Delayed pressure wash on lift

[RJJ]

Normally we pressure wash upon lift out.

This year for various reasons there will be around a 3 week delay. Will it still "work", or will I be left with a concrete like layer of barnacles and other dried on critters/plants?

Thanks

 

[SailingDog]

Normally we pressure wash upon lift out.

This year for various reasons there will be around a 3 week delay. Will it still "work", or will I be left with a concrete like layer of barnacles and other dried on critters/plants?

Thanks

If the sun decides to come out for a few days removing old anti foul and barnacles will be harder in my experience.
Might be worth bribing someone to do it, yard,friend whoever is willing and available.

 

[Corribee Boy]

Probably depends on the exact nature of the fouling but in my experience, if the crud's allowed to dry it can set like concrete, and be very hard to shift. It defies all the usual things and demands a huge amount of elbow grease to get it off. Avoid like the plague!

 

[alahol2]

It certainly helps if you can keep it moist in some way. Even giving it a quick spray with a hose pipe once a week can help.

 

[adwuk]

Who is doing the lift out? Most yards offer to pressure wash as soon as the boat is out of the water. Definitely worth the money if you can't do it.

 

[James_Calvert]

If you were planning to rub down with wet and dry anyway, it won't make much difference. Wet it, and keep it wet of course. Expect yourself to get dirtier and smellier though.

And you will have saved the cost/effort of the pressure wash.

 

[jwilson]

Definitely much better to do it as or immediately after the boat is lifted out. Apart from dried up tubeworm/barnacles I have found that modern eroding antifoul is easier to lightly wet sand to key the next coat if done the same day the boat is lifted out. The yard fiercely pressure washes off in the slings, but not again after the boat is chocked off ashore - so two big stripes of un-washed areas where the slings were. I rarely have more than the very occasional barnacle despite only one thin coat of (quality) AF a year but everything is easier if done within hours of the liftout. You notice this if you fail to do it, when you come to re-AF in the spring!

 

[Misterbreeze]

Don't leave it......not a mistake I'll ever make again.

 

[Neeves]

Why not cut out the anguish - go and hire a pressure wash and

Do it yourself

Jonathan