CopperCoating The Hull

Here's the Visqueen tent we set up to create a warmer (12-14 degrees) environment.

This worked extremely well, although there were some diesel fumes ... I had a CO meter inside it. It stayed resolutely at zero.

Applying the CopperCoat was a fraught business. We started about mid-day and finished about midnight. And then had to stay up a lot of the night to monitor the diesel heater as the outside temperature was expected to drop below 8 degrees ...

We just kept adding coats until we'd used up 7 of the 8 'doses'. One was kept back to do the shoe of the keel and the rudder. We also saved a bit by stopping at the waterline rather than using it as a boot top as well. We definitely got four coats on everywhere and possibly five - certainly over large areas of the hull.

The first coat was epoxy only (no copper powder), and it was a bit thick in a few small patches. We ended up with drips ...

After that, we thinned the mix and rolled it on carefully - spreading it out as much as we could.

It set up overnight and was completely hard and dry after a day or two.