Thanks. I just ordered my pound this morning. I'm going to run a similar test: I'm going to make up some fiberglass panels and coat them with various paints (WR-LPU, mono and poly-urethanes), varnishes, graphite, hBN, etc. then do some empirical tests as well (drag them across some rocks, soak them in brine, whatever). For my main test I'm planning on using the hBH this spring on the hull of a Njord. It's going to be used up and down the East coast. It'll be a good test. I was thinking I'll do like I did with my white BP and tint my epoxy white from the start. I'll use tinted epoxy for the seal coat, neat for the laminating the cloth, then all the fill coats would be epoxy, hBN and white pigment. I should be able to polish it to a nice sheen. For the deck we're planning on using automotive urethanes (base, color and clearcoats). They have such neat colors!

Thanks for the update,

Dan

: havent heard anything from Mr R. N Pruden...., my test panels didnt show
: particular problems until i added a dye to the stuff, color consistency
: was one of the problems but thats the dye messing up. On an hull i think
: ill want a light wood to not have to add too much of the stuff to have a
: decent consistent coverage. Other than that empirical tests (dragging a
: wheighted panel on the garage floor) show the same
: "performances" of the black stuff, pads made of epoxy and the
: two graphites seem to offer the same low friction when used as bearings.
: The stuff is going on my hulls once done, always hated the black bottoms.