Pleasure Marine

Elite® 321 Brushing Polyurethane is a specialised marine finish coat formulated for brush and roller application. It is based on the latest cyclo-aliphatic polyester technology, giving a high quality and durable finish coat with long lasting gloss.

Elite® 321 Brushing Polyurethane has been especially designed for both the Professional and DIY painter for maintenance repainting of all yachts, launches and other pleasure craft.

Elite® 321 Brushing Polyurethane is recommended for use on all vessel types to repaint:

Topsides, Cabins & Decks

Interiors, Masts & Fittings

Showers, Heads & Galleys

May also be utilised on a wide range of equipment and / or vehicles:

• Horsefloats
• Caravans
• Campervans

Elite® 321 Brushing Polyurethane allows a competent brush painter to restore his boat to a high level of finish and performance for a fraction of the price of a professional job.

Recommended Uses

Elite® Pro~Spray Linear Polyurethane is a professional grade spraying finish coat especially formulated for use in the marine industry and provides a convenient 1:1 (Part A : Part B) mix ratio by volume.

Elite® Pro~Spray is based on the latest aliphatic urethane technology, giving exceptional UV protection and an ultra durable gloss. It has been developed specifically to resist the high UV light exposure in both NZ and Australia.

Elite® Pro~Spray is designed to provide a high quality finish for both maintenance repaint and new construction in the marine industry.

Elite® Pro~Spray is recommended for:

• application over either:

                Altex Epoxy Barrier Undercoat or

                Altex Polyurethane Undercoat

• Topsides, decks, interiors and fittings that require a premium quality finish.
• Areas such as showers, heads and galleys where a highly cross-linked film is needed to resist moisture and heat.
• Masts, spars and other exterior fittings & fixtures

Features

Convenient 1:1 volume mix ratio

• Improved wet flow coupled with excellent hold up of the wet film
• Superior 'lay-down' characteristics minimise orange peel and enhance the Definition Of Image
• Excellent re-flow on laps and spot sprayed areas
• Available in a full range of colours – including custom colours, as well as Clear for additional durability
• Gloss levels may be reduced with Altex Polyurethane Flattening Paste to provide low sheen finishes for interior work

Altex Yacht & Boat Epoxy Aluminium Primer is a two component primer utilising state of the art chromate anti-corrosive technology designed for use on aluminium structures, plate and extrusions and galvanised substrates.

It has been developed for use above the waterline (non-immersion) to provide the very best adhesion to aluminium substrates, and for optimised control of  filiform corrosion.

Epoxy Aluminium Primer is recommended for:

• Launches, dinghies, yachts – topsides, cabin tops, decks, internal areas, void spaces, masts & spars
• Superior adhesion to aluminium surfaces
• Resistance to filiform corrosion.

Note: Epoxy Aluminium Primer is not suitable for use on surfaces subject to continuous immersion.

Altex Yacht & Boat Paint Epoxy Barrier Undercoat is a high performance, sandable epoxy high build coating which is both very corrosion and water resistant.

Epoxy Barrier Undercoat is recommended for:

• Topside & Superstructure final sealing to provide an optimum surface for finish coating
• As a high build surfacer to remove defects and achieve a finish suitable for application of Altex Polyurethane Undercoat or one of the Elite Polyurethane finish coats
• As a high build barrier coat for below waterline application, used as part of an Altex Antifouling system
• Direct application to sanded GRP, epoxy laminated wood and epoxy sealed wood
• Direct application to epoxy faired surfaces

• Application over Altex Epoxy Primer or Altex High Build Surfacer
• Priming / undercoating over degreased & sanded aged polyurethanes, epoxies, fairing systems, gelcoats, epoxy laminates & fibreglass

Advantages:

• Excellent build properties up to 150µm DFT in a two pass application
• Excellent surfacing and sanding properties
• Very good corrosion protection
• Wide maximum self re-coat times for easy project management
• Very good water and chemical resistance
• Epoxy Barrier Undercoat may be top-coated with both acrylic or polyester urethane finishes and is especially formulated as an undercoat or sealer under the Altex Elite® range of polyurethane finish coats
• May be used as a high build surfacer / undercoat for topcoating with Altex Polyurethane Undercoat
• May be used in immersion service as part of an Altex Yacht & Boat recommended system

Altex Yacht & Boat Epoxy Glue is a high quality general purpose marine grade epoxy glue that can be used for a variety of marine applications:

• Easy mixing  -  4 : 1 ratio by volume
• Ideal general purpose glue
• Easy to spread
• High strength
• Water resistant
• Excellent thixotropic, gap filling and anti-sag properties
• Can be used in totally immersed conditions
• Adheres dissimilar materials well
• Can be used on Tanalised timber

• Altex Epoxy Glue should NOT be used on Boric Treated Timber

Recommended Uses

Altex Yacht & Boat Epoxy High Build Surfacer is a two component new technology high build epoxy surfacer and profiling compound.

