Coppercoat Antifoul
Customer Testimonials
Vagabond 31
Treated in 2006
“I bought your excellent paint Coppercoat® in the year 2006, and have not painted since then! So I’m very pleased.
I will soon get another small boat, on which I also intend to use your Coppercoat® .”
Mr J.H.
Sweden
Applied 2009.
“Excellent! Took a little while to turn green (i.e. turned green after gentle abrasion during 2nd winter lift-out). All the sludge comes off easily with a pressure wash – no need for scrubbing and no patches to re-new.”
Mr A
Sadler 32, Hayling Island
Copper epoxies tend to be favoured by environmental groups as they do not leach their metallic content in anything like the quantity that the popular self-eroding antifouls do, thereby reducing the build up of copper on the seabed, and equally importantly, continuing to be effective with little or no maintenance for ten or more years. Now must be the time to consider whether Coppercoat could be the answer to your fouling problems, both economically and environmentally.
Duncan Kent
Captain's Log Author
Applied 2009.
“Excellent product, Just follow the instructions. Good preparation is essential, and the hardest part.”
Mr B
Catalac 8m, Gosport
Applied 1997.
“Still absolutely fine, 15 years after I applied it. Brilliant!”
Mr H
Sadler Barracuda, Fleetwood, Essex,
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
Congratulations on your product. My boat has been in a marina in Portugal since 2011 without having been removed/washed. After a quick pressure wash the hull is as new.
Many people at the marina doubted that the boat had been in the water for 10 years but as you can see in the mussels in the keel that’s exactly what happened.
Since I wouldn’t stop complaining if your product wasn’t good, I feel it is my obligation to praise you for the excellent results obtained.
Armando
Portugal
Great! Saves so much work and expense.
Mr Young
Portugal
Great product, I’m on my second boat with Coppercoat.
Mr Papadimitriou
Southerly 32
Treated in 2008
Based in Lymington
“My Coppercoat® is now 4 years old and is working very well.”
Mr U
Lymington
Featured
“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
“With a lifespan of between 10 and 20 years per treatment, this ultra hard wearing epoxy antifoul eliminates the need for the repeated costly and time consuming dry dockings necessary for re-applications of conventional antifoul. By removing the need to continually dock and re-antifoul, long life Coppercoat-Superyacht provides unbeatable value for money.”
Chris Clifford
Onboard Magazine
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