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    Jul 07, 2022 6 minutes

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    PAINT & ANTIFOULING

    Antifouling incompatibility problem

    I wonder if you could Q help with a suspected antifoul compatibility issue on my 2011 Beneteau First 40 which I race and cruise in the Irish Sea and West of Scotland.

    I bought the boat in 2017 from the second owner who was based in Nieuport, Belgium. He’d bought it in 2014 from Sunsail in Port Solent where it had been part of their charter fleet.

    I’m having problems finding a compatible antifoul to the one that seems to be the base coat below the waterline. I’ve applied a cream-coloured layer of International Ultra 300 antifouling but that has not stuck well, despite extensive preparation and application of Primocon undercoat to large areas of the surface.

    There’s a brown layer applied by the yard

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