TBT Antifouiling and dessalinator\watermaker

[fstbttms]

Originally Posted by Alan Mighty

Maybe "incompatible" is too strong a word also?

From the Sea Hawk Tin Booster tech sheet:

Do not mix with non-tin based paints. It could cause the paint to gel.

Originally Posted by Alan Mighty

I've met many cruisers who add 3 - 5% (by volume) of TBT additive to brand name copper-based (and pesticide-based) ablative antifoul. They claim the additive doubles or triples the effective antifouling life with any adhesion issues. Works with hard antifoul paints too.

If I had a dollar for the claim of every kitchen sink chemist I've heard over the last twenty one years, I wouldn't have to clean boat bottoms for a living any more.

[SV THIRD DAY]

The hot dock talk around Mexico was to add ground-up Cayenne pepper to your bottom paint to help keep the barnacles off. But of course what would it really matter because the folks talking about that were the once that never took their boat out anymore anyway...ha ha ha

[Alan Mighty]

Originally Posted by fstbttms

If I had a dollar for the claim of every kitchen sink chemist I've heard over the last twenty one years, I wouldn't have to clean boat bottoms for a living any more.

If everyone had been using a TBT additive, you would not have been able to make your living cleaning boat bottoms, right?

[fstbttms]

Originally Posted by Alan Mighty

If everyone had been using a TBT additive, you would not have been able to make your living cleaning boat bottoms, right?

If it worked as well as you claim, that might be true. Yet here I am, along with thousands of of others. And of course, you ignore what the major manufacturer of TbT paints has to say about the subject.

Originally Posted by SV THIRD DAY

The hot dock talk around Mexico was to add ground-up Cayenne pepper to your bottom paint to help keep the barnacles off.

The oldest wive's tale in the book.