Things growing on my bottom!

[davidphillips]

I've just got my boat out of the water (berthed at Southampton) to find up to 1 1/2 inches thickness of calciferous tube worms growing on my hull even though it was antifouled in June. Anyone else seen these?

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[Robin]

So which antifoul will NOT be used next year?

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[alec]

Blame Water Ballast on Ships

There is increasing pressure on the shipping industry to deploy proper filtering systems on ship's water ballast .

Unfiltered water and weaker antifoul makeup means that the future will only get worse.

Lets hope that sense prevails and responsible ports ban ships that don't comply.

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[tcm]

Yup. It seems dependent upon which marina you are in, and even which part of a marina. We can breed a light covering of them in under a month in southern france,

The one thing these critters don't like is copper. So antifoul with high copper content will be better. I am planning to try a stick-on copper foil antifoul for next year perhaps.



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