sailaboutvic
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It brought back memories of when we did Isabelle ,
The ùear you sold you other boat ,
This will be the last one we do , the work is too much for us now , no longer 40/50s
Copper coat , not again
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The ùear you sold you other boat ,
This will be the last one we do , the work is too much for us now , no longer 40/50s
jordanbasset
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Elessar
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If there is any chance at all of rain or condensation in the next 48 hours put a masking tape drip channel all the way around the boat just an inch above the water line. If it gets wet it will be ruined and it looks lovely!
Take time on the drip channel. No gaps. And it must be away from the boat all the way around.
geem
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Yep, we did that. If the air temperature is high enough, circa 30degC you will be ok in 24hrs. It will cure faster with lots of heat
Yngmar
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Hairdryer if you need the cradle leg patches to cure faster between coats - top tip I copied from a professional applicator 
sailaboutvic
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Thanks for all the tips guys , one side is protected with plastic cover , any changes of rain we just buy another 14 mts and do the other side after all that hard work not taken any chances .
So far weather in Sicily looking good till mid day Monday by then the last coat would had been on for 60 hours , should be safe by them , its 25/27c day time sunny and 24c night .
Next week the weather is all over the place with rain / showers/ sunny period and wind if we find a gulp in between that lot we finish the the rudder patches and Keel , if I can find the energy to day might do the keel , one more job out of the way .
EDIT
Check this morning , and it's gone off to touch , but just notice a couple of small runs , maybe before she goes in we can remove them when we lightly run her down
So far weather in Sicily looking good till mid day Monday by then the last coat would had been on for 60 hours , should be safe by them , its 25/27c day time sunny and 24c night .
Next week the weather is all over the place with rain / showers/ sunny period and wind if we find a gulp in between that lot we finish the the rudder patches and Keel , if I can find the energy to day might do the keel , one more job out of the way .
EDIT
Check this morning , and it's gone off to touch , but just notice a couple of small runs , maybe before she goes in we can remove them when we lightly run her down
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Elessar
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Unless they are above the water line ignore/forget about them.
If you really must sand them down do it now then if you sand through the bit alongside the run you can fix it when you do the keel etc.
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Yngmar
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Where in Sicily are you btw? We're in Licata now.
sailaboutvic
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We in Siracusa a small Sicilian yard , quite friend , but only one guy speak limited English so you can imagine it all hands and drawings to ask any thing.
I need to ask you something so I pm you
sailaboutvic
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As promise the cost of copper coating a 42 foot boat .
180 a lift .x3
60 pressure wash
400 to have the old AF removed
1500 copper coat
Hard standing for 21 days free as the yard work five days to remover the old Antifouling they said we could had the other 16 days
Bits and bobs , paint trays ,rollers , tape, cleaner, so on 110
Epoxy for keel 200
Total 2810 euros
That's a good sum of money but if you consider we would had still have to get hauled out to Antifoul plus the antifoul paint bit and bobs 750 euros .
the real cost is just over 2k
We just have to wait four days now before we launch .
180 a lift .x3
60 pressure wash
400 to have the old AF removed
1500 copper coat
Hard standing for 21 days free as the yard work five days to remover the old Antifouling they said we could had the other 16 days
Bits and bobs , paint trays ,rollers , tape, cleaner, so on 110
Epoxy for keel 200
Total 2810 euros
That's a good sum of money but if you consider we would had still have to get hauled out to Antifoul plus the antifoul paint bit and bobs 750 euros .
the real cost is just over 2k
We just have to wait four days now before we launch .
Resolution
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Thanks to Elessar for some super helpful advice.
