I'm continuing to have problems with the Coppercoat applied to my boat. It was applied in late summer 2006, and then abraded in the summer of 2007 as it hadn't really worked at all well as an antifouling.
The boat was launched in March this year and when she was hauled and scrubbed in June she was quite fouled.
The boatyard are having her out of the water next week and are abrading the bottom again, but the essential problem seems to be that the Coppercoat has not turned green, and is still the unreacted red colour it was when it was applied. According to Coppercoat, it needs to turn green, i.e. oxidise, before it works.
What I can't understand is why it has not turned green! Has anyone out there got enough technical chemistry knowledge to advise why the copper has not oxidised in sea water?
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