dhmeissner
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Love that picture...
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Given the choice a smooth prop out trumps a smooth bottom perhaps 2-1
FYI to all who believe otherwise- anti fouling paint has a lifespan, and it is typically 2-3 years. That's the length of time these products are designed to last. Beyond that, they have leached out enough of their biocide to become essentially ineffective. Some of you claiming dramatically longer performance from your paint probably either boat in areas where fouling is very low, or you simply do not realise how foul your bottom actually is becoming between cleanings.
The question is; why would you allow your boat to have one without the other?
At our dock, ALLIGATORS can be 12 to 14 ft.
I guess we are priviledged in a way because we need to haul boats about every 5-6 months. The hardness of the water being a factor that limits boating in the meantime. No need for divers unless something goes seriously wrong.
Most of us also put additional layer of bottompaint every spring, in my experience the paint does not last well while hauled.
Steve, I'm in the LA Harbor and I have always hauled every 2 years. I have a woodie and a couple of haulouts ago I wooded my bottom and gave it 6 coats of epoxy to seal the wood off. Since then I have hauled every three years. I have a monthly diver also and my report says good bottom paint with my last several reports but I am about 34 months on my paint now and I will haul before winter.
Nobody has addressed this and it's probably because they don't paint their boat bottoms. I am a DIY haul out guy and I always add things to my bottom paint.
I have a secret sauce I add and it stops all growth of either crusty barnacle type stuff or grass and slime.
My problem is with the divers. They want to wipe the bottom and not just clean the metal parts.
Where is your marina?
I have a secret sauce I add and it stops all growth of either crusty barnacle type stuff or grass and slime.
Gee, I'm sure the paint manufacturers would love to talk to you. Seems their tens of millions of dollars and decades spent on R&D haven't been able to produce what you apparently were able to whip up in the kitchen sink.
Gee, I'm sure the paint manufacturers would love to talk to you. Seems their tens of millions of dollars and decades spent on R&D haven't been able to produce what you apparently were able to whip up in the kitchen sink.
FB - Paint mfgers don't want their bottom paint to be toooo good, i.e. last tooo long - that = less sales for them.
Does anyone know what type of copper is in bottom paint ? As in is it copper sulfate or another type ?
Asked the local diver what the visibility in the Vallejo Marina waters was. He said eight inches and sometimes more. Seems like a tough job for cleaning/inspecting boat bottoms.
Copper sulfate is used in anti fouling paint but more commonly the biocide is cuprous oxide, I believe.
Asked the local diver what the visibility in the Vallejo Marina waters was. He said eight inches and sometimes more. Seems like a tough job for cleaning/inspecting boat bottoms.
fb - Nice videos and good job! Why do you place shaft zinc next to each other... special reason for that? I separate them on my boats by couple feet. Probably same protection gained??
Red Pepper, A cup to a gallon, the hotter the better to my bottom paint when doing my prior wood boat "Tenacious". it was attributed to commercial fishermen of which a high number use this in the 50's and 60's. Did it work?...