Do you stick to the Speed limit in your boat

Have you ever exceeded the Speed limit in your motor boat

  • Yes I have

    Votes: 19 38.8%

  • No I havnt

    Votes: 30 61.2%
  • Total voters
    49
I really do keep to the limits, yesterday in the Beaulieu River, 6knot / low wash, when some complete f&**ing tool in a red RIB ( I rather hope he's reading this) comes past in in the opposite direction doing 20knots, see's the harbour master and opens it up to 30+ , he was a good 2 miles before the end of the river/ end of the speed limit and pissing everyone off who's moored up for a quite afternoon.

Limits are there for a reason, so get out of the limits areas when you want to blat. Rant over :)
 
No it wasn't BP, (I posted this reply before I saw his other thread and wasn't having a go at him in any way) it was just two young lads in a rib, play nicely everyone
 
My RIB is on the drive atm, and I’m a bit busy copper coating the thing in my avatar. It’s really not me?
Well, someone else has sanded and painted, but I’ve taken her to bits and reassembled. Beware of Dragonfly 920s speeding. At least I make no wash.
 
Robin said:
As others have already said the gear sticks are your friend. Wash in Lymington damages the shallow banks, causes annoyance to the many moored and maybe rafted up boats. We have had a saucepan of scalding hot water slide off the stove on the Dan Bran pontoonby a wash from an inconsiderate RIB, and some of the charter fishing and dive boats out of LYH can be a real PITA. wash wise. elderly paddle boarders youngsters in optimist dinghies etc deserve respect also. I have only ever found Lymington harbour staff both considerate and knowledgable rather than officious.
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Since he spoke to me four hours after we arrived perhaps he got the wrong boat.
 
Chiara’s slave said:
I had one of the trial Silic one treated XODs. It wasn’t the best experience. The boat did 44 races that season, so hardly sat idle.
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Ah that looks like a sailboat....

You need 20 knots for self cleaning.

I recall that they have altered their marketing material to that effect.

It's a powerboat coating really.....

I got 3 seasons use and would have had a 4th had I not sold my boat. One single coat would have given me another 3 years so a bargain.
 
What we found was that once any growth got any traction, it could not be got rid of. The boat wintered in a shed, we’d re coat in the spring, and maybe it was spores in the previous coat, but growth would start within a couple of weeks of launch, and could not be removed, not even with a jet wash on the crane.
 
Chiara’s slave said:
What we found was that once any growth got any traction, it could not be got rid of. The boat wintered in a shed, we’d re coat in the spring, and maybe it was spores in the previous coat, but growth would start within a couple of weeks of launch, and could not be removed, not even with a jet wash on the crane.
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That's a very difficult experience to mine.

A general slime does build up if the boats not used. Either a soft sponge or gentle pressure wash removed it completely. I just had to touch up any mechanical abrasions and relaunch.

Saved ££ as I only needed a lift and hold annually to service the outboard.

Superheat6k used it on his corvette and is going to do his new Grandbanks
 
It’s most likely as you say, a speed thing. The bloody stuff got established, and that was the result. If you don’t get bad in the first place, maybe you don’t get that issue.
 
Chiara’s slave said:
It’s most likely as you say, a speed thing. The bloody stuff got established, and that was the result. If you don’t get bad in the first place, maybe you don’t get that issue.
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I suspect they have refined the formulation as well.

I achieved a 1.5 knot speed increase compared to antifouling as well.
 
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