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Originally Posted by Ulladh
As Denise wrote, slime is going to happen fresh or old paint. Go sailing and most sloughs off.
If the bottom paint looks halfway good I would wait until fall haulout, let the hull fully dry over winter, then think about your bottom coat options.
Depending on how the bottom looks after removing loose paint, it may be an option to just recoat with an ablative next spring. Or remove all the old ablative and use a hard coat.
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Thanks, Ulladh. I know you have local knowledge. Can you confirm no barnacles in Essington?
Just as a reminder, the current paint is epoxy based hard paint, except the rudder which was replaced last year and coated with ablative. The activity of the epoxy hard coat is shot, but the paint is in pretty good cosmetic shape aside for a few chips that I hope to touch up during the survey.
We're still on track for survey March 25 and, assuming successful, bringing her downriver on March 26 weather permitting.