Altex Epoxy High Build Surfacer is designed to fill and profile minor imperfections such as found on epoxy glass lay-ups, sanded epoxy fairing compounds, and repair sites on damaged structures.

The recommended maximum dry film thickness per coat is 0.5mm (500 microns).

Altex Epoxy High Build Surfacer may be applied by spray or squeegee, or a combination of both.

Features

• Excellent build and filling qualities
• Light-weight
• Easily applied without specialised equipment
• Excellent sanding properties
• Excellent water resistance
• Compatible with many substrates including suitably primed steel, aluminium, gel-coat, epoxy laminates, composites etc.
• May be applied direct to fresh epoxy laminate and composites
• May reduce labour input during the fairing stages of new builds

Recommended Uses

Altex Yacht & Boat Epoxy Primer provides the foundation for all high performance marine systems. Altex Epoxy Primer is suitable for a vast range of substrates, and ensures exceptional adhesion for all coating systems to build on.

Altex Epoxy Primer is recommended for use as:

• Primer on suitably prepared steel, alloy, GRP and wooden substrates
• Multi-coat primer and self-build system
• Primer and seal coat for Altex Epoxy fairing systems

Altex Epoxy Primer may also be used to seal off prepared, aged coatings prior to repainting - refer also to Altex Epoxy Barrier Undercoat.

Altex Epoxy Primer is ideal for use below the water-line as a tie coat between aged epoxies and Altex Yacht & Boat Antifoulings-

• No.5 Ablative
• Sea~Zone® 60
• Pettit Vivid®
• Pettit Hydrocoat®

Features

• Excellent adhesion to a wide variety of substrates
• Mild Steel, Corten steel
• Aluminium
• Stainless Steel, Brass, Bronze and Lead
• Sealed timber, Fibreglass, Epoxy resin
• Gelcoat, Carbon fibre
• Sealed ferro-cement
• Formulated for use above and below water - simplifies full hull painting projects
• Very long mixed pot life
• Excellent long term re-coat and overcoating properties
• Very rapid dust-free and touch dry times
• Excellent anti-corrosive properties

Ideal for fairing systems – to apply fairing compound onto and for the sealing of completed, sanded fairing systems

General Purpose High performance Epoxy Resin

Used for: Altex Epoxy Resin may be mixed with either Altex Microballoons, or General Purpose Thickener to provide site mix fairing, gap filling glue and coving compounds.

• Easy mixing  -  4 : 1 ratio by volume
• Excellent cure characteristics with a good “tail” - mixed resin retains good flow throughout its pot life
• Low viscosity with excellent wetting properties
• Ideally packaged for Marine and Industrial use
• Excellent stir in wetting of fairing and glue fillers and extenders
• Cures well at low temperatures
• Good flow characteristics with low viscosity minimizes air entrapment
• Low odour

New lightweight formulation, with the added benefit of an easy to measure mix ratio.

• 1 : 1 mix ratio 
• Easy to open and re-seal lids 
• Lightweight once cured 
• Easy sanding properties 
• Smooth and creamy texture – makes trowelling / blading easy 
• Excellent hold up on vertical surfaces 
• Approved for above and below waterline use 
• Compatible with a wide range of epoxy primers and build coats, and suitable for application direct to suitably prepared bare wood, fibreglass, gelcoat and GRP 
• 100% solids – no solvent smells and no shrinkage 

Use Over:

AY&B Epoxy Primer

AY&B Epoxy Barrier Undercoat

AY&B Epoxy HB Surfacer

AY&B Epoxy Resin & Microballoon Fairing

Compatible with other epoxy types – consult Technical Services for further details.

Recommended Uses

Altex Epoxy TimberSealer can be used for a variety of marine applications:

• To seal any timber surface destined for marine use
• As a timber pre-sealer for all Marine Paint and Varnish systems

Altex Epoxy TimberSealer should be considered for use particularly in areas of low air movement, cyclic humidity or areas inaccessible after construction.

Features

• Low viscosity, epoxy penetrant timber sealer
• Compatible with epoxy gluing and laminating systems
• Compatible with most two component epoxy and polyurethane undercoats
• Excellent wicking properties especially on timber end grain
• Hardens and increases the density of timber and plywood
• Excellent water resistance

Epoxy Wood Saturant

Typically used for:

• All timber surfaces, including timber immersed in fresh or sea water
• Everseal provides the initial pre-treatment of timber surfaces prior to a suitable coating system being applied

• Preserves timber against staining and decay due to fungal attack
• Helps to prevent attack from white ants and other boring insects
• Used to control distortion, cracking and shrinkage of timber
• To limit water penetration particularly into the timber end grain

Recommended Uses

Altex Yacht & Boat MultiPurpose Primer is a versatile single pack primer designed for use on many different substrates, both above and below the waterline.

