Re: Speed coatings and growth prohibiting Bottom paints
I still gotta come back at ya, Supreme Commander..
Have you taken a look at their website..?? They started out hard core "industrial".. Big boy stuff--- like bridge building, stretch forming of aluminum for the aircraft industry (read: Boeing), water injection pumps, industry coatings for transporting crude oil, coatings for the insides of grain and cement silos, waste and water treatment plants, hydro plants to reduce rust deterioration and zebra mussel build up, etc., etc..
Evidently, they've "branched out" and gone into the Marine bottom coatings for both speed, as well as, growth-inhibiting coatings.. Their speed coatings are well know and used by multiple world champion hydroplane racers and
world record holders.. Growth prohibing..?? Their site claims, "Barnacles are readily removed by periodic brushing of the surfaces coated with Wearlon Super F-3M.. Presently, barnacle and salt water bio-fouling resistance are under intense study at Battelle Laboratory and Florida Institute of Technology"..
Price-wise, their product is coming in at least 1/3rd the price less, (per gallon), than all the other well known and highly market "name" brands seen in all the boating, sailing and fishing magazines and advertisings.. According to Practicle Sailor here in Sarasota, all of the "name" manufacturers bottom paints last 9 to 18 months, at best, on an average.. (maybe 1 or 2 went to "kinda", 24 months.. but that's a huge stretch)..
Concerning "Top of the Line" boats coming "off the assembly line" with Wearlon's speed / growth-probibiting coatings / paints applied..?? Name one boat manufacturer that produces boats with any coating / growth-prohibiting paint applied to her hull as she rolls off the assembly line.. None.. (but please, correct me if I'm wrong).. So that's a pretty uneducated "claim and statement" on your part..
With the Gulf temperature here in S.W. Florida hovering around 84 to 87 degrees, 7 days of your boat sitting at the dock and you have barnacles.. Any vessel owner that truly loves and cares for their boat, yaht, sailing vessel, offshore fisherman, professional fishing guide, etc. has a diver "hand cleaning" their bottoms every 14 days, max----not the "once a month " or "once a season " cleaning that you read about up north.. When my little boat is at the dock, at least once a week during the summer, I'm pulling over at a sandbar or beach to wipe down the bottom.. The barnacles, algae and slime grows faster here than elephant grass in S.E.Asia..
For a land-locked state, Vermont has it's rivers and a few lakes but, your boating on freshwater and your "season" and "lifetime" there is 3, maybe 4 months a year..?? (well, ice fishing in sub zero weather, that's not boating though)..
We're the sub-tropics here.. Boating 365 a year.. Any product to slow down the round-the-clock growth and increase mileage, lessen wear and tear on my engine and cost $85 to $100 less per gallon than the "name" manufacturers----- I'm "looking twice and asking around about it"..
