Practical Boat Owner

PROJECT BOAT RESTORATION Choosing and applying antifouling

After three hot, hard days spent scraping the bottom of Maximus, our Maxi 84, we were faced with the bare epoxy. It wasn’t especially pretty to look at – a patchy mix of blue and grey with splodges of gelcoat filler. However, it was satisfying to know we had a clean palette to begin with and this was a job we wouldn’t have to do for another six or seven years.

Wearing full PPE we’d scraped the paint off the keel, collected the debris on a ground tarpaulin and disposed of it in

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