Help reqd for Riviera slavery next week

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Git!

I am already being treated as mad foreigner by the yard who ae amused at nutter a) bodging own boat and b) using elizabethan technolgy

Anyway, it is thick foil, so quite bendy and plastic, sort of like lead but much thinner. It is self adhesive on one side. I have no idea wot happens around the tricky bits, but i can cut it up and its fine to overlap it. I have slightly lost my nerve regarding quantities and phonedem this morning for some extra sale or return to which they sed ok. The man in the yard poopoo'd it as he could mark it with a finger nail BUT he wasn't at all sure AND i reckon twill be fine cos i mean if you sliced off a thin layer of antifoul paint it would be much weaker and fall to bits it you jabbed at it with a fingernail, probably.

Electrickery wise won't this be ok, like a lightning conductor on a house? I mean, with a big fat lump of copper underneath then the electrickery will whizz of thataway and over to your uncopperish boat won't it? Hopefully, like most people, the lightning won't understand high voltage physics and will get confused by the copper under the boat.



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Wheres the other 5??
Nice touch, Double spars to gea it strenght, scared it may fall apart?

Or was it just the recovered seat ya did??



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Acshully the upholstery wiz jist a piece of opportunism ... Claggie McLuckie sat doon on it with his kilt on when the varnish wiz still wet, so Ah jis tidied the edges up a wee bit!

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Well, you can certainly mark erodable antifoul paint with your finger nail so I cant see the copper being any worse in that respect. Actually having paid for 2 lift outs and 2 divers last year at huge cost, I'm very interested in your results myself
So what's the scientific basis for barnacles not fancying copper then? And what happens if a fish licks the hull? Is it a slow death or is it quick enough for you to whip him out of the water and straight onto the barby


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I read a wilbur smith bok and inamongst the soft porn i found references to the copper on the hull. So, i asked emma to suspend a piece of copper pipe in the water for six weeks and on retrieval not a bit of crustiness on the copper pipe but the string was very crusty indeed. So i reckon this is a winner.

Chemically
CaCl(in suspension) plus CUO2 ==> Cu jimi, you're suspended again.

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Ach, weel i must congratulate ya, Opportunism in ma book is always a winner.



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Won't the gluey backing bit, or whatevers between the boat and the copper insulate it?

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hm, i was cuaght out and sent to the stores for a long stand about 20 years ago BUT

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(world's 2nd worst website after Amisch.com)


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So, you've got to remove the old antifoul (a bastard of a job I can tell you), abrade the gelcoat and then plaster on the copper foil. The website says 7-10 days for a 12m yacht. So, lets say a 23m powerboat has, mmm, lets be optimistic, 3 times the hull area. So thats probably a month you and your slave(s) are going to be away from home, assuming it does'nt rain. Have you told your wives yet?

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The 7-10 days is for a doddery type person, not a swift bodge artist such as moi. Also, i have large flat areas unlike a manky old long keeler with hardly any flat bits for which the longer estimate applies. Also also, the unlikely sounding Reg in antibes says he can rip the old afoul off dead quick with slurry blaster and wham on two coats of epoxy also vair quick. Finally, the esteemed Coliholic has agreed to make a visit so er, that's bound to make the job quick, somehow, maybe.

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Total disaster

hm, well, asking around here has not been a great start! Anyway copperbot is a bit hard to apply. And as you say, this is much more adventurous/daft.

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That website says 7-10 days for a nice smooth bottomed 12m yacht - you reckon you will get you 23m boat with lots of crinkly bits done in less than half the time?

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Ah well, you didnt say that. If Coliholic is around to provide sarcastic comments and general sucking of teeth, then obviously job will be finished in no time.

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okay okay look. I spoke on the phone to the chap who took 7-10 days on his 12m boat and he managed to keep me on the phone for two sodding hours! He's seventy summink as well. So, bound to be far far quickerer, i reckon.

I KNEW i shd have put this on PBO

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LOL

Ha, Even i didn't get this much stick over the Path!!!/forums/images/icons/laugh.gif/forums/images/icons/smile.gif/forums/images/icons/laugh.gif

ROFL.



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You lot obviously went to pretty shoddy schools. This is what we did in metalwork.....

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Anyway, back to anti-foul. Didn't they use tar in the old days? Perhaps you could do one side in your copper wallpaper and the other in tar?

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