Eco-Antifouling Results Q&A - Failure or Success????
Added 2019-05-24 03:57:22 +0000 UTCThank you so much for sending in your questions Delos Tribe, they were so helpful in putting this video together! We know that bottom-painting season is fast approaching in some parts, so we wanted to get this out to you ASAP. Please put your questions/comments below and we'll do our best. Since this is not a normal series video we exclude this from counting towards your per-video contribution. Just a small token of appreciation to let you know how much we appreciate all you do for us :)
Eco-friendly antifouling Q&A with Capt. Brian and Senor Brady. We sit down and discuss the results of our eco-friendly antifouling experiment. Brian starts off with a little recap of what we did during our haul out in Grenada, and why we made the decision to try and find a paint that did not rely on traditional antifouling agents. We show the results of Delos sitting at 3 weeks, 5 weeks, and 7 weeks without moving, and compare those results to boats around us with hard copper, ablative copper, homemade copper-epoxy, and copper coat. Finally we scrub the bottom clean and start sailing regularly again and show how the effects of water over the hull make a difference in the growth on Delos’s hull. This was a really interesting video to research and put together, we hope you learned as much as we did!
Fair winds, peace, and love from Brian, Karin, Brady, and Alex.
Links to papers about effects of copper on the environment:
https://www.chemet.com/assets/1/6/Copper_and_the_Ocean_Environment.pdf
Products used on Delos:
Ultrasonic Antifouling
Https://www.nrgmarine.com
(Use code svdelos25 at checkout for a Delos Discount)
SeaSpeed VX 10 Paint
http://www.seacoat.com/product-2/
Underwater Drill (Nemo Power Tools)
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