Thank God

[simongoldthorpe]

Thank God we got the boat out of the water on Wednesday otherwise I think it would be in Biscay by now in this weather.

We got hauled out at Davis's Boatyard (next to Cobbs Quay) in Poole. Very nice chaps, very professional.

Now the question (yes I know it's probably been asked a thousand times before) but when she was lifted out it looked like the hanging gardens of Babylon underneath. At the start of this season she had 2 coats of quality antifoul and she was lifted and pressure washed in July.

Aha, say the nice chaps at Davis's, that's where you went wrong. See, the pressure wash takes off the antifoul, hence all the new horticulture on the bottom.

I don't get it. She was lifted and washed because she had slowed by about 8 knots which improved when she went back in. I admit that she then started to slow pretty quickly.

So.. what to do. The nice chaps had a debate and one was suggesting using an eroding antifoul cos it's on a swinging mooring and don't have a scrub midway through the season. Naa, says the other, do 2 coats of hard antifoul and get Dick the Diver at Swanage to give here a wipe with a J cloth when needed but don't lift her out and DO NOT use a pressure wash.

AAAAAGGHHHH I'm confused.

Please help as I fear I may lose all my friends because my boat doesn't go fast enough.

 

[BarryH]

The pressure washing wash's away the biocides in the antifoul. The type of antifoul depends on how much you use the thing. Use it a bit more and you find the hull stays cleaner. We used to have a mooring on the frome, it wasn't totally salty but more brakish. Never put antifoul on the boat, it got used every weekend from going in to coming out. Never got any growth to speak of.

 

[byron]

Once a month run your boat up to fresh water and stop for 12/24 hours. You can practically watch the growths dropping off dead.

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[joanne2]

Is it true therefore that taking a freshwater based boat out to sea once or twice a season will keep the dreaded green away ?

 

[ccscott49]

Yep, it kills it off dead!

 

[byron]

and vice versa, without a doubt. I only anti-foul every 3 years or so as I am always going from one to the other.

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[simongoldthorpe]

What a brilliant idea, however it is tricky to find fresh water anywhere near Poole.

 

[byron]

Simon, Simon, Simon, try up the top of the Hamble above Bursledon Bridge and and stay there through a low tide. I'm not sure of the Yar, never been up there. There must be other rivers you can go up. At low tide it will be fresh water, even if brackish it will still work.

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[BarryH]

Simon, you don't get out much do you/forums/images/icons/wink.gif The Frome runs into Poole harbour. You'll get fresh water even on a high water down to about Ridge Wharf. Run up on the high to Wareham and take the next high back down. The trip boats from poole get up there and quiet a few fin keel yachts. The fresh water is on yer doorstep, so to speak/forums/images/icons/smile.gif

 

[simongoldthorpe]

Thank you. I now feel suitably stupid. Wareham here I come.

 

[aztec]

you should have come up W*****m channel... we've got loads of fresh up here.. oh, and a good pub.

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