It may be used with confidence

• As a water resistant economical primer over suitably prepared steel, lead, wood and GRP.
• As both an above and below the waterline primer.
• As a versatile primer for all single component systems
• To seal single pack putties

Altex MultiPurpose Primer may be overcoated with:

• Altex No.5 and No.10 antifoulings
• Pettit Vivid® Antifouling
• Altex Surfacer Undercoat
• Altex Regatta® Gloss Enamel

Features

• Versatile single component primer for most substrates above and below the waterline
• Rapid dry time
• Unique resin and pigment blend provides unparalleled protection to suitably prepared steel, wood and GRP, as well as sanded aged coatings
• Provides a “stand alone”, multi-coat underwater protective system requiring only anti-fouling to complete the job
• Suitable for all areas of hull on trailer and moored vessels

Altex No.5 Antifouling is recommended:

• Where multi-season effective fouling protection is needed
• Where regulations ban or restrict the use of organotin compounds
• On yachts, tenders, dinghies, trailer yachts and power boats

Altex No.5 Antifouling is:

• Compatible over other copper based anti-foulings, where recommended preparation is achieved
• Not suitable for use on aluminium craft, outboard motors, sail drives or stern legs
• Suitable and recommended for use on primed GRP, gelcoat, steel, timber and ferro-cement craft

Note: Because ablative antifoulings work by slowly wearing away to expose fresh biocides, the amount of product applied has a direct bearing on system life.

Features

Contains No Organotin Compounds

• Contains high levels of cuprous oxide
• Self polishing/ablative mechanism inhibits the attachment of fouling organisms
• Suitable for high speed craft - however, ablation rate will increase when subjected to sustained high speed

No.5 PLUS is the solution to the ever increasing fouling burden in nutrient 
rich waters

Designed for the pleasure marine sector, to provide owners with a dependable, high-performance coating system that will save them money in maintenance costs.

It is recommended for yachts, launches, tenders, dinghies and trailer yachts, No.5 PLUS will typically provide 22-26 months protection.*
(based on two spray-applied coats). 

Not suitable for use on aluminium craft, outboard motors, sail drives or stern legs.

• Built and engineered on our proven performer No.5 Antifouling
• Highest biocide loading for ultimate protection
• Superior resistance to fouling in static conditions
• Ultimate protection for cruisers in the South Pacific
• High-performance self-polishing ablative technology

  * Durability will be determined by film thickness applied, frequency of use, water conditions, tidal flow and many other variables

ONLY AVAILABLE IN AUSTRALIA!

Hydrocoat® is an advanced technology, water-based, ablative antifouling which offers exceptional multi-season protection against most types of fouling.

Hydrocoat’s innovative technology replaces the harsh solvents found in most bottom paints with water, resulting in an easier application and clean up, with no heavy solvent smell.

Hydrocoat’s ablative surface wears away with use, exposing fresh biocides while eliminating paint build up and the need for sanding. The low-odour formula is so environmentally friendly, it exceeds even the most stringent air pollution regulations.

Hydrocoat® withstands frequent trailering, beaching, and launching. Its unique formula allows unlimited dry time to launch, so you can paint in the autumn or winter.

Hydrocoat® has been used on all new Sea-Ray boats for over 12 years.

Approval:              NZ HSNO – Reg: HSR000041

Recommended Uses

Vivid® Aluminium safe antifouling providing proven high performance protection.

Vivid® provides excellent multi-season, dual biocide antifouling protection under all conditions for all substrates.

Vivid®‘s hybrid technology incorporates all the benefits of both ablative and hard paints in one superior product. Its hard, smooth surface withstands trailering and is easily burnished to a high performance racing finish. On trailered boats Vivid® may be hauled and launched without loss of protection.

When used over a suitable priming system, Vivid® can safely be used on aluminium hulls and outdrives.

May be used over suitably prepared cuprous oxide and alloy safe antifoulings-refer to your Altex Sales Representative.

Now you can have the brightest colours, the blackest black and the whitest white available in a bottom paint.

Vivid®, the perfect antifouling choice for any boat:

• Aluminium hulls, stern drives
• Trailer boats
• Moored vessels – any type or construction material
• Bright, clean coloured boot toppings
• Work boats, barges etc

Features

Excellent for ALL substrates:

• Aluminium
• Fibreglass
• Gelcoat
• Wood
• Steel

Altex Yacht & Boat Paint Polyurethane Undercoat is a high performance, sandable undercoat which exhibits a number of significant advantages over existing PUR undercoats.

By combining new technology polyurethane binders, Altex Polyurethane Undercoat features excellent build characteristics & superior water resistance, coupled with low temperature cure & extended pot life. The sanding qualities are second to none.

