Fastbottoms, avert your eyes!
- Thread starter shemandr
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Also too funny. Too much time thinking about sailing as opposed to actually sailing? This is one of those pictures you should kick out to the SBO membership for captioning...
3 years without bottom paint, shallow slip in Florida, no movement since 2013....priceless...natural sea anchors installed.
In Washington, we will soon be mandated no copper paint on recreational boats. I made the mistake of trying Micron CF and it worked great for about a year (had soft growth but not hard.) After the year the soft growth wouldn't come off.
Disappointed, I repainted this last September.
Ken
Spray growth with bleach and it will die before your eyes and then scrape or rub off after hosing it down. Chief
As you can see in the pic, the growth is being removed with a large scraper, undoubtably to be followed by a pressure washer. Does it scrape off easily? Not by the looks of the guy putting his weight into the scraper.
Around here, the yard would probably require the boat be cleaned prior to hauling out.
Avery your
The newer growth on the hull looks to be six or eight inches above the top of the bottom paint. Who knows how to calculate what all that growth would have to weigh to raise the waterline so much on a boat this size?
There is no way the weight of the fouling growth raised the waterline like that. That boat was full of water.
Avery your
The newer growth on the hull looks to be six or eight inches above the top of the bottom paint. Who knows how to calculate what that growth would have to weigh to raise the waterline so much on a boat this size?