Coppercoat Antifoul
Customer Testimonials
Applied 2000.
“The Coppercoat® is still working very well”
Mr H
26ft Bilge Keel, River Colne, Essex
Had CC applied to bilge-keeled Moody 31 in Dec 2008, as the final part of an osmosis treatment. Kept in a drying mud berth. Generally very happy – “it has already saved me 4 years of lifting, scraping and anti-fouling.
Mr Valentine
Kent
Applied 2007.
“Still working well 5 years on”
Mr J
Hanse 342, Largs
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.
Rebecca Childress
South Africa
Applied 1997.
“Still absolutely fine, 15 years after I applied it. Brilliant!”
Mr H
Sadler Barracuda, Fleetwood, Essex,
We haven’t bought any conventional antifoul for twenty years. Our first experience with Coppercoat® was on a new Hallberg Rassy 352 on which we cruised extensively in the Baltic, Mediterranean, America Nova Scotia and the Caribbean.
Our second 10 year experience with copper coat is on a 30 year old Duellist 32. English Channel, French canals, Baltic and the Netherlands.
The product has been excellent on both boats and is still in good condition. Photos to follow.
Cheers
John Wilson
PS We are so pleased with the performance of the product that we are willing for you to use our name as a recommendation.
John Wilson
Application was exactly as described and performance has improved over normal antifoul- great product!
Mr Kinch
West Sussex
Applied 2006.
“Fantastic product. I swear by it! Never had to recoat, even in problematic Med. conditions.”
Mr D
Sports Cruiser, San Pedro del Pinatar, Spain
Halcyon 27,
Ross-Shire Scotland,
Applied 1999.
“I applied Coppercoat® in 1999 (13 years ago) and only now is it starting to lose some coverage. Brilliant product!”
Mr A
Scotland
Another vote for Coppercoat! I’ve had it for 5 years and still working well.
Mr Bryan
London
Featured
As an anti-fouling we have been particularly impressed by Coppercoat performance over the years and we would confidently recommend it.
Yachting Monthly Magazine
After 8 Year Trial
“Coppercoat-Superyacht…has a much smaller environmental impact than traditional eroding solutions. It’ll operate on any clean hull – composite, steel, aluminium. A decade between treatments is possible. The formula’s strong matrix allows for periodic scrubbing.”
Paul Ashton
Superyacht World
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.
Simon Baker, Director, Multimarine Manufacturing Ltd
Multimarine Multihull Centre, Millbrook, Cornwall