Customer Testimonials

He set sail from Shamrock Quay for the Caribbean, visiting Grenada as well as crossing the Atlantic to Portugal where his yacht is now at Villamoura. He has told me that he is delighted with Coppercoat and that there is no growth of seaweed or barnacles on the treated part of his hull, but there is some barnacle growth on the boat topping which he did not cover with Coppercoat

After 13 years, our Coppercoat has been cleaned about once every two months with a soft sponge or towel. There is some soft slimy growth, and there was one barnacle early on in a hard to reach area, but no other growth. It’s so easy to clean that the divers here at RCYC in South Africa don’t even want to charge me the minimum fee. They are rarely down there for more than 15 minutes, where as other boats it seems to be for hours that they scrape away. I am so glad to not have to worry about this now, but will continue to regularly hire a diver every few months to wipe the bottom and prop down until we are in warmer water, and I can do it myself.

We first used Coppercoat nearly 25 years ago on one of our High performance Dazcat catamarans, since then our use of Coppercoat has continued to increase to the point where we now offer Coppercoat on all of our new builds. It seems madness not to apply Coppercoat to a new build when you have a clean hull fresh out of the mould. It only takes a few more hours to apply then traditional options on a new hull and will last for many years.

As a boatbuilder we face many challenges, logistical, technical, environmental etc and including Coppercoat in our builds helps in all these departments. Traditionally antifoul, a dirty job is applied in the few days before delivery just when the rest of the boat is being cleaned to an inch of its life so not ideal. On the other hand we are able to apply Coppercoat months before delivery if necessary avoiding this conflict.

We produce High speed ,custom builds and have found that the hard epoxy finish of Coppercoat doesn’t blunt the performance of our craft in the same way that traditional ablative antifoul does. After burnishing the Coppercoat, our boats have exceptionally smooth hulls which can only help them sail at 20kts plus more frequently.

Looking after the environment is as important to us as it is to our customers and unlike applying traditional antifoul when our build shed has to be evacuated for the day, unless we antifoul at night!!! the unique VOC free water based nature of Coppercoat means that everyone can keep working in a solvent free environment ?

Owning a fast multihull can mean that traditional antifoul erodes more quickly than usual, this is not a problem with abrasion resistant, long life Coppercoat that can be simply scrubbed at low tide also negating the need to lift a vessel with a beam that can exceed 25 ft!

For all of the reasons above as well as significantly less damaging chemicals leaching off into our environment, Coppercoat is the right choice for so many reasons.