I FAILED! 6 DAYS IN A COMMERCIAL YARD TO REDO TIARE’S ANTIFOUL!

The old adage
Never enough time to do it right.
But always enough to do it again.
Damn.

Every now and then you got to admit to a mistake, stop crying and deal with it.

And this is what this story is about. How to blow 1200 dollars, or as I like see it How to keep fit and help support a local business.

All this started a couple of years ago when I began  a big above and below waterline overhaul on Tiare, removing thru hulls,  replacing the remaining metal thru hulls with composite,  manually scraping both hulls to remove 15 years of anti-foul, repairing the dings and scratches, sanding it all smooth, twice. Repainting the topsides and then multiple coats of epoxy barrier coat below the water line.

Now early on I had researched the paint system I needed. It was to be all one company and all products working together.

A few months after launch I started noticing that bits of the epoxy undercoat were showing through the anti-foul.

And to top it all off, this year was the worst year for barnacle growth the local fishermen had seen. Ever.  Historical levels of barnacle!!

A butt clench, wallet shrinking moment as I realised what I had done,  and that I needed to haul out, and not my usual thrifty “between the tides” type of haul-out, but a proper haul out, where you actually pay someone money, 

Once out of the water, I scrape off the barnacles, water-blast the hulls, then hand scrape all while the cement the barnacles use to “concrete” themselves on with, I had some help with this, (Thanks Nagi and Tom) Then hand scrape off all the new old anti-foul, then repair all the little scratches that the scraping had created,  then sand it all again, water blast again, then apply a coat of the recommended vinyl barrier paint, wait a day, then apply the new new anti-foul.

After checking with the paint company they also recommended, along with the  anti-foul I originally planned to use, to also apply a vinyl barrier coat before antifouling, You know, just to be 100% sure that everything sticks. Actually I think they were just trying to make it idiot proof.

And this is where the problem lay, I had used different paint companies for the epoxy barrier paint and for the anti-foul. Originally it was going to be one company and all their chemistries work together, no worries, but by the time i got around to buying the anti-foul I had forgotten this rather  crucial  bit  information. Ouch.

So here we are, Tiare is about to come into the local fishing boatyard, its a bit windy but thats ok as I have Tom in the tender to push Tiare around.

The costs start when the lines get thrown

There it is, six days and 1200 Dollars

What I came away with?

Well a thinner waistline and a lighter wallet for sure, but I now have  the proper paint system applied, and the knowledge that I also have an extra protective vinyl barrier coat on Tiare. Which is a good thing.