Les- See if you can get Sea Hawk Islands 44+ It works and most of the sailboat crowd uses it here in the Eastern Carib. You can get it in most of the Eastern Caribbean islands. Nothing beats TBT and without it you will be scraping often. If you cruise over 10 knots or so you may have to use a hard paint. Sitting for a month or two shouldn't accumulate anything other than a harmless scum which will disappear once you get underway again. We, too used Petitt Trinidad in the Southeast US but it does not work here. How far East in the Caribbean are you coming? Regards, John "Seahorse" Hello Warm Water Cruisers, I am in Costa Rica and will be entering the canal zone in a couple of weeks. Meanwhile my bottom paint applied in Newport Calif in Oct/07 is doing miserably. I will probably get the bottom in Panama or Cartegena before I leave the area. I had convinced myself that a hard bottom paint was the way to go since I'm having to clean the bottom every month. With the ablative I just see mucho dollars going up in a cloud. I guess the argument could be that if the ablative had enough copper/tin additives the scrubbing wouldn't need to take place. Well we aren't on the move all the time so the self polishing lags a bit when we are "smelling the roses" for a month or two at a time. Curious as to what is the common practice where high content biocides are available? Hard or soft? I was told by Shelter Bay Marina that they have a very hard ablative with all the additives. Is this a good compromise. The next potential haul out will be in a year, probably stateside. Thanks, Les Dobbe "Voyager" Cocos, Costa Rica **************Wondering what's for Dinner Tonight? Get new twists on family favorites at AOL Food. (http://food.aol.com/dinner-tonight?NCID=aolfod00030000000001)