Juton Seaqueen @ 13 months

[ChattingLil]

We have got into the habit of coming out of the water for 2 or 3 days in the summer.... I take a couple of days off mid week, so we don't even miss a weekend's sailing (sailing.... ah that's a pleasant memory!).... much easier on the constitution, and a LOT cheaper!

me too. Much more reliable for getting the jobs done. As as Lazy Kipper says, some of the winter sailing can be magical.

fwiw - I've only ever used Jotun - it was recommended by the bosun at MYC and it does indeed last 2/3 season when on a pontoon/marina. It was not so robust when I spent a summer on the river at Brandhole and then Burnham. It was disgusting with deadmen's fingers hanging off. <shudder> but actually there were no barnacles. It was just stuff growing of the sticky mud that that adhered itself to the hull. Mate spent a hour in the wetsuit giving it a scrub and all was fine.

 

[WF36]

Fox`s do a special summer rate for berth holders all year round.

Think I will come out for a "Fox's summer special", as not been properly out of water for 15 months, only scrubbed last June.

 

[npf1]

As Sailorman says works over here on the East Coast. But how much did your Micron cost? Seaqueen I find is at least half the price of comparable antifoul

Thankfully (or was it luckily), I managed to get the Micron the last two times at much less than SeaQueen by using stuff that was past date. Whether or not that will be possible this time, only time will tell.

 

[Otter]

We have got into the habit of coming out of the water for 2 or 3 days in the summer.... I take a couple of days off mid week, so we don't even miss a weekend's sailing (sailing.... ah that's a pleasant memory!).... much easier on the constitution, and a LOT cheaper!

I wonder what the hull "drying" time in summer is versus winter? I know there's a lot is speculation about whether gelcoat does actually dry or if it's just the surface. Is two weeks in summer equal to two months in winter?

 

[Koeketiene]

I wonder what the hull "drying" time in summer is versus winter? I know there's a lot is speculation about whether gelcoat does actually dry or if it's just the surface. Is two weeks in summer equal to two months in winter?

IMO this 'drying out' is a bit of a myth.

Guapa spent the winter 2008/2009 ashore - indoors in a hangar (whilst we were having the deck done).
Moisture readings were taken of the hull in October when we hauled out and again when we launched at the end of May: the readings were virtually identical.

 

[sailorman]

I wonder what the hull "drying" time in summer is versus winter? I know there's a lot is speculation about whether gelcoat does actually dry or if it's just the surface. Is two weeks in summer equal to two months in winter?

newly felled "green" timber takes 12 >18 months to get down to around 12% moisture content, once sawn & sticked to season

 

[xyachtdave]

IMO this 'drying out' is a bit of a myth.

Guapa spent the winter 2008/2009 ashore - indoors in a hangar (whilst we were having the deck done).
Moisture readings were taken of the hull in October when we hauled out and again when we launched at the end of May: the readings were virtually identical.

Yep - leaving a boat sitting around for the last 6 months in your yacht club's car park to 'dry it out' and stop it getting osmosis.....I don't think so!

 

[Suttle]

Winter in a boatyard may not prevent osmosis, but will dry out a wooden boat. When I was younger and more stupid than I am now (possibly), I managed to "dry out" a Stella over one winter in a boat yard, even had a fan convector heater going in the cabin! When it came to launching in the spring it leaked, oh how it leaked. I had to lay it alongside the scrubbing jetty for two days until it took up enough to get it the mooring. Always kept it wet inside after that experience when ashore.

 

[chinita]

i had scrubbed the forrard bit prior to haul-out

only 2 small barnies on the shaft

I am greatly relieved.

When I opened this I was expecting to see a photograph of a Danish grandchild.

 

[tugger]

IMO this 'drying out' is a bit of a myth.

^ This exactly. It won't dry out effectively unless you've removed the layer designed to keep the water out, namely the gelcoat then it'll all need to be flushed/washed down/steam cleaned with fresh water to remove as much of the salt as poss. to enable the drying process.

What you are doing by lifting out is reducing the wetted time, reducing the time within which osmosis may occur, but you'll never reverse what's taken place.