3 years in the Tyne on £40 antifouling from ebay

[BruceDanforth]

The boat ended up staying in the water much longer than expected due to breaking my hand last year and then needing surgery to fix it this year.

I was expecting weed, mussels and loads of barnacles but there was just a heavy sliming which jetwashed straight off. There wasn't much paint left though....

The antifouling was XM's cx2000

 

[NickRobinson]

I've had two years out of XM. From the (apparently dreaded) Marine Megastore, cheap and promptly delivered.

I guess the throughput of water is relatively low where you are too?

Do you think that sunken hull in the corner of St Peter's could use a bit of AF....

 

[dylanwinter]

that is pretty good given the weed on some other long termers in your marina

I have XM on Harmony at the moment

I enjoyed the tyne - apart from the twassocks chucking rocks at me

D

 

[Daydream believer]

What did it look like after you cleaned the carp off???

 

[BruceDanforth]

Like this:

What did it look like after you cleaned the carp off???

 

[Biggles Wader]

they must have cleaned up the Tyne since I used to inhabit the area.You used to be able to kill anything that grew by immersing it in the river.

 

[Ship's Cat 73]

Before lifting out, did the yacht stay afloat, or did the keels and lower hull sink into the mud at low water?

At low water our yacht still has 5m depth in a Clyde marina and there's a substantial green beard around the waterline and particularly on the transom hung rudder already ~ and that's only since mid-April. (and YES ~ it WAS antifouled immediately before relaunch.)

Note to self: As this has been our first year of yacht ownership must ask other marina users for A/F recommendations.

Will be having a serious look at XM.

 

[Langrick1]

I can't say how significant it may be but a few years ago my daughter did a study for her degree on the contents of the bed of the river Tyne. Most of the findings were over my head but part of looked at a small bay on the north bank not far upstream from Royal Quays. The area down from that point had a lot of lead contained in the bed.

It struck me that this lead content could inhibit the growth of marine nastys that hitch a ride on our boats.

Certainly I had less fouling in Royal Quays than I did in Hartlepool

 

[elton]

they must have cleaned up the Tyne since I used to inhabit the area.You used to be able to kill anything that grew by immersing it in the river.

That must have been the 1940s was it? Other rivers would have been been worse than the Tyne.

All rivers in England are now governed by exactly the same laws. All are pretty much the same in terms of pollution.

 

[BruceDanforth]

Before lifting out, did the yacht stay afloat, or did the keels and lower hull sink into the mud at low water?

At low water our yacht still has 5m depth in a Clyde marina and there's a substantial green beard around the waterline and particularly on the transom hung rudder already ~ and that's only since mid-April. (and YES ~ it WAS antifouled immediately before relaunch.)

Note to self: As this has been our first year of yacht ownership must ask other marina users for A/F recommendations.

Will be having a serious look at XM.

She stays afloat at low water with about a metre below the keels. The marina is a few miles up river so she is in a mixture of salt and fresh water. We lifted a friend's boat on Saturday which was a few miles up the coast at Blyth - that had been in for a year and had more fouling. I think it is the location rather than the paint.