ss2016
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My boat was lifted today. Before the boat was jetwashed the outdrive was horrendous. The tabs also. See the picture. Worse than previous years, presumably the result of only 50 hrs use rather than the 100 previously.

After jetwashing there are still plenty of baby limpets mussels and tubeworms clinging on. I want to coat it in Hempel Ecopower and see if that leaves it looking better next year. My question is what can I clean it with? Presumably brick cleaner is a no-no because much of the drive I presume is aluminium. I can of course just abraid it but that will damage the existing VP grey paint. What is the 'normal' process.
PS Thinking about it perhaps the reason for the abundant growth is the water temp. being considerably higher than previous years.

After jetwashing there are still plenty of baby limpets mussels and tubeworms clinging on. I want to coat it in Hempel Ecopower and see if that leaves it looking better next year. My question is what can I clean it with? Presumably brick cleaner is a no-no because much of the drive I presume is aluminium. I can of course just abraid it but that will damage the existing VP grey paint. What is the 'normal' process.
PS Thinking about it perhaps the reason for the abundant growth is the water temp. being considerably higher than previous years.
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