Well we have been in Marmaris for a couple of weeks now. When we first got here it rained every day, so it kinda slowed us down a little on our projects. The biggest project was repainting the bottom of the boat with new antifouling paint. It is a special paint they put on the bottom of boats to keep the barnacles and other sea critters from growing on the boat. And of course everyone has an opinion of what to use and how long it will last. In the end we decided to go with Coppercoat. It is a two-part epoxy paint that you mix in pure powered copper into the paint. Essentially it covers the entire bottom of the boat in copper, something sea animals don’t seem to like. It is very expensive paint at about $400 a gallon. Yikes. But the paint is supposed to last for years, saving the expense of hauling out the boat every couple of years. Now the bottom of the boat looks like a copper penny. It will eventually turn that rich green color after being in the salt water for a couple of months. I hope this works.
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