Beached our boat yesterday

[Quidi Vidi]

Hi just thought i would put up a few pics of our beaching yesterday, as you can see the hull was a mass of barnacles and sea squirts, some 6" long. Guess the anti foul isn't as good as it could be, it was Blakes cruising anti foul, may try something different next time we beach in a few weeks time.
And no my SWMBO is not for sale or hire, get yer own! It's taken me years to train her to this standard. Unfortunately i don't have any waders so i had to direct operations from the cockpit or wait untill the tide was down to wellie height.

 

[BruceDanforth]

Hi just thought i would put up a few pics of our beaching yesterday, as you can see the hull was a mass of barnacles and sea squirts, some 6" long. Guess the anti foul isn't as good as it could be, it was Blakes cruising anti foul, may try something different next time we beach in a few weeks time.
And no my SWMBO is not for sale or hire, get yer own! It's taken me years to train her to this standard. Unfortunately i don't have any waders so i had to direct operations from the cockpit or wait untill the tide was down to wellie height.

Was that after 1 year?

 

[Quidi Vidi]

Was that after 1 year?

We can't remember exactly but we think between 8 and 10 months ago

 

[dylanwinter]

give up antifoul

beach the boat more often for a scrub

it is great fun - it gets easier the more you do it

good excercise

it is cheap

this is the slug

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8-Ygf2rUzU

D

 

[onesea]

We can't remember exactly but we think between 8 and 10 months ago

Have to say I had same problem the other end of the Solent this year. Not had so many deadmans fingers..

 

[patturner]

Looks to me to be the perfect woman !!
If she,s not for sale, any chance of borrowing her for a couple of days????

 

[Quidi Vidi]

Have to say I had same problem the other end of the Solent this year. Not had so many deadmans fingers..

Which anti foul did you use?

 

[Quidi Vidi]

beach the boat more often for a scrub

it is great fun - it gets easier the more you do it

good excercise

it is cheap

this is the slug

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8-Ygf2rUzU

D

Hi Dylan
We intend to this year, starting in 4 weeks time to apply fresh anti foul. Unfortunately the spot we use is only accessible on spring tides which all seem to be midday or midnight so only give us a few hours to work with before it's dark at the moment. So it was scrub off this time and anti foul next, the more we scrub the more anti foul we lose, how do you get around that problem?

 

[Quidi Vidi]

Looks to me to be the perfect woman !!
If she,s not for sale, any chance of borrowing her for a couple of days????

Sorry mate, I can't have her worn out as I need her again in 4 weeks time, your welcome to borrow the chest waders though!
Incidentally I don't know why they are called chest waders as there's no way her chest is going to fit in there

 

[dylanwinter]

no- antifoul

Hi Dylan
We intend to this year, starting in 4 weeks time to apply fresh anti foul. Unfortunately the spot we use is only accessible on spring tides which all seem to be midday or midnight so only give us a few hours to work with before it's dark at the moment. So it was scrub off this time and anti foul next, the more we scrub the more anti foul we lose, how do you get around that problem?

I think old ant-foul makes a great substrate for stuff to grow on

now that most of the antifould has gone from the slug it is quite smooth

the weed just falls off

barnacles need the back of the brush

try it for a bit without - see how you get on

every month you don;t do it you save money

Dylan

 

[Quidi Vidi]

I think old ant-foul makes a great substrate for stuff to grow on

now that most of the antifould has gone from the slug it is quite smooth

the weed just falls off

barnacles need the back of the brush

try it for a bit without - see how you get on

every month you don;t do it you save money

Dylan

Do you know what Dylan I might just give that a try after all anti foul has to be the biggest con going! I don't know how the manufacturers and swindleries get away with it, they pour a load of bloop into tins and then sell it to mugs like me for lots of squids and does it do what it says on the tin? I think not!
The place we beach is only about 50 metres from our mooring so makes sense to use it more often.

 

[William_H]

Fouling on boats

The fouling really slows a boat down. I could never let mine get to actual noticeable growth.
My A/F is now 4.5 months old. Partly gone from scrubbing and pretty much useless. (I don't put much on)
I always scrub on the mooring by diving/swimming. I am going now to have another go at it. It is 4 days since I scrubbed and we have a race this afternoon. Is that obsessive? Yes but it does matter if she is to beat the big kids in expected light winds today. End of season in about 4 weeks then home.
My SWMBO usually helps the scrub though a lot older than your scrubber. good luck olewill

 

[JKay]

My SWMBO usually helps the scrub though a lot older than your scrubber. good luck olewill

 

[Greenwichman]

Totally agree with you Dylan - have decided to avoid anti-foul on my Hawk 20 too. Regular scrub off does the trick, saves £££ and better for the ecology ....

