Cruiser Uno anti fouling question

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Hi,

On the tin I thought it said "re-immerse within 24 hours" which I assumed meant that you need to apply it within the 24 hour period before going in but looking at their website here http://www.yachtpaint.com/gbr/diy/products/antifouling/cruiser-uno-eu.aspx it says "Can be re-immersed within 24 hours" which is somewhet different. Can anyone tell me what "Can be re-immersed within 24 hours" means in this context ?

Thanks,

Boo2
 
Exactly what it says. You do not have to wait for 24 hours before immersing. The actual minimum time depends on the temperature when applied - details on the product Datasheet.
 
Tranona said:
Exactly what it says. You do not have to wait for 24 hours before immersing. The actual minimum time depends on the temperature when applied - details on the product Datasheet.
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So I waited till the last day for no useful purpose then ? Bah ! Anyway, I've been delayed while the engineer sorts a morse controller out for me so it's lucky it doesn't need to be put on withing 24 hours of immersion. Was it the old TBT afs that were fussy about that ? Must have got the idea from somewhere...

Boo2
 
Boo2 said:
So I waited till the last day for no useful purpose then ? Bah ! Anyway, I've been delayed while the engineer sorts a morse controller out for me so it's lucky it doesn't need to be put on withing 24 hours of immersion. Was it the old TBT afs that were fussy about that ? Must have got the idea from somewhere...

Boo2
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Long time ago that you had to immerse quickly after AF. Most now can be done months before launching.
 
Boo2 said:
Hi,

On the tin I thought it said "re-immerse within 24 hours" which I assumed meant that you need to apply it within the 24 hour period before going in but looking at their website here http://www.yachtpaint.com/gbr/diy/products/antifouling/cruiser-uno-eu.aspx it says "Can be re-immersed within 24 hours" which is somewhet different. Can anyone tell me what "Can be re-immersed within 24 hours" means in this context ?

Thanks,

Boo2
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And if you'd clicked on the link to the product data sheet ( top LH corner of the web page you refer to) you would have got the minimum times before immersion at various temps (8 hrs to 4 hrs) spelled out together with the maximum recommended time ( 6 months) the the minimum recommended lifting times, the touch dry times vs temperature and the recommended max and min overcoating times vs temperature.

Details of surface preparation , coverage rates and recommended wet and dry film thickness.

One thing about International Yachtpaints is that they do make all the technical bumph readily available on the website.
 
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Hi

2 years ago I aniti-fouled early and the boat was left for approx 8 weeks before launch. One side of the boat was close to a wall and the other open to the south and subject to sun (and rain). On lifting the boat at the enf of the year the south facing side was badly fouled and the paint not much erroded, the other side was mucky in normal end of season condition.

I can only assume that the south facing paint had "baked" and had become ineffective.

So I now try to get into the water within a week of the paint going on.

Good luck
 
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I read it as that if you dry out (e.g. bilge-keelers etc ) that the a/f has to be re-immersed within 24 hours. Nothing about application times.

Regards

Donald
 
Aja said:
I read it as that if you dry out (e.g. bilge-keelers etc ) that the a/f has to be re-immersed within 24 hours. Nothing about application times.

Regards

Donald
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Read the Product Data Sheet http://www.yachtpaint.com/MPYACMDatasheets/Cruiser_Uno_EU+eng+A4+Y+20141215.pdf


Nothing about re-immersionafter dying out in there. It talks about drying times and minimum, and maximum, immersion times after application.

The sales blurb says that it can be, not must be, re-immersed within 24 hours. Meaning that having hauled the boat out and antifouled it, it can be stuck back in the water within 24 hours ... the exact minimum times are dependent on temperature and are set out fully in the Product Data Sheet

Read the Product Data Sheet.
 
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