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Several of us have grouped together the last few years to negotiate a deal on boat scrubs , the more that join the cheaper it will be.
All I ask is you donate £10 to charity .
Here’s how it works.
You donate £10 to charity, send me a pm and I will let you know the charity and the secret location in the Solent along with the date to coincide with a popular and well known charity event.


This has to be kept quiet in order to avoid free loading skin flints joining in without contributing.
We all know salt water is alkaline and all marine growth is killed as soon as ph is altered.
The last few years 5 of us have crammed into a lock, bunged the lock keeper a bottle of scotch and then spent the night in the lock after tipping a barrel of Hydrochloric acid in.
There was a bit of a hick up last year when we all overslept and a raggie expected exclusive use of the lock to catch an early tide, hence this year we are thinking MUCH BIGGER .........

We all book in to a small locked marina for a weekend and then each
Pour 25 L of hydrochloric acid in before we spend the evening down the local, /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif
dancing on table later too. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

Buy 5 x 5 L of these
The more the better and stronger the solution will be, we do not need to make it acetic, just slighter alter the ph to kill the growth and leave sparkling clean props.
Anyone not based in the solent can arrange their own event
Locally to them, other ideal marinas include Gillingham, Amble, the list is endless
And please think about helping charity. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
Friendly warning: do NOT, I repeat NOT get drunk and fall asleep.

This happened to me the last time we did this, and after emerging from the lock, the following day I found that the steering was pulling to port continually.

The cause of this was eventually found:

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I'd say you had some fun explaining that to the insurance!

Personally i'd just put on the scuba gear and go scrubbing... each to their own
 
its interesting how the coriolis force makes the heavier, more acidic water go over to the eastern side of the lock. I guess you were facing north? Would explain the port leg being worst affected.
 
Well, since you are adding the acid to the water, rather than the reverse, you obviously know what you are doing.

Count me in!

I assume this is a valid-one-day-only offer?
 
Might be a bit wastefull, as it will get diluted and most of it will end up as antifoul of the lock walls.

But the marina of Bruinisse has a swimming pool close to the pontoons. We could fill that with antifoul, and then crane the clean yachts to the pool, dip them in antifoul (including props, excluding sounders) and put them back in the water.

Hang on, I'll make a few calls.
 
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Any chance we can find another lock and fill it with antifoul?

Make things easier all round.......!

My tenner on its way.

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What you need is a inland waterway set of locks, maybe fill the first with oxalic acid and splash it around a bit. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 
Well done to sailorman and Kilter for being first to spot this as a ringer, and thanks to S28 for a true classic response /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
I thought some great suggestions followed resulting in Bendyones final solution , just shows when you combine enough clever minds together what can be achieved. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
Seeing as it is past noon on April 1st should it be deleted in case some one actually tries it ?

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