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BARNA CLE- FREE IS the
‘area around two Perma-
Foil panels on a fiberglass
sheet that was left in Pat
Bay for five months.

TheReview

Wednesday, January 30, 1991

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Sidney firm sole distributor of boat sheathing +

Never paint your bottom again is
what a Sidney distributor is telling
boat Owne;rs.

McKinnon Distributing is the
sole Canadian distributor for Per-
ma-Foil International Inc., which
manufactures a copper-nickel
sheathing that is installed on boat
hulls using a 3-M adhesive back-
ing.

“They ve tried to put copper on
boats for 2,000 years now,” said
distributing company owner Bren-
dan McKinnon.

“They've tried nailing it on,
welding it on, but nothing seemed
to work, until this.”

The sheathing is a perfect anti-
foulant that not only protects a
boat’s bottom from bamacles and
other affects of salt water, but also
slightly increase the vessel’s speed
and cuts its consumption of gas,
McKinnon said.

Boat owners can expect to pay
three-four per cent of the value of
their boat for Perma-Foil to be
applied, but the product is guar-
anteed.

Pacific Yachting magazine is
currently conducting a test of boat
bottom products, including Perma-
Foil. A total of 13 substances,
including various paint products,

have been applied to a boat
moored at False Creek in Van-
couver. Every three months the
boat is pulled into dry dock for
inspection.

But McKinnon is confident his
product will come out on top. A
small plate of Perma-Foil was
installed on a piece of fiberglass
that was immersed in Pat Bay for
five months. The fiberglass was
covered with barnacles, except for
an area around and on top of the
Perma-Foil, when it was removed.

“Five years from now most of
the new boats being manufactured
will come out with Perma-Foil if

common sense prevails,” McKin-
non said.
Recent regulation changes in

Canada have outlawed’ tin-baseq—

paint, following the lead the Uni

ed States took several years ago.®

Now, in the U.S., boaters face fines
up to $25,000, plus a year in jail,
for knowingly using tin-based
paint.

Perma-Foil must be installed by
qualified installers, McKinnon

said, because hull preparation is so:

important.

The copper-nickel alloy based:

sheathing is installed in over-
lapping layers, then sealed.

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