Polyurethane Undercoat is recommended for:

• Use above the waterline only
• Maximised adhesion when transitioning between epoxy undercoats and the selected polyurethane finish coat - in all marine situations
• Direct application to sanded, aged polyurethane topcoats for “Two step – Two coat” maintenance repaint work
• Exterior topside & superstructure final sealing to provide a fully recoatable surface for extended periods before sanding & finish coating

• Application over all AY&B epoxy systems

• Excellent build tolerance up to 100µm DFT in a two pass application
• Superior sanding properties
• Wide maximum over coating times for easy project management

PrimaShield Antifouling Sealer is a quick drying, general purpose, below waterline primer designed to provide both exceptional water barrier and tie coat properties to a large range of substrates prior to applying antifouling

PrimaShield Antifouling Sealer is used on the following substrates:

• Mild steel & Corten steel hulls & keels
• Timber hulls (sealed with Altex Epoxy TimberSealer)
• Aged exposed epoxy primers / undercoats
• Exposed fibreglass, gelcoat or GRP
• Aged antifoulants - suitable for use as a barrier/sealer coat between unknown or incompatible antifoulings.
• Other substrates – see over page.

Mainly used for spot priming of exposed primers & undercoats during maintenance repaints of antifoulings. These spot applications ensure good adhesion of the antifouling to an aged substrate.

Advantages:

• Single pack, fast dry, direct to steel primer
• Extended time to re-coat with itself or with all solvent borne antifoulings
• Excellent corrosion protection
• May be used to seal old antifouling coatings
• Excellent application properties – easy to brush / roll
• Excellent water immersion resistance
• Reinforced with aluminium flake
• Fully compatible primer & sealer for all Altex antifoulings
• Excellent primer & sealer for immersed wooden hulls

Designed to be used in Altex Yacht & Boat Regatta® Gloss Enamel to convert the film into a cross linked (2K) acrylic.
Altex Regatta® 2K Additive may also be used in AY&B Timbercote Varnish where multiple coats are required, to reduce time between coats.

This additive will improve flow, speed up dry time, increase gloss levels and make the film harder.

Recommended Uses

Regatta® Gloss Enamel is designed for use as the finish coating for the Single Component Marine topsides systems.

Regatta® Gloss Enamel can be used on :

• Canoes
• Tenders
• Dinghies
• Trailer yachts
• Power boats
• For signwriting
• Boot stripes
• For up-grading existing enamel systems, subject to correct preparation and undercoating

And numerous other DIY projects requiring a high quality enamel finish coat.

Features

• High gloss enamel finish
• Superior, “long oil” Marine quality
• Good weathering properties
• Excellent gloss retention
• Good application characteristics
• Compatible with Altex Flattening Paste to reduce the gloss for interior colours
• May be modified with the addition of Regatta® 2K Additive to speed up cure and enhance overall performance. This effectively creates a “Two Pack” finish coat. (see overleaf)

Sea~Zone® 60 Antifouling is a new generation Silyl Acrylate formulation that protects hulls from marine growth though a self polishing hydrolysis action.

The silyl acrylate, cuprous oxide and co-biocide combination provides outstanding protection that has exceeded side by side raft trials against traditional ablative cuprous oxide based formulations.

Recommended Uses

Altex Yacht & Boat Surfacer Undercoat is designed for use in above water areas only.

It can be used:

• As a surfacing and build coat in the Single Component topsides marine paint system.
• As an adhesion/surfacing coat directly to suitably prepared fibre-glass gel-coat.
• Direct to suitably prepared and sealed timber for cabin interiors.
• As a tie coat and upgrade on existing sound enamel finishes after correct preparation

Features

• Proven performance over many years in all above water applications
• Good long term sandability
• Excellent long term re-coatability with itself
• May be used direct on suitably prepared gel-coat
• Good cure response and sandability make Altex Surfacer Undercoat an excellent surfacing medium to cover minor scratches etc 

• Timbercote is designed for use on all marine bright work. 
• Can be successfully applied to teak provided strict de-oiling measures are observed
• May be used to upgrade existing sound varnish systems
• Can be applied over prepared timber sealed with Epoxy TimberSealer or Epoxy Resin

Advantages:

• Single pack clear finish
• Proven performance over many years
• Excellent flow and wet look finish
• Specifically formulated for exterior beautification and protection of most timbers
• A tough resin coupled with high levels of UV absorber assures lasting protection in marine use
• Correctly applied Timbercote has the longest lasting finish of all competitive single pack varnishes tested
• Excellent application characteristics

Solvent-free patching compound used for repairing pits, cracks and voids in steel, concrete, wood and other surfaces. Has the unique ability to be mixed, applied and cured underwater.
 

MTO. Imported line subject to availability.