{"id":2328,"date":"2009-01-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-30T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=2328"},"modified":"2009-10-08T15:06:34","modified_gmt":"2009-10-08T20:06:34","slug":"aluminum-paint-system-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/aluminum-paint-system-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Aluminum Paint System Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have previously written about the paint system we are using on <em>Wind Horse<\/em>. This is an Ameron\/Devoe system which we sourced in New Zealand based on the suggestion of our friend, Dale Morris, at Ventura Harbor Boat Yard.<\/p>\n<p>After 11,000 miles last year, and a few encounters with ice, there are several nicks in the bottom paint which need repair. The basic paint system is in good shape and the antifouling has performed well.<\/p>\n<p>For those of you thinking about an aluminum boat, here is the Ameron system that we used:<\/p>\n<p>Against bare aluminum, Ameron 302 Zinc &#8211; One coat.<\/p>\n<p>Barrier coats, Ameron 235 epoxy &#8211; three coats.<\/p>\n<p>Antifouling &#8211; Ameron ABC #3 ablative.<\/p>\n<p>The top of the bottom paint is finished off with a bootstripe of LPU enamel to seal the edge of the bottom paint system. Topsides, of course, are left bare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have previously written about the paint system we are using on Wind Horse. This is an Ameron\/Devoe system which <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/aluminum-paint-system-update\/\">&#8230;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fpb64-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}