[Capt J]

Originally Posted by CSkipR

You can still get the good stuff in the Bahamas. It is made in St. Pete, Fl. Yachts over 90' can still get the good stuff.

I've found that the new bottom paints work just as well, if not better, if you mix in a 8-16 ounce bottle of Cayenne pepper into each gallon of bottom paint.

[NYCAP123]

Originally Posted by CSkipR

You can still get the good stuff in the Bahamas. It is made in St. Pete, Fl. Yachts over 90' can still get the good stuff.

Are bottom painters in Fl. required to get a pesticide license or is that just a NY thing. Reason I ask is who's going to risk a license and fines to put this stuff on?

[CSkipR]

Originally Posted by NYCAP123

Are bottom painters in Fl. required to get a pesticide license or is that just a NY thing. Reason I ask is who's going to risk a license and fines to put this stuff on?

The boat yards in Fl can put it on although they cannot sell the bottom paint with THT.

[Capt J]

Originally Posted by NYCAP123

Are bottom painters in Fl. required to get a pesticide license or is that just a NY thing. Reason I ask is who's going to risk a license and fines to put this stuff on?

No license is needed. An owner can put his own bottom paint on. Once in a blue moon the EPA checks the local yards........It's just extremely hard to buy the bottom paint with TBT. You're not going to find it anywhere......

[CSkipR]

Originally Posted by Capt J

No license is needed. An owner can put his own bottom paint on. Once in a blue moon the EPA checks the local yards........It's just extremely hard to buy the bottom paint with TBT. You're not going to find it anywhere......

Thats why I have to purchase it in the Bahamas. The only place I know it is still available.

[Capt. Bill11]

Originally Posted by Capt J

No license is needed. An owner can put his own bottom paint on. Once in a blue moon the EPA checks the local yards........It's just extremely hard to buy the bottom paint with TBT. You're not going to find it anywhere......

Sure you can. There is a yard right here in Ft. Lauderdale that has a whole warehouse full of TBT bottom paint.

As I recall, stocks in hand were "grandfathered" in. So it can be applied by those that still have it in stock.