My berthing port is Sausalito. Three miles North of the Golden Gate Bridge.
I engage a diver service to do quarterly (approximate) bottom cleanings/inspections.
But between these "official" cleanings, I also brush the bottom myself with an assortment strait and curved poles terminating with a stiff Nylon/StainlessSteel bristle swimming pool brush. Get's maybe 80% of the bottom.
I brushed yesterday for the first time is a couple of months. First thing I noticed was that the "fuzz" of growth looked different than normal. Second, that upon brushing, the "fuzz" sloughed away from the hull easily without the usual repeated up/down brushing.
Anybody else on SF Bay notice different bottom growth this year?
I expect that the bay's normal algae flora is disrupted by all the fresh water that is flowing into the bay from the extraordinary wet winter this year. Certainly some of the fresh water is from local run-off. But primarily it's from the near panic releases of rain, and snow melt, that has overwhelmed spillways of hundreds of Sierra reservoirs.
I engage a diver service to do quarterly (approximate) bottom cleanings/inspections.
But between these "official" cleanings, I also brush the bottom myself with an assortment strait and curved poles terminating with a stiff Nylon/StainlessSteel bristle swimming pool brush. Get's maybe 80% of the bottom.
I brushed yesterday for the first time is a couple of months. First thing I noticed was that the "fuzz" of growth looked different than normal. Second, that upon brushing, the "fuzz" sloughed away from the hull easily without the usual repeated up/down brushing.
Anybody else on SF Bay notice different bottom growth this year?
I expect that the bay's normal algae flora is disrupted by all the fresh water that is flowing into the bay from the extraordinary wet winter this year. Certainly some of the fresh water is from local run-off. But primarily it's from the near panic releases of rain, and snow melt, that has overwhelmed spillways of hundreds of Sierra reservoirs.