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For a New England season?

When I worked at Boat US I would purchase a gallon of their ablative and it lasted the whole season with no problems. My boat is also a 23' and it would be moored or docked in the Merrimac River in Newburyport.

As an employee, I paid as little as $6.83/gal for clearance stock. I would purchase next season's paint at the end of the current season when they would be blowing it out the door. At those prices and with that strategy, I would put a coat on every year. I will pay for it when the time comes though. I suspect I will bite the bullet and have it soda blasted. There has been about a 10-15 yr build up.

BTW, there are really only two companies making it and I forget who they were right now. I'll check to see if I can find out. Interlux and Petit are brand names for a parent company or two. Boat US would contract one of them to private lable their "shop" brand. You'll have to check the product claims against both the private lable and the name brand to try and determine which formulation you're getting.

PS. The only real problem I had was at the water line where the river water would deposit the typical scum through the season. It really had to be cleaned when hauled in the fall, otherwise it was a real PITA in the spring.