Copper antifoul on wooden hulls

[tcm]

Re: Apologies...

Keith is a nice chap, the only problem was it dint work on our boat, tho it was fast big planing boat with presuambly lots of hydraulic force etc but fine with smaller boat at displacement speeds

The adhesive is incredibly strong, though you can just about rip old pieces of foil off. Yes, you're left with the adhesive but i just painted a/f over it.

Nonetheless i am a bit wary of doing too-clever stuff to a wooden boat, as it cd thwart any drying out etc.

 

[reiner]

Thanks tcm !
Maybe I should order a square foot and give it a small scale try first. On a plywood boat, which is well painted with a two component paint, I wouldnt hesitate to use it either, but not
on any traditionally planked boat. You will inevitably trap
air underneath in seams and cracks and rot might start.
This is not a problem under conventional sheathing, where the
copper is not insulated from the wood by adheasive but can corode, so the copper oxyde will prevent rot. Also you have the tarpaper inbetween, which trouville mentions. This tarpaper is actually newspaper, saturated with stockholm tar.
We took off old copper sheathing of fishingboats, where you could still read 30 year old articles !