Haul Out and antifoul

South Pacific Familyadventure 2008
Claes Brodin
Wed 22 Feb 2023 17:01
Already scheduled for this season was haul out and antifoul at Cantieri Mulas shipyard in Arbatax 1,5 hrs south of Santa Maria de Navarrese. Last time was in Lofoten northern Norway where antifoul chosen was tinbased hardpaint used by the whole Norwegian fishingfleet. In the EU tinbased paint is forbidden (Norway is not in the EU) so this time we chose International VC offshore, a cupperbased hardpaint.
The trip south was delightful with flat seas and occassional dolphins in company with Dora Mac and allthough the "haul out chamber" was very narrow and DM without bowthruster the whole haul out was uneventful. It was interesting to note how parts of the bow was severely overgrown with barnacles and seaweed which is explained by this local area being painted with Swedish ecopaint after steel repairs in Gothenburgh (after haul out and tinbased antifoul in Norway) which gives a direct comparison of ecopaint and tinbased bottompaint after 2 years (then of course the environmental perspective from a satelliteview is much more important)

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