same amount of bottom paint?

[Jim]

Last year I painted the bottom for the first time. I put two coats on with a small nap roller. It took less than a gal. of bottom paint. This year I used a longer nap roller, and one coat took almost the whole gallon. My questions are, has anyone else done this,and does this mean that one coat will do it? Did I do some wrong? Is one gal. enough for a 25 ft. boat? Thanks for any help.

 

[Sean Coerse]

Paint

I use I gallon to put 2 coats on my H240. It takes the whole gallon. The longer nap roller probably applied it thicker than the short nap. I would think two thinner coats would be smoother and dry faster, however I don't think it will make a difference on the level of barnacle and slime protection.

 

[R. A. Brown]

Paint Weight

Just remember, when you hoist that gallon of paint and use it, you are adding that much weight to the boat. A single coat, in my experience, is just under a half gallon, say, about one and a half pints.