 

[Blueboatman]

In the Caribbean i foind that once the anti fouling was gone in places, needed to dive on it every three days to stop new growth. At 5 days you could feel the wee new barnacles and had to put more effort into it....
But, nice water temp and clear so that with rowing ashore kept one fit

 

[Greenwichman]

Barnacles ......

In the Caribbean i foind that once the anti fouling was gone in places, needed to dive on it every three days to stop new growth. At 5 days you could feel the wee new barnacles and had to put more effort into it....
But, nice water temp and clear so that with rowing ashore kept one fit

Oh, yes, racing back from Rio to Portsmouth some years back we spent almost 2 weeks on the starboard tack beating into the NE Trades, at speeds never less than 6 knots and often faster. When eventually we went about, the hull above the antifoul was covered in barnacles. Quite a surprise and also a bit dismaying in terms of performance!

 

[dylanwinter]

become a sllug srubber

Do you know what Dylan I might just give that a try after all anti foul has to be the biggest con going! I don't know how the manufacturers and swindleries get away with it, they pour a load of bloop into tins and then sell it to mugs like me for lots of squids and does it do what it says on the tin? I think not!
The place we beach is only about 50 metres from our mooring so makes sense to use it more often.

what have you got to lose......

becoming a scrubber means that you get involved in a bit of effort

nothing wrong with that I reckon

most of us could do with the excercise and lieing in the detritus under a bilge keeler having anti-foul dribble onto your face is no fun



what have you got to gain

a bit of fitness

money saved on anti-foul

that warm feeling you get from being on the side of the whelks

I would much rather spend half an hour aground slug scrubbing on a lovely hard or up a creek than I would rolling around in the gravel in a boat yard while the bloke next door with the steel ketch is grizzly disking his rust patches



Dylan

 

[Quidi Vidi]

what have you got to lose......

becoming a scrubber means that you get involved in a bit of effort

nothing wrong with that I reckon

most of us could do with the excercise and lieing in the detritus under a bilge keeler having anti-foul dribble onto your face is no fun



what have you got to gain

a bit of fitness

money saved on anti-foul

that warm feeling you get from being on the side of the whelks

I would much rather spend half an hour aground slug scrubbing on a lovely hard or up a creek than I would rolling around in the gravel in a boat yard while the bloke next door with the steel ketch is grizzly disking his rust patches



Dylan

You've convinced us Dylan, to be honest we'd already pretty much made our minds up to do that this year anyway. We've never put the boat into into a yard yet or employed anyone to fix anything, we do everything ourselves and stay afloat all year round. We make do and mend as much as we can and don't mind getting our hands dirty. We've learnt an awful lot about the boat in the past 4 years that we've owned her and learnt an awful lot about ourselves too, its certainly strengthened our relationship. It also proves that you don't have to be well off to own a boat or enjoy sailing, it breaks my heart when i look at all the boats around me that haven't moved in years and are in hell off a state. The modern AWB next to me for instance has a boom cover/stack pack and canopy that are probably worth as much as my boat, they are covered in seagull sh*t and mould as is the whole boat. No one has been anywhere near it for years but its probably worth a 1/3 of the value of my house.
Anyway, rant over. Out of interest how often do you need to scrub off?

 

[stuartwineberg]

Go Jotun

At the risk of turning this into a "best antifoul" thread, I have used Jotun SeaQueen and Seaguardian for about five years now in Haslar so the same waters. Lasts 2 years with a wash off at the end of the first year. You get a line of kelp at the waterline but nothing except a thin coat of slime on the rest of the hull. I know the seaquirts are there in Haslar because I found one up the engine water intake!!

It is pretty cheap as well

 

[tidclacy]

At the risk of turning this into a "best antifoul" thread, I have used Jotun SeaQueen and Seaguardian for about five years now in Haslar so the same waters. Lasts 2 years with a wash off at the end of the first year. You get a line of kelp at the waterline but nothing except a thin coat of slime on the rest of the hull. I know the seaquirts are there in Haslar because I found one up the engine water intake!!

It is pretty cheap as well

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