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Boat Builders Show Their Support
As many of you will have seen in the past, there are always a good number of new boats treated with Coppercoat™ at boat shows all around the world. During a quiet five minutes at the recent London International Boat show, I took the opportunity to take a few pictures of some of the boats…
More CoverageCoppercoat™ vs a conventional Antifoul
The Medway (or as it’s known locally, The Mudway!) is a notoriously bad area in the UK for marine fouling. The following picture was posted on a well known yachting forum. It is rare to have Coppercoat™ tested against a traditional antifoul on the same boat. By the way, Coppercoat™ is the clean product on the…
More CoverageCoppercoat™ at Boat Shows
With Coppercoat™ having distributors in more than 30 countries worldwide, we are being represented at many international Boat Shows across the globe. Our Germany Distributor, Michael Fleiss has just finished exhibiting at the Hanseboot  Boat Show (Hamburg) and our Spanish Distributor, Jaime Capell is currently exhibiting at the Barcelona Boat Show. The next boat shows…
More CoverageCoppercoat™ after 14 years.
Having been supplying Coppercoat™ for almost 20 years, it is increasingly common for us to hear from customers from our “early days”. Whilst we have already published information on boats treated nearly 20 years ago, we were still delighted with the following email recently received from the owner of a Heavenly Twins Catamaran entering its 15th year with Coppercoat™: From: Andy M Sent: 29…
More CoverageIs Coppercoat™ worth its metal?
Two weeks ago Jayson Kenny and I visited Cobb’s Quay Marina in Poole to check on three boats he and I originally painted with our Coppercoat™ multi-season anti-fouling way back in the winter of 1993/4. I am delighted to report that all three are performing faultlessly some 17 years on! The Coppercoat™ applied all those…
More CoverageCoppercoat™ customer makes contact after 17 years
As you can imagine with boats changing hands over the years, it is difficult to keep track of some of the first boats treated with Coppercoat™, nearly 20 years ago. However at the 2010 London Boat Show it was my pleasure to meet up with Robert and Ann Burns, who’s 27ft Albin Vega was treated…
More CoveragePractical Boat Owner (Britain's biggest selling boating magazine) toasts the success of Coppercoat™!
In the December 2007 edition of Practical Boat Owner, the editor Sarah Norbury extolls the virtues of Coppercoat after a 14-year test on her family boat, a Starlight 39.
More CoverageCoppercoat™ wins approval from Sunseeker International!
The results have arrived from Coppercoat trials undertaken on two new Sunseeker 82 Yachts in Dubai. When these new boats arrived
More CoverageCoppercoat™ wins Environment Agency approval after 7-year trial!
In 1999 the Environment Agency applied Coppercoat™ to a 10m RIB to test its credentials and feasibility as a ‘green’ anti-foul. In October 2006 the RIB was lifted for the first time and Mark Warmsley, Transport Manager, said: “As the environment agency we are keen to use products that minimize the impact on the marine…
More CoverageCoppercoat™ Wins Again
The 35ft Warwick Collins yacht ‘Moonlighting’ skippered by Martin Chilver-Stainer came 1st in Class in the recent 2006 Round the Isle of Wight Race. By finishing second overall, ‘Moonlighting’ also won the Fidelis Trophy. This yacht was originally treated with Coppercoat™ in 1996, and while the keel and rudder were treated with fresh Coppercoat™ earlier…
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