Ep109 | Our Nightmare Project - What Actually Happened and What We Learned | Linnea Sailing

How we went from one big (but quite straight forward) project, to a complete nightmare in just a year. This is the full story of what actually happened with our failed new epoxy treatment that resulted in blisters all over the boat and spending 11 weeks redoing the job.

The short story is that we redid our epoxy treatment because we were changing antifouling system to CopperCoat. We choose the West System Barrier Coat as the new epoxy treatment and, for reasons still not clear, it resulted in basically it just falling of the boat in big chunks.

There have been many theories as to what happened and why, please look at the full video for a complete understanding of the process and help we got in figuring things out and what the final conclusions where.

In this episode:
[00:00] Intro
[00:57] Where we're at
[03:07] Why are we doing this?
[06:31] Time for West System Barrier Coat
[08:54] Results
[11:16] 8 months later - the disaster
[14:11] Having to start over
[15:14] New epoxy system: GelShield 200
[16:01] Conclusions

Leave a comment below if you have any questions or thoughts and we'd love to address them in an upcoming Q&A episode.

Fair winds and may this never happen to you!
Emmy & Marcus

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We are Emmy and Marcus, a Swedish couple who has decided to leave our home and set sail out into the world with our boat Linnea. After a season in the Caribbean, we decided to leave Linnea in Trinidad and fly back to Sweden for the hurricane season. This allowed us to get an extra year of sailing and reach even more beautiful destinations for our second season of cruising. For now the goal is Greenland and back home to Sweden, via the Caribbean, BVIs, Bahamas, US east coast, and Canada. But who really knows how far our dreams might take us?

Welcome aboard our floating home Linnea to join us on our adventures!

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