Sail Life - Coppercoat antifouling - DIY sailboat refit 

One advantage when sanding here in the United States is that where you need to sand every square centimetre we only need to sand every square inch, which is less than half the number of centimetres :-D Nincompoopery aside, my reaction when you removed the masking tape was "Wow... I am so happy for you (and Athena)." She looks awesome!

Hi Mads, being a shipwright, it’s nice to see you doing such a complete and thorough job on “good old Athena” and not trying to cheap out or cut corners. I am enjoying your videos and look forward to them every week. Good on you! Neil A

One of the things that you didn't include in your math was the time to apply the anti-fouling. You need to spend time sanding it off and reapplying every spring - a time consuming process. Based on not having to sand and paint the hull for ~15years seems to be worth the cost of the Copper Coat alone. Thank you for another great video Mads :)

I am committed to this channel and see this refit/rebuild completely through. I have way too much time invested to quit anytime soon. Besides, this is a really fun channel to watch.

Mads , been following you for years, apart from your attention to detail and persistance, the most amazing thing about you is that you have been wearing that green check shirt in 'most' videos, and still appears to be clean, if it were mine it would have been covered in oil, diesel, paint, resin, and be useless after about a week. Even for Rags ! Keep up the good work Wilf

Athena is looking better every week. Kudos to you and your minions for the nice work.

The boat is starting to look like a new Halberg Rassy !

The wear areas for anti-fouling are the water line, leading edge of the keel, and the trailing edge of the rudder. Those areas might benefit from an additional coat or two of Copper Coat.

Hands down, the most satisfying part of this video was the peeling of the painter's tape. So awesome, lol!

Two handy tricks I've seen others use to make a job like this easier. 1. If you have the option to work on a hard surface, or can put one down in the work area, then adjustable stools are a godsend for working on the lower sections of the hull. I've seen a few people take it a step further and mount sanders on a heavy duty tripod with the sander mounted on a seesaw contraption. Push down on the far end and it pushes the sander up against the hull. Haven't seen an off the shelf commercial version of such a contraption, so design and build at your own risk. (But you might have a handy tool to rent out to other boaters at the yard if you come up with a good version.) 2. Using high visibility inspection/fairing paint coats. A cheap and easily sanded highly contrasting colour gets lightly sprayed over the hull before any sanding steps. Aids in highlighting pinpricks and such by making them more visible on inspection, but relies on using a very thin paint formula to help ensure it doesn't fill over a gap rather than seeping into it.

Damn. You really have the patience for details! I don't think I'd could be as diligent of you. But the quality of your refit work speaks for itself!

Hi Mads I am not a sailor or a boat builder, but somehow your journey has hit a key with me. Absolutely love what your doing good luck with Athena.

Congratulations Mads. Without doubt you have just passed a major milestone. Is it just me but all of a sudden everything seems to have speeded up.

Sail Life stickers! Now THERE is a reason to give it your all!

Awesome job Mads.

Excellent thorough job. Brings me back...

One word...BEAUTIFUL.

Really looks good .

Awesome!

It looks fantastic!!

Beautiful job !!!

Looks great 👍

Fabulous, great job!

This is wonderful!

Thank You Mads, Great video!

Great looking hull well done!! Cheers!

Wow...beautiful work. Very nice. Thanks for including us in your restoration.

great video. really enjoyed it. looking forward to the next instalment.

Yeah! It’s great to see such a big job accomplished. Love your videos.

Mads a milestone worth celebrating !!

Great job!! Looks AWESOME!!

It’s very gratifying to see the boat coming along so well!

Great work Mads!

Great video Mads!

Man, it looks so good!

My Sunday afternoon revolves around my Sail Life episode. Never miss it.

Looks absolutely great Mads, keep up the amazing work and keep the videos coming.

looks great

She looks AMMMAAZZING! Well done!

Looks great nice job

Beautiful and different !!

That hull turned out just gorgeous!

You have the best friends!

Looking sharp! Nice job so far. Really looking forward to seeing the finished product!

Enfin...! Bravo pour le résultat, on attend avec impatience la suite...! See u

Incredible job Mads, and Athena's hull looks gorgeous!!

Made a great job of that hull, nice job

Looks great nice job 👍👍👍

Looks beautiful.

All the work looks beautiful!

What a good channel!

WoW again ! Really looks Good .

Athena looks crisp and clean. Nice work!

Your killing it homie!

Pretty cool.

Sweet!!! Love the new bottom job and lots of glorious sanding. Can’t wait until next week’s video. 😀😜

Don't think we didn't notice that one of those beers had already been removed!

Looks great, so glad your almost done below the waterline.

WOW Mads, awesome job looks great.

She's coming along! Quite a beauty.

Grats Mads! That is certainly a milestone done! Whoo Hoo, it also happens to look fantastic!

You are cruising along there! Keep up the amazing work.

Another great video. I need you here to apply your practical skills to all the issues on my boat.

She’s flipping gorgeous, Mads. BRAVO.

fine job there Skipper

Nice job man!

That looks awesome! It seems things are really beginning to take shape. Nice work!

Enjoyed your video and your attention to detail very much.

Good job, the hull looks great..

Well done sir.

You are really getting there now! Such fun to follow along.

That tape line - sooooooo sharp! She looks awesome!

you've done a lovely job of the hull, and great to have help of course

Love the way the boat is looking with the copper coat

Splendid job Mads. Athena is looking magnificent

Love the copper coat looks great

so glad you were able to get the bottom all done. This is looking awesome. Your hard work is really paying off. Congrats.

The bottom is done! Congrats! (That was lots of work!)

Good job greatattenison to detail

Great video!

Wow!

Wow, Athena's hull is looking amazing! You are doing a fantastic job on Athena Mads, keep it up mate.

Copper coat looks wonderful and you're doing a great job

Nice spiffy copperhead ... awesome job done, on to the next...

Looks great. Now the outsides pretty much 100% restored. Good job you inspire me!!!

Wow very impressive. Good on you

Great work as always. The Coppercoat looks amazing! It was worth all the waiting. The hull looks beautiful and impervious.

Athena is really looking spiffy. Great video as always. Keep up the good work.

My original coppercoat was applied into the mold during the buildinstead of gelcoat. This was in 1993 and it was based on polyester resin, not epoxy. My fiberglass hull was laid up using vinylester resin. In the tropics, the coppercoat only lasted a couple of years, then needed help from regular antifouling. 5 years ago we discovered osmosis and it turned out to be in the coppercoat, not the vinylester hull. After fixing 700 little blisters and waiting two more seasons to see if more would develop (it didn’t, we got them all first time) we used Interprotect 2000 barriercoat and ablative antifouling. I hope the coppercoat has been improved since then ;-)

That coppercoat is gorgeous!

Minions are worth their weight in ... copper. As usual, well done!

Hi Mads. Thanks for mention the differences between the two antifouling types. I really like your videos and always take info from you for my little boat projekts. Grüße aus Hamburg!

It is so nice to see color on that hull :-)

Just gorgeous! I love copper coat and the effect that gives once you see it in person it is just amazing you did a wonderful job like usual you got some great friends.

Looks pretty dang spiffy Mads!

Looks awesome ! And Damn spiffy !

nice job

It's a thing of beauty. 😀

Looks pretty sweet Mads, especially when the tape was pulled off and that beautifully clean line appeared!

awesome