Barrier Coating & Thru-Hulls

[Doug B.]

Getting ready to barrier coat the hull this season any suggestions on removing or not removing the thru-hull fittings first?

 

[Joe]

Did it last year on my 80-H27

Last year I had her sandblasted. After thorough dry out, all blisters were filled, the hull and keel faired and 7 gallons of Interprotect 2000 applied. It wasn't necessary to replace the through hulls. They were all bronze and in great shape. I did replace gate valves with sea cocks. If I may recommend, since you're doing all this work, use Micron CSC bottom paint. I used green as a first coat and then 2 coats of shark white. It held up great! No need to repaint until the green base coat shows. Boat US has a sale on both: $44.95 a gal. for Interprotect 2000 and $119 a gal. for Micron csc. Good luck...it's worth it.

 

[Chris Tadych]

Barrier Coat

I too redid the bottom on my 1980 H27. I sanded the hull down to orginal gel coat(one hell of a job since there were 18 years of bottom paint on it)and applied 2 coats of VC-Tar followed by 2 coats of VC-17. I sail in Lake Michigan and the bottom had minimal growth after 5 months in the water. The great thing now is that all I have to do is clean the bottom lightly and apply another coat of VC-17 and I am ready to go for the season. I did not remove the thru-hulls to do this.

 

[Doug B.]

Now thats Coating!

Joe7 gallons of 2000, how many mils did you get out of that?The Interlux estimate was 2 gal for 10 mils, My estimate was 4 gal for 10 mils.Doug B.

 

[Lou Potente]

Coal Tar and VCl7M

Ditto to Chris remarks. Worked out fine H-27 l983 on Lake Champlain