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[Amel Yacht Owners] hemple antifouling paint
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tony wells
Hemple (self polishing) is popular at my marina chandler yesterday - Cleopatra, Preveza, Greece. At €126 per 2.5 litres it is as popular as Micron 350 (€132 per 2.5 litre) (which I’m told is the new generation to ‘EU’ and the tin was noticeably heavier than a tin of old ‘EU’ they had in stock. Copper content!?) Tony Wells New owner of A54 #102 Catriona R (to be renamed Balthazar, it’s original name) and an Amel School client Preveza, Ionian, Greece On 6 Feb 2019, at 14:46, Bill Rouse brouse@... [amelyachtowners] <amelyachtowners@...> wrote:
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Jeff, Just be careful that they are not offering the Hemple product for fast powerboats...they have a lot of those in PR. On Wed, Feb 6, 2019 at 8:10 AM JEFFREY KRAUS jmkraus@... [amelyachtowners] <amelyachtowners@...> wrote:
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JEFFREY KRAUS
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Jeff I learned of Hemple when we were in Cartagena in 2006. What I learned then was that Hemple is a Spanish manufacturer of antifouling. It is used commercially and on pleasure boats. They had two types, ablative and hard. In the hard antifouling line they had an antifouling for power boats that would go 20kts and they had a line for slower boats. I do not remember any of the product names. I used the hard type antifouling for slower boats to touch up some of the Micron 66. We painted it over a small area that had been scraped, and since we had a gallon we painted the keel and ballast, skeg and rudder. It performed as good as the Micron 66. As I remember it, I believe it cost more than I had paid for Micron 66 in St Martin, but that may have been because of Colombia duty. All of the above said, my experience with Hemple was long enough ago to be completely invalid today.
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