Hi everyone and welcome to another episode from
Luckyfish. In today's video, we're going to review
the performance of our Coppercoat Antifouling
after almost six years. I hope this video clears
up a lot of the misunderstanding about Coppercoat
out there and encourages more boat owners to
consider using this environmentally friendly and
cost effective product. At the end of the video,
we'll give you our prediction for how much useful
life we've got left in our Coppercoat bottom. We
have no association with Coppercoat, but we're
always happy to promote a product we believe in.
Okay, let's go.
I'm Zaya and we have been sailing across the
Atlantic ocean and around the Caribbean for the
last five years and I'm Stewart and I'm passionate
about sailing and teaching sailing. And just
recently our crew has expanded with the arrival of
this little guy, Leo.
When we bought Luckyfish in South Africa, the
first thing we did was grind off the ablative
antifouling and switch over to Coppercoat .
Although the product cost us $1,700 for 12 liters,
which is between two and three times the cost of
an ablative like micron extra, it has turned out
to be one of the best decisions we made and paid
for itself in the first three years. You can check
out our step by step application video here in the
link above or in the description below.
Regular hull cleaning is needed on all antifouling systems
and Coppercoat
is no exception, but with some important
differences, depending on where the boat is
located, we have found that wiping the hull over
with a ScotchBrite pad needs to be done every
month or even every two weeks in high growth
areas. We learned this the hard way while in
Sarasota, Florida, three years ago, sitting here
We're going to Lido Cay
We're going to anchor over there for an hour or two
Its a beautiful day. We're going to scrub
the barnacles off the bottom
Hopefully they come off easy. Its been sitting here in
in Sarasota
in the bay for 5 weeks almost
and we havn't de-slimed it which we should of
every two weeks and
and now we're about to pay the price. There is quite
a bit of growth on it.
Sarasota is possibly the marine
growth capital of the world. The Harbor is
constantly fed with nutrient rich runoff, warm
temperatures and limited flushing from the tides
Coppercoat card, because it's a bit of a trick to
it all. I think we're working it out, but it's not
an issue. If you think vertical growth or it comes
off clean, nice sharp, broad one, like this, just
nice flow into a stove. Get it right back there.
Literally back to the congregation, just a few
little bits of don't curious crap, but not much.
It's really quite good. I'm quite impressed. That
was pretty bad drug worst I've ever seen from
Florida. No surprise. Then that practical sailor
conduct all their antifouling tests in that Harbor
and regularly file all products in their testing.
We lift the boat on a morning there for a month or
two without wiping the Howell and wham barnacles
set up home and no time and grew like topsy. How
is this possible? The key to success with
Coppercoat is to remove the slime layer that
forms before the barnacles start. The slime seems
to
shield the barnacles from the toxic metallic
Coppercoat and gives the barnacles in opportunity
to attach to the Howell. From there, they grow in
size and number rapidly. The remedy is to
regularly wipe the slime off with a ScotchBrite
pad, which is a very easy task. Leave it too long.
Then you have to resort to more drastic means like
a metal scraper because Coppercoat has a hard
surface. The metal scraper does no harm to the
coaching. What happened to her? Check out the
video above or in the description below for the
full story on our biomedical problems in the
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grow. Thank you. There has only been one other
occasion where we have experienced barnacle
growth. We sailed 3000 miles nonstop from
Ascension Island to Barbados and it was towards
the end of that 23 day crossing. We notice
gooseneck barnacles, beginning to grow above the
waterline and in places on the Coppercoat , we
used a cunning trick to remove them and explained
it all in the video, linked above and in the
description below. Okay, well back to the prison
time, it's been over three months since I last
wiped the whole for reasons. You'll see in a
moment, once again, here in the warm lagoon waters
off
Placentia Belize I was about how much growth we
were getting after weeks on anchor and self
isolation in known crocodile and Sharky waters. I
plucked up the courage to plunge in wipe off the
Coppercoat and have a closer look at the house
damage we sustained from running a ground on the
reef, but after five weeks here, this is probably
the most spectacular morning that I've seen. It's
absolutely calm. And under the boat, it's like a
swimming pool guy to go down and have a quick look
at the skate and port Hala damage on the kill.
Their first opportunity since we hit that brief of
itself, a long cocoa and, uh, isolated. The news
is all good. Let's go and have a look. I didn't
look bad. Then he's the keel. Didn't look too bad
either. I've seen the bottom here. Little bit of
weed sand. Very interesting to be honest, that I
repeated the Allegheny country, although we've
never seen jelly, sting rice, probably the old
shock, but nicely all we see a dolphins which is
comforting scrubbing. The Coppercoat is one of the
great pleasures on Luckyfish the slime just wipes
clean off and best of all, it doesn't shade,
clouds of toxic guarantee. Failing into the
waterway. When you're doing it, just look at how
easily the growth wipes off after two or three
months since the last scrub ablative anti fails
really should be a thing of the past. In
my view, and folks who knock Coppercoat simply
don't understand the product. And it takes me
about 15 or 20 minutes per whole side or an hour
or two and total to finish both holes, rodders and
Kiehl's. So come and see a fan growing on our log.
This is the last of it. Just about to clean up the
starboard side. Visible visibility is not as good
as let's go and see if we can stay top on that
fan. So after six years, how much longer do we
think our cup of will last before we need to re ?
And if it's a hard coaching that doesn't ablate or
wear away, why would we need to it all? Each
year, we slipped Luckyfish out of the water and
do our maintenance. But before she goes back in
the house, 600 grit, wet and dry. This is to
expose fresh metallic Coppercoat. We have found
the sanding can be sped up by using 400 grit, but
of course, sanding down does thin down the
thickness of your remaining coating and limit the
lifetime of the product. we lost sand at the
Coppercoat and put the boat back in the water in
Rio Dorsey. What Amala during January this year,
I'll take you for a quick look at this Coppercoat
. I noticed quite a few people have been asking
about how it's standing up after five years or so.
It's had four good
sand downs. Now with 400 grit sandpaper, you can
see the rudder here. We're just about through the
orange peel, but on the rest of the house is still
quite a bit of a dumpling. You can just see it
there. So, I mean that tells us that there's still
quite a few microns of Coppercoat left on there. I
think it's going to last us another eight to 10
years, to be honest, which is a, it's a great
product. You can just see how good that hole
looks. A little bit of patching there. You can see
previous seasons, just paint, color on popper, ,
no issue so there you have it. We're totally
delighted with our Coppercoat bottom and expect
to get 14 or 15 years useful life out of a single
application. That's a massive cost saving and it's
good for the environment too. If you enjoyed the
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