Hi, peoples.
Would anybody give me a ballpark estimate on how much it would cost to barrier coat the bottom on my E27?
What do the yards typically charge??? until now I have owned trailerable sailboats and didnt' have to deal with bottom paint...
Thanks for your input,
Mac
A big part of this answer is how much of the work can you do yourself, and how bad are they? If you only have a scattered handful, and they are small, the best thing to do may be nothing but haul annually and watch them until they start to change/grow/increase in numbers. If you can do all the work yourself, you probably can get by around $500+ in materials. I'm budgeting 4 gallons of Interlux Interprotect 2000E at about $80/each, $125 worth of West System Epoxy and fillers and that only leaves $55.00 for sandpaper, solvents, brushes, rollers, etc.... The labor is intensive, and you'll really need to talk to specific yards to see what they would charge. My above estimate assumes you've sanded off your old bottom paint yourself. I wasn't in the mood to sand off my own paint, have sand blasted enough cars to have grit in my shorts for weaks to not be interested in doing it myself, so I had Emerald's bottom blasted for a mere $450. As you can see, this project can easily cost you a $1000, and I'd just double or triple that for a yard to do the work.
West System has extensive information on their website, and a detailed document about gelcoat blisters and their repair you can download here as a .pdf file:
http://www.westsystem.com/ss/assets/howto-pub2/Gelcoat Blisters Diagnosis Repair and Prevention.pdf
This link is from here:
http://www.westsystem.com/ss/boat-repair/
I've just hauled after about 15 months after doing a blister repair using the West System and 406 to fill and build, West with 410 to fair, and then Interlux Interprotect 2000E for barrier, and so far, it's looking good. No affiliation with any vendor, it just looks like this approach is working for me. However, if you search this board for blister repair, you will find a variety of experiences and success, and there are no guarantees