[Fleet9] Bottom paint

[Gabe]

Hello sailors,

 

I have a question and an offer.

 

Question:  How much paint does it take to put two coats of bottom paint on a
Catalina 36.  I have a MKI but I would imagine that would not make much
difference.

 

Offer:  I am thinking it will take about 2 ½ gallons of bottom paint to put
two coats.  I want to use Ameron ABC3 ablative paint.  This paint is used by
many of the tug boats in the bay and by ships in the US Navy.  The Navy gets
five years between haulouts with this paint.  The only down side is that it
only comes in 5 gallon cans.    So if I only need 2.5 gallons for two coats
then I will have some to sell.  Would anyone be interested in sharing the
cost of a can of this paint with me?  Five gallons cost about $540 with tax,
so $270 for half a can.

 

Now that we have that out of the way
 who wants to help me sand the bottom
of the boat???

 

Sean Gabe

S/V Rangitoto

 

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From: fleet9-bounces at catalina36fleet9.org
[mailto:fleet9-bounces at catalina36fleet9.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Berman
Sent: Monday, October 19, 2009 11:27 PM
To: fleet9 at catalina36fleet9.org
Subject: [Fleet9] boat lost and fleet week

 

Good reason to check your ground tackle.    Yikes!

 

 

This happened in Banderas Bay, Mexico last week




the guy in the boat
survived


.but the boat a Coronado 25 is gone
.

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_PnfkioWwM
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_PnfkioWwM&feature=player_embedded>
&feature=player_embedded

 

 

also


 

http://www.fogcty.com/jeff/fleetweek09/

 

it’s an executable slide show I made, it will play on PC’s just fine.
Enjoy!

 

jeff

 

 

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