It shouldn't happen to a boat

[kghowe]

It shouldn\'t happen to a boat

A cautionary tale this one. A friend of mine over at Eastbourne drove into the marina yesterday to oversee relaunch after 6 months of extensive refitting. The Marina manager called him on the mobile as he went through the barrier. He advised him that his boat had just fallen over on the hardstanding. The screw type stand had gone through his hull, below the waterline.Ouch!

They had made an observation that the newly applied antifoul was all over the hull, including where the prop pads had been. Conclusion: the owner had wound them down to antifoul underneath. Outcome: big time problems with his insurance company. Solution: read the hard standing small print and see who is responsible for damage caused by 'fiddling with the stands'. I bet you find its not the Marina, and your insurance company won't like it too much either. Best to leave them alone I do fink and get the marina to slap some A/F on during craning back into the water!

 

[hlb]

Re: It shouldn\'t happen to a boat

Well why should anyone else pay. Daft bugger should have left SWMBO proping it up till the paint dried!

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[stamfordian]

Re: It shouldn\'t happen to a boat

Sounds at bit dodgy to me...... boat ok for six months crainage day comes bang the stands through the hull....mmm call it my suspecting mind sounds more like a strop slipped or somthing!!!

 

[numenius]

Re: It shouldn\'t happen to a boat

I agree with Stamfordian. In my experience, "coincidence", whatever the subject, never is.

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[oldgit]

Re: It shouldn\'t happen to a boat

Always when lifting boat into water in the past I have been asked by yard operator if I want to slap bit of antifoul on any bits missed when being lifted in.They will always give you 10 mins to do this..Keep leftover bit of paint and old roller handy for this particular task and then bin when finished.Have put back boat without doing this once or twice when in hurry but so what,its under the water.

 

[matt_lake]

Re: It shouldn\'t happen to a boat

Dodgy it may be but the yard have a "get out of jail free" card because the owner adjusted the stand. You're probably right when you suggest it was dropped.

 

[Scubadoo]

Re: It shouldn\'t happen to a boat

What paint do you use, I use International Paints anti-foul and the label says leave to dry before immersion ie 24hours, otherwise you end up with a horrible rim of paint round the hull.

RM.

 

[hlb]

Re: It shouldn\'t happen to a boat

Coliholics suggestion of just pouring the paint in the water and driving through it a few times, seems to have its benifits.

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[coliholic]

Re: It shouldn\'t happen to a boat

Ooh you can't say that H. When I posted that idea first time it got kimmerised pretty quickly, so obviously it's a damn good idea that Kim is planning to market himself. Or maybe PBO are gonna do a story on it.

 

[hlb]

Re: It shouldn\'t happen to a boat

I was already planning where was the best place to chuck it in. Decided that it would be best in a rough sea, so the boat would jump up and down a bit on it and get in all the fiddley bits. Wondered why it got Kimerised but was afraid to ask. Think he was just having a bad day. And a bit miffed cos he had not thought of it.

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[coliholic]

Re: It shouldn\'t happen to a boat

Think you must be right about Kim having a bad day. Funny though, we can almost tell from when he gets really active with his delete button, when his wife's going through "that time of the month". So we all suffer from Mrs Kim's PMT too.

Oh and let us know when you're going to try the "coliholic patented a\f application method". And best to do it when there's lots of raggies about, then you can spray it around a bit with the wash and they can get their boats done too for free. A good way to make friends with 'em, though can't think why you'd want to.

 

[hlb]

Re: It shouldn\'t happen to a boat

I'm to tight for that Colin. Rather hoped you'd convince some of the raggies to use this method. Then I can just zoom up and nick there antifouling.

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