Possible New Bottom Paint?

Good find!
I'd like it on my windshield, car and boat
And, my dog hates rain, so get some for her as well.
 
At a cost of $60 a quart for the bottom coat and $100 a quart for the top coat and know a coat on my boat takes roughly 3 gallons rolled on that is only 12 quarts of $1920. Depending on how long it lasts, if you pick up 5 gallons an hour less fuel use and it will last 100 hours bottom use, you would certainly save money. at the gas end. Depending on how much fuel keeps going up maybe significantly. If it is reducing strain on drive train components that helps to. I would be interested in knowing the anti-fouling capabilities of it. If nothing will grow on it, that will make it worth it right there, fuel savings or not.

Edit: I just read a little more on it and a quart supposedly covers 43 s/f. If I am not mistaken a gallon of Micron 66 gets about 300 s/f so it would take 7 quarts to get the same coverage? That would be a tad expensive. Especially if it only lasts a season.
 
Nothing new. It's been around for years. In fact, Bill Clinton was coated with it. :)

(I'd like to have a few gallons of it though. Has to do wonders for fuel mileage.)

Bob
 
My money has always been coated with that stuff, just slips away.
 
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Originally posted by rnbenton

Nothing new. It's been around for years. In fact, Bill Clinton was coated with it. :)

(I'd like to have a few gallons of it though. Has to do wonders for fuel mileage.)

Bob

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If Monica had it on her dress he might not have been caught!!!
 
I'm hoping that as the technology develops the cost will come down.
 
I wonder if that's the stuff that you can get the guts of your cell phone coated with to make it water proof?

As to using it on a boat: "Trolling various Internet sites, I found crazier questions, some of them sci-fi delightful. A guy wondered what would happen if he coated his boat with this stuff. If water is no longer a drag on your forward motion, maybe his boat would shoot through the water like a rocket. He wanted to try it. But when he wrote the company, they warned that at fast speeds, with less drag, "overall stability" might be affected. Meaning he'd get dunked."
 
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Originally posted by stmbtwle

Slick is fine, but does it repel BARNACLES????

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If it does, whoever developed the product is sitting on a gold mine. They will have wealth beyond belief.
 
Right. "nonstick paints work best on boats that are run at 13 mph or faster ..."

So they apply the stuff to a SAILBOAT...
 
The issue that still concerns me is when the boat sits idle for more than two weeks as stated in the article. This may or may not hold true to northern boaters as our season is shorter and the water colder which may contribute to a slower growth of marine barnacles. I will need to give them a call as I have been thinking of having my bottom stripped next year.
 
I plan to do the same next year Bob. I was going to do it this year but I am going to stretch my bottom paint out one more year. I wouldn't mind the extra initial cist if it indeed acts s long as they say it does.
 
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