Where to buy antifouling

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Just seen a very good deal on line from Marine Megastore but the name rings bells about previous threads on here. There are so many chandlers with similar names I so I wouldn't want to blame one for another's failings. Would you trust them? If you don't want to go on record with your experiences, please PM me.
 
Just bought my preferred brand of antifouling from an ebay site, delivered by UPS the next day - brilliant service. And, nearly £40 less than quoted by the local stockist.
 
maxi said:
Just bought my preferred brand of antifouling from an ebay site, delivered by UPS the next day - brilliant service. And, nearly £40 less than quoted by the local stockist.
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Who won't be there in the next couple of years as we buy more on the net

We may be saving a bit of cash by internet shopping, but what will we lose when the local chandleries disappear?
 
GrahamD said:
Who won't be there in the next couple of years as we buy more on the net

We may be saving a bit of cash by internet shopping, but what will we lose when the local chandleries disappear?
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My marina chandlers sells on the net as well, they will even allow you to pick it up at the shop.........thats what they should all do if they think that the internet is a threat to their business.

Tom
 
snowleopard said:
Just seen a very good deal on line from Marine Megastore but the name rings bells about previous threads on here. There are so many chandlers with similar names I so I wouldn't want to blame one for another's failings. Would you trust them? If you don't want to go on record with your experiences, please PM me.
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This is a good deal.
 
snowleopard said:
Just seen a very good deal on line from Marine Megastore but the name rings bells about previous threads on here. There are so many chandlers with similar names I so I wouldn't want to blame one for another's failings. Would you trust them? If you don't want to go on record with your experiences, please PM me.
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No experiences of them, but the subject company is definitely the one which is so poorly thought of in these circles, so would give them a wide berth.

Yachtmail are the biggest seller of A/F around here, and sell a very high volume to at a low price.
 
snowleopard said:
Just seen a very good deal on line from Marine Megastore but the name rings bells about previous threads on here. There are so many chandlers with similar names I so I wouldn't want to blame one for another's failings. Would you trust them? If you don't want to go on record with your experiences, please PM me.
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shepherd marine are small boat agents for Jotun a/f & paints.
Jotun actually works
 
sailorman said:
Jotun actually works
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snowleopard said:
Not where I moor. Thick barnacle growth by mid-season.
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sailorman said:
have you tried Jotun then
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????

That's exactly what he's talking about.

And it doesn't work brilliantly where I am either. Not bad, but no better than others. I use it because it's cheaper and I like to think I'm getting one over on the expensive yotty suppliers by using fishing boat paint; I'm sure it works very well in some places, but not on the Itchen it seems.

Pete
 
AIDY said:
at that price it must be worth a punt.... dependant on how many litres you require
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or dependant on how much you want them to filch from your CC and only promise to deliver.

They use "customers" to finance their operation.

Have you read the thread about them?

Run a mile.
 
I always use the chandlers on Lower Quay Road in Fareham, Percy M. See Ltd., ask for Luke or James.
It's completely bonkers, but they are hardly ever beaten on price. They knock Force4 & the Marine Superstore into a cocked hat for service & back up, & they are both blokes who know exactly what they are doing, not spotty teenage layabouts who work in a shop because they messed up at school. I wouldn't spend a quid for a faceless delivery from the internet.
I have no connection other than as a customer, just a good old fasioned honest opinion.
 
Slightly off topic, I always seem to end up with some left at the bottom of a can which I can't bear to throw away (at that price). I had a tidy up in my shed this spring and scooped tins from five :eek: tins of varying age into one, making more than 4 fifths of a (2.5l) can. It's a bit thick so I reckon a few hundred mls of thinner and I'll have a full one; next year's af bill ought to be somewhat less than usual. I expect it will be just as useless as keeping the barnacles at bay as all the others I've tried since the demise of TBT.
 
MissIsle said:
I always use the chandlers on Lower Quay Road in Fareham, Percy M. See Ltd., ask for Luke or James.

I have no connection other than as a customer, just a good old fasioned honest opinion.
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My boat doesn't seem to need much chandlery nowadays so I don't go in there often but the last time I did, after an absence of more than a year, Luke looked up and immediately greeted me by name. You don't get that sort of service in the big chandlery warehouses.

However, I do think your description of the assistants in Force 4 and Marine Superstore is unjustified and unfair. I've always found them willing and as helpful as they can be. They just lack experience of the boating industry but that's not their fault. I expect they are quite low-paid, so as soon as they can they're off to a better-paid job (and who can blame them?) and then they are replaced by someone else with no experience.
 
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