boat covered in black sooty stuff

[Firefly625]

been down to Seabird today to sort a few bits out and having washed the boat really well just 2 weeks ago it was covered in black streaks and when I started wiping the boat over I realised that the whole boat was a grey colour. A chap went past and commented that all the boats were covered in black oily soot and we surmised it was the Solent power station or fawley refinery kicking out some real pollution and covering all the boats in the Hamble...

sorry to be the bearer of bad news....

don't you just love it!

 

[AllanG]

+1 for me too.........just spent the afternoon deep washing my Nimbus.........not exactly what I had planned!!

Allan

 

[benjenbav]

I'm a bad person I'm afraid.

I do feel for you guys but, honestly, my first thought on reading this was:

Yeeehaaa! I'm to the west of all that.

Ahem, terribly sorry for you Hamble Ramblers and all.

 

[lisilou]

Noooooooo!!! We washed her last week. Dammit!!

 

[rich]

Solent power station or fawley refinery kicking out some real pollution and covering all the boats in the Hamble...

Ask them to use Soltron,

 

[Firefly625]

Lisilou and AllanG... come on guys, you both have just got lovely new boats, its the honeymoon period when you should be washing them every week....and enjoying it!

 

[epervier]

we surmised it was the Solent power station or fawley refinery kicking out some real pollution and covering all the boats in the Hamble...

I doubt if it was the power station, the fall out from the main chimney makes land fall in Holland and because of the clean air act they only use the four GT units these days,and the main boilers haven't been fired as they haven't generated for months, but I did notice that the refinery was chucking out some heavy pollution under the cover of darkness the other night. I live just 500 metres from their fence.

arse covering statement:-

but I not saying it was either, as I have no proof.

Edit, the image you've used is years old we now have a pontoon on the dock head and I've moved my mooring closer to the middle of the channel,which is the second one out on the south side.

 

[Giblets]

One of the joys of being on the Hamble. This problem has been around for years.

 

[Firefly625]

One of the joys of being on the Hamble. This problem has been around for years.

well indeed, certainly not a unique occurrence but its the worse I have seen it in quite a while...

 

[Firefly625]

I doubt if it was the power station, the fall out from the main chimney makes land fall in Holland and because of the clean air act they only use the four GT units these days,and the main boilers haven't been fired as they haven't generated for months, but I did notice that the refinery was chucking out some heavy pollution under the cover of darkness the other night. I live just 500 metres from their fence.

arse covering statement:-

but I not saying it was either, as I have no proof.

Edit, the image you've used is years old we now have a pontoon on the dock head and I've moved my mooring closer to the middle of the channel,which is the second one out on the south side.

thanks for in interesting insight Epervier,

and folk say the UK doesn't produce anything anymore...

 

[oldgit]

In the past the coal fired Kingsnorth power station on the Hoo peninsula in Kent was responsible for similar events.However curiously not in the recent past.
A plan to capture the carbon from the plant and pipe it back under the North Sea has been cancelled.
The power station is nearing the end of its useful life and will have to be demolished,will miss it,the chimney is very useful for finding your way back home to the Medway when coming down the East coast.Watching it slowly appear over the horizion was always and sign that Sheerness was not far away.

 

[lisilou]

I wasn't at the boat yesterday but Chris was and he says there was no dirt or anything on our boat....or maybe he just didn't notice.

 

[Firefly625]

I wasn't at the boat yesterday but Chris was and he says there was no dirt or anything on our boat....or maybe he just didn't notice.

perhaps it floated over Hamble Point and landed at Mercury.... lucky you

 

[lisilou]

perhaps it floated over Hamble Point and landed at Mercury.... lucky you

 

[epervier]

thanks for in interesting insight Epervier,

and folk say the UK doesn't produce anything anymore...

Technically, the station isn't British, the Germans own it now

along with the French who import nuclear generated electricity and sell to us, the consumers, under the EDF banner, making a farce of the anti nuclear lobby, part of the south coast water is owned by a Singapore company, Sembcorp Industries Ltd.

So yes it would seem we don't produce much, other than paper.

 

[henryf]

We were on the boat last weekend and ours was terrible. We're based in Gosport. We'd had the boat cleaned less than 2 weeks prior so I know it was clean. We were actually on the boat as it was cleaned for the first time so it probably got the wash of it's life!!!

I went to Southampton town Quay and washed it there, this wasn't just a bit of dirt, the thing was black. Something very odd happened. I put it down to the Gunwharf fireworks which happened just after we had it cleaned, either that or the works currently being carried out at the submarine museum.

Either way something isn't right!

Henry

 

[IDAMAY]

Not sure it's either to blame

We had exactly the same problem down here in Falmouth. Grey soot and black streaks everywhere - yuk. We have had mainly south easterly winds for ages now so I blame the contintentals!

 

[Firefly625]

We had exactly the same problem down here in Falmouth. Grey soot and black streaks everywhere - yuk. We have had mainly south easterly winds for ages now so I blame the contintentals!

excellent, so do I!

The fact the own the Fawley power station etc, means that whatever it may be, i still blame the continentals

 

[Firefly625]

We were on the boat last weekend and ours was terrible. We're based in Gosport. We'd had the boat cleaned less than 2 weeks prior so I know it was clean. We were actually on the boat as it was cleaned for the first time so it probably got the wash of it's life!!!

I went to Southampton town Quay and washed it there, this wasn't just a bit of dirt, the thing was black. Something very odd happened. I put it down to the Gunwharf fireworks which happened just after we had it cleaned, either that or the works currently being carried out at the submarine museum.

Either way something isn't right!

Henry

glade it wasn't just me!

 

[David_J]

Same in Brighton

Serious clean three weeks ago. This weekend the whole boat really dirty with black spots and streaks. Some so bad they will not wash off. Will have to polish them out.