Anti Fouling How Long..............

[chrisgee]

How long can you leave new anti fouling on before launching I may be looking at 8 - 10 weeks if that will be ok?

 

[Seajet]

I believe 3 months prior to launching is OK, so you should be fine.

Usually people have the opposite problem, antifouling at the last minute and the still wet stuff getting onto hoist slings, a sure way to become deeply unpopular !

 

[VicS]

It depends to some extent on the A/F you are using and the ambient temperature. Check what the product data sheet on the manufacturers website says .

Cruiser Uno for example is 3 months at 5-15C but only 1 month at 35C

 

[prv]

Usually people have the opposite problem, antifouling at the last minute and the still wet stuff getting onto hoist slings, a sure way to become deeply unpopular !

I hear some posh marinas put fresh plastic sleeves over the slings for each boat. Seems a bit like something out of a ladies' beauty salon to me

Pete

 

[dylanwinter]

not used it

I hear some posh marinas put fresh plastic sleeves over the slings for each boat. Seems a bit like something out of a ladies' beauty salon to me

Pete

not used the infernal stuff on the hull for two years now

the slug is small, triple keel and goes aground a lot

if you want to see what it looks like - two half half hearted scrubs a year



I miss that immaculate look of the hull...

but I have sved myself £40 and I feel better about the environment

Dylan

 

[VicS]

not used the infernal stuff on the hull for two years now

the slug is small, triple keel and goes aground a lot

if you want to see what it looks like - two half half hearted scrubs a year



I miss that immaculate look of the hull...

but I have sved myself £40 and I feel better about the environment

Dylan

You are lucky. The slug looks cleaner than my boat does and that was pressure washed when it was hauled out last September.

I must admit that barnacles have not been so much of a problem over the last two or three years but previously the inside faces of the keels and the bottom between the keels have been covered with a continuous sheet of them.

 

[dylanwinter]

I have a theory

You are lucky. The slug looks cleaner than my boat does and that was pressure washed when it was hauled out last September.

I must admit that barnacles have not been so much of a problem over the last two or three years but previously the inside faces of the keels and the bottom between the keels have been covered with a continuous sheet of them.

I think that old toxin expended anti-foul with its slightly chalky surface makes a great substrate for the gloop and barncales to settle on and also make them harder to clean off

the longer I have been since abandonning the stuff the cleaner the boat is and the easier it is to scrub

I wonder if we have been subject to a bit of a con and we would be better off with raw, easy to clean shiny GRP

just a theory

I for one am never going back to antti-foul unless I end up with a deep keeler on pontoon some-where

Dylan

 

[prv]

I wonder if we have been subject to a bit of a con and we would be better off with raw, easy to clean shiny GRP

When I take KS's mast down, all the weight that was up forward is instead evenly distributed along the boat. Since I drain the (forward) water tank and empty the focsle locker at the same time, the net result is that she squats at the stern and puts a couple of inches of un-antifouled GRP underwater.

Last autumn, for one reason and another, we left her out of commission afloat for a couple of months before hauling out. When she did come out, that strip of fibreglass already had a fair crop of barnacles on it.

I think my antifoul is necessary.

Pete

 

[rafiki_]

My Jotun spec says 2 weeks max.