I thought I had posted this.
Rather than do the ablative paint antifoul, I had Coppercoat put on. Basically powdered copper suspended in epoxy resin and painted onto the stripped hull.

At some time in her history, Frank (as Rainbow) was owned by the RAF Sailing Club. They had painted red and blue (RAF colors) boot stripes at the waterline. Rather than remove these, someone had just painted antifoul over them. For 30 years… Being at and above the waterline, the paint didn’t “ablate”, so it just built up and was a bitch to remove. Below is a video from January 18th, 2014 when I had her on the hard at Gosport Premier Marina for a refit. This was (I think) my first look at her out of the water – you can see the thick band of blue which was slapped on to cover up the Red White Blue paint. Until I had to remove it, I’d never paid any attention to it.

Anyway, in Texas copper coating is rare as hen’s teeth, so I had all sorts of odd looks. I bought the kits from the Florida dealer – it’s a UK product. 😉 Great support from the dealer.

I like it! Now she’s in the water it has turned blue/green. Should last 10 or more years.