Mid season anti-foul report

[Dave_Snelson]

I did promise to come back on here with a report on the DS antifoul with copper powder.

Remember this?

The good news is that there is no slime, no weed, no barnacles, no nutt'n.

The bad news is that I mixed it too think (too much copper powder) and the "roughness" of the surface does slow the boat down and uses noticably more fuel.

Conclusion? Success! Just use about half the Cu powder next time. And that amount would be just enough during continuous mixing to slighly shade the A/F Grey to copper, but not as much as you see here on this piccy.

 

[Deleted User YDKXO]

Dave, whats DS antifoul and where do you buy copper powder?

 

[DepSol]

Can you updateus on the application amounts used type of antifouling where toget the copper and how much etc etc.

Or Brendan can just post the url for the link /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

[Dave_Snelson]

Where to get the stuff...

DS antifouls is.....Dave_Snelson antifoul - none other than Interspeed Ultra with 350 micron copper dust added. The copper dust is available from Ronald Britton and you should phone and ask for Jadwiga (pron. Yadweega). I think its about £60-70 per kilo.

 

[davedpc]

How's the legs? Not the ones out of shot in the photo above. Dave.

 

[Dave_Snelson]

I guess you will remember that I didn't use copper on these, instead I used HOT chilli powder. Again, no fouling at all /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif