Series 1: These pictures are from a Feeling 1040 in Portland Marina during the early summer, the series starts from the second coat. We peeled and blasted the hull at the end of the previous season and the customer had been pressure washing regularly during the winter, by the time we started the rebuild, the hull was well and truly dry. The keel is cast steel and is being bladed with the solvent free epoxy at the same time as the hull.
Coat Four and you cannot deny that it looks fantastic, it was a good hot day and we were able to work pretty much non stop, coating, blading and coating - tired yes but a good sense of satisfaction. The next morning we returned and applied a solvent based epoxy primer and left to cure.
The owner was considering giving this an antifoul but the hull looked so good, we convinced him to let us CopperCoat as we knew it would look fantastic. So, all the coating work was completed in one week. Monday - Epoxied four coats Tuesday - Primed Friday - Quick sanding to perfect finish - Four coats of CopperCoat JOB DONE !!!
Series 2: This series of pictures shows our rebuilding process on a 37ft yacht in Bristol. We had previously peeled and blasted the hull and the customer has been regularly pressure washing the hull to remove any salts (osmotic fluid). Firstly, we feather the edge of the peel line and mask, the epoxy is then mixed and applied by roller - NO FILLER IS USED AT ALL - this saves time and money - filler should not be required if the original peel was good, filler can be porous and is usually the failure point on faulty osmosis repairs, therefore no filler – no filler to go wrong!
The epoxy we use is solvent free, nice and thick and extremely sticky. During our process we blade this epoxy to exclude air and to force into the laminate, thus ensuring beyond doubt perfect adhesion.
This is the third coat (about lunchtime). Wet on tacky ensures perfect bonding, blading each coat progressively improves the finish and will smooth imperfections.
Series 3: Coat four and the finish you can see is perfect! This process has taken most of the day and we will now unmask again and go home to return and Copper Coat in the morning. The skill is in the blading to obtain this good a finish, the coating here is about 1.2-1.6mm thick. Bear in mind that the actual coating process has taken 1 day and you can appreciate why Symblast can be so much cheaper than anybody else when it comes to osmosis repair, you may also see that there can surely be no better method (bar re-laminating-which we can also offer).
The following morning we returned, remasked and applied four coats of Copper Coat, then went home! Of course, we returned later to treat the shore areas once the hull had been repositioned. This work carries a standard one years warranty from immersion date - however the customer has our reputation built in and if anything should go wrong - even years after he needs only to contact us and we will take a look and see why and rectify if we can. This has never happened so far though and we hope it never does!