Dirty Bum

[jimi]

Boat's started to go slow, think it cos there's a garden underneath, so as far as I can see there's four options

1) Boatscrubber
2) Lift & Scrub
3) Scrubbing berth
4) Diver

Which option would you go for and why?


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[claymore]

Lift and scrub
You can afford it
You can do it so it will be done properly
You can have a look and see if there are any dinks or problems
You can give the paddlewheel a spin and a lubrication
The exercise will do you good

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[Aja]

Thought this was an extension of Claymores' personal hygiene post above.

How slow is slow?

Donald

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[Bejasus]

I suppose it would depend on whether you intend coming out(Fnarr, fnarr), at the end of the season or not.

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[Evadne]

Lift and scrub, and get the yard to do it during the week, if the expense is not prohibitive. Any other option involves the loss of a weekend's sailing. Having tried and failed to motor past the chain ferry in Cowes agin a spring ebb, with the hanging gardens of Babylon attached in October a few years ago, I might even have to do it myself this year!

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[Twister_Ken]

Do it proper. Scrubbing piles. Whilst we are on the subject of bums.

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[Mirelle]

Piles

Yes.

In my case (37ft long keel boat, skint owner)...

Diver not practical.

Doubtful aboat boat scrubber

Cheapest marina "midseason deal" for a lift out and pressure wash (but no painting allowed, and no time to pull and grease seacocks) Pds 65. A really good eal, but.....

Scrubbing posts Pds 10, can scrub both sides, do the seacocks, rub down with wet and dry and fresh water and get a coat of antifouling on one side on one tide.

(Therefore sides get painted alternately during the season - scrub one side and paint the other each time.)

If feeling really mean, having a long keeled boat, I just shove her on a shingly bit of foreshore and dry out - cost nil.

Scrubbing off on posts is traditional and fun - but probably not for fin keelers.

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[Chris_Rayner]

Fin Keel Piles au contraire

Mon brave. I have put a Sonata on the piles at Hayling Island Sailing Club in the dark singlehanded. A bit of a do, but by no means impossible. Provided you don't pile all the kit in the cockpit or forepeak she should settle nicely down on the keel and you will have time to scrub her off and even put another coat of antifoul on if it's a dry breezy day and she's not too enormous.

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[Mirelle]

Re: Fin Keel Piles au contraire

Bravo!

I usually end up finishing off the boot top trying to work from the Avon! I usually do it singlehanded also (but not in the dark!). Getting on is usually easier than getting off, I find. Posts seem generally to have been arranged so that the tide tends to set you onto them just a little, which I suppose is a safety feature.

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[Peppermint]

"Peppermint" is out on wednesday for it's bum tickling. MDL's special rate of £72 finishes end of August. Is £72 a decent rate for an 8m boat out scrub and back?

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[Ohdrat]

Re: Piles

We don't have Piles up here .. least I've never seen any.. not even on the Clyde, only rocks.. have thought about those telescopic leg things.. anybody had any experience of them?

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