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Cavitating
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Initially Posted - 04/03/2010 :  20:04:46  Show Profile
I am thinking about bottom painting my 250.
I will be using Pettit 699 Sandles Primer and then I will be using an ablative bottom paint that covers about 400 sq.ft per gallon.
I have no clue how much paint to buy per coat. I am thinking to apply two or three coats. It depends on price per coat. Any ideas how much paint I have to buy per coat?
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Dave Bristle
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Response Posted - 04/04/2010 :  09:23:33  Show Profile
My C-25 used about 2/3 - 3/4 gallon per coat. I would generally thin the paint just a little--especially on a warm day when it would thicken up in the roller pan. A good strategy is to put on one coat using a color other than your preferred, and then top that with two coats of your favorite color. The first is your "signal coat" that it's time to add some paint. It's also useful to add a coat to the leading edge of the keel, and to the rudder--the two places where ablative wears away fastest.

BTW, what were you doing that you've come all this way without bottom paint? I only ask because I wonder if you need it...
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Cavitating
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Response Posted - 04/04/2010 :  16:19:14  Show Profile
Dave, thanks for your response.
We have the boat in St. Petersburg, Florida on the trailer at the marina. My wife and I are tired of launching and retrieving the boat every time we use it. We use the boat all year round and some times we would go for a quick sail but just to think about the whole ordeal we end up not doing it.
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delliottg
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Response Posted - 04/04/2010 :  17:55:55  Show Profile  Visit delliottg's Homepage
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">some times we would go for a quick sail but just to think about the whole ordeal we end up not doing it. <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

That's exactly why Rita & I found a marina. The 1-1/2 - 2 hours rigging and launching in the morning wasn't so bad, but the 2-1/2 hours recovering, and getting set to trailer again was killing us. Especially if it had been a long day. More than once we ended up recovering & rigging in the dark, in the rain. Yee-haw.

We're getting ready to paint our C-250, and I'm going to buy two quarts of red (the warning layer), and a gallon of blue. I expect the red will be a bit of a stretch, and to have some leftover from the blue. I plan to do as Dave suggests, a contrasting color under the main color, with a couple of extra coats on the the leading edge of the keel, rudder, underside of the keel, the bow, and where the pads contact the boat on the trailer.

We're going to be using Pettit Trinidad SR. Friends are reporting 2-5 seasons with it up here, and I definitely don't want to go through cleaning the hull again like this last time.
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Response Posted - 04/04/2010 :  19:47:50  Show Profile
I'll also suggest an ablative with an anti-slime additive--many have them now. I've been pleased with their performance--I'm not in FL, but without that, boats up here can end up with lawns growing on the bottoms.

You will love having your boat in the water!
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