Coppercoat Antifoul
Customer Testimonials
Applied 2005
“Abolutely splendid stuff! I just need to order an extra pot for some repairs.”
Mr F
Hallberg-Rassy Salcombe, Devon
Applied 2008
“Really, really pleased. After 18 months afloat the boat was lifted and the only fouling was on the (non-Coppercoated) boot top paint! I need to order some more to replace my boot top paint with Coppercoat®!”
Mr G
Deb 33, Southern Brittany
Since her launch almost seven years ago ‘Zest’ has never been out of the water for more than 18 hours. Our experience is that copper epoxy, (Coppercoat) is a great success. We never have any weed or barnacles on the bottom, just a thin layer of slime that is easily blasted away by a pressure hose.
Miles Kendall
Yachting Monthly
We put Coppercoat® on our boat 4 years ago. it is brilliant; each time we lift out all we do is jet wash and it’s as good as new. We have received many envious comments from those having to deal with traditional antifouling. It is probably the best investment we made, saving us lots of time and lots of money too. I can’t rate the product highly enough.
Sue & Brian K
I put Coppercoat® on our HR42 in Brunei about 8 years ago and it still seems to be holding out. I have convinced 3 other owners to take the Coppercoat® option that I am aware of.
Unknown
Unknown
Brilliant. Have been through the cleaning antifouling routine for years. Now enjoy all year round sailing and only take my boat out for a day to pressure wash it. (I like laughing at the others who STILL have to antifoul for hours!).
Mr Pugh
Suffolk
5 Years+ on, excellent product, cost effective over 3-4 years, a great success!
Mr Nicholls
Warwickshire
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
Great product, I’m on my second boat with Coppercoat.
Mr Papadimitriou
After 9 years of heavy use I would now like to apply this fantastic product again.
Mr Rowe
New Zealand
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