How often do you haul out / antifoul?

How often do you apply Antifouling

  • Every 12 months religiously

    Votes: 51 52.6%

  • 13-18 months

    Votes: 16 16.5%

  • 19-24 months

    Votes: 24 24.7%

  • 25 months +

    Votes: 6 6.2%
  • Total voters
    97
Cactus Sailing

Cactus Sailing

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just interested out of curiosity the general consensus on how often folk re-antifoul their boats, particularly interested in the south coast of the UK

poll for ease of use ;) TIA
 
Can't see any poll options! (can now). We generally go more or less annually - less for the anti-fouling and more to inspect and replace anodes, sea-cocks etc. We used to do it ourselves, but we are getting a bit old and grey for that now and generally let the boatyard do it. This is in the Solent area.
 
Every winter, with a 7 month sailing season. I'd always used International antifoul, either Micron or Cruiser / whatever they call it now, but after disastrous results in 2015 switched to Seajet ( no relation ) which while by no means perfect does seem better for my half tide mooring in Chichester Harbour.
 
maby said:
Can't see any poll options! (can now). We generally go more or less annually - less for the anti-fouling and more to inspect and replace anodes, sea-cocks etc. We used to do it ourselves, but we are getting a bit old and grey for that now and generally let the boatyard do it. This is in the Solent area.
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Yeah you have to post the thread before you can type the poll options ;)
 
Dunno why people do it in the winter. b****y freezing in the winter. I lean the old girl against scrubbing piles in the summer (beginning or end) and do the job myself these days. Took me two tides to do it all, in July before a long cruise.

Oh yes I do know: they want to dry their hulls out. OK, that's for another thread...
 
BelleSerene said:
Dunno why people do it in the winter. b****y freezing in the winter. .....
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I guess that they do it in the winter because they want to be sailing in the summer. We tend to let the boatyard do it in the late autumn - mid October, give or take - the weather is still good enough that they can do it quite quickly and they can fix any other issues that have arisen during the summer season, then get it back in the water for the winter season.
 
We move marinas every other year and find that the the growth seems worse the second year in the same place. We will have it scrubbed in the water at the beginning and half way through the Summer if the service is cheaply available - some places are £850 plus to haul out and put back in again plus scrubbing so a diver for £150 Euros is great value.

Tend to antifoul every 2 to 3 years depending on the growth. The best place we stayed in for delaying growth was Sani in Greece. Not just a fantastic place to be at each time we went out but it's a small artificial marina that also happens to be the drain area for a resort of a couple of square miles.

So every time it rains for more than a couple of hours (fairly common near Thessaloniki even in the summer - no less than once a month, often more), then the whole marina turns fresh and hundreds of fish float up to the surface. They are scooped out quickly by staff and thrown away but the growth on the boat turns to slime then starts to build up a little fresh water weed before it goes salty again within a week. So for 2 years we did nothing at all, not even an underwater scrub.
 
Lift once at the end of season and blast off slime from Coppercoat - 5 seasons so far without antifouling and still looks very good!
 
thinwater said:
I'd far rather work fast in the summer than suffer in the winter.
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2 coats of micron extra (/2) plus another round the waterline and leading edges will easily last 2 years with a couple of lift and powerwashes to remove slime and check/change anodes in between (uk south coast). +1 for summer haul-outs, although I suspect that having spent most of this summer ashore may have been a mistake. Currently on micron 350 so we'll see how that does...
 
Not down south but up here I had my last boat lifted out every 18 months. With the current, new boat that regime would have meant a lift out in autumn. Anchoring off a sandy beach I swam under the boat to check the anodes on the sail-drive, etc and scrub the AF. All was OK so I plan to get a lift-out in spring when the forecast is for dry weather warm enough for the AF to dry.
 
Every couple of years in Torbay. I use International micron and it lasts ok. Have to wait and see what the new formula is like though. We normaly lift out in the spring when it's a bit warmer and easier to work.
 
Thus far about biennially; last time she was out with the crane was winter 2016/7. Coppercoat on most of the boat, but need to renew the traditional A/F on the bottom of the keels at the end of next season (or maybe in the coming summer/spring). We tend to dry out on the scrubbing grid and scrub the slime off about 2x a season—would probably benefit from a third, as I'm in quite a high fouling area. Fortunately, it only seems to gather slime—with traditional antifouling, as the boat was delivered, crustacean type fouling (worms of some sort? Can't remember the name at the moment...white worm like material that sticks impressively well) and limpets seemed to flock to it.
 
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Although currently boatless because I'm working in Saudi, my last 3 boats were kept at the Fareham end of the top of Portsmouth harbour.

Out for the winter every year and launched late March, using 2 coats of International Micron whatever antifouling, I still needed to scrub twice in the year and there was still a bit of a beard when hauled out in November. Definately more growth on the sunny side of the boat too.

Coppercoat? A dead loss in Portsmouth. :(
 
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