On lifting out.

[Sandy]

I was lifted out on the morning tide of 17/11/2023. It has got colder in the last few days and I need to put some gloves in my sailing bag.

As this was the first year I've been on the Tamar and having heard lots of horror stories about the amount of marine vegetation that was to be expected, due to agricultural run off, I watched with interest as the boat was lifted out of the water. To my surprise and delight just a thin layer of slime, a few barnacles and some sea grass round the prop shaft. As no sea horses were spotted we jet washed that all off.

The prop shaft anode had eroded round the bolts and was hanging on for dear life. Note to self: paint the bolts when I put the new anode on.

Looks like my four year old Coppercoat is still working.

 

[ash2020]

Sadly, I wasn't present when mine was lifted out a couple of weeks ago. It's the first season for me in Poole harbour after several years in Scotland, where I had very little fouling. I had to swim under with a bread knife the day we took her round for lift out. The prop was just a large ball of weed and barnacles. The engine would only rev to half speed.
Good luck with the over-winter.

 

[garymalmgren]

RE; Looks like my four year old Coppercoat is still working.

Was that the first haul out in four years or was she hauled and scrubbed annually?

gary

 

[Sandy]

RE; Looks like my four year old Coppercoat is still working.

Was that the first haul out in four years or was she hauled and scrubbed annually?

gary

Since being Coppercoated she has had one lift and jet wash and that was post COVID when she was in the water and hardly moved, again just a coating of slime. When she last came out I hosed her down and wiped off the slime.

As I had moved her to the Tamar and had heard terrifying stories of boats with entire ecosystems of rain forest proportions and watching several boats come ashore know the stories are true.

Since getting Coppercoated my average cruising speed has increased by a knot.