Thinking ahead, what antifoul?

[guyd]

Having read with interest the pbo article on the main page of the massive anti foul test, none of the locations were quite so muddy as our brizzzol channel.

So what do you use? Comments?

 

[bitbaltic]

Put the boat in a freshwater, locked marina (e.g. Anything in Cardiff Bay) and the low salinity means hardly any fouling. As far as mud goes, I don't suppose it has as great an effect as salinity dies in fouling (and maybe sinking into mud twice a day even scrapes off any growth?).

I am sure our fouling will increase now we have moved from a freshwater berth in Penarth (despite the muddy waters of the sailing grounds) to Milford with its clear blue seas!

Cheers

 

[Snoopy463]

Spending half its life sitting in mud, most of the rest in fairly brackish waters with the occasional stay in a nominally freshwater pond (Cardiff Bay), the hull remains remarkably free of weed - only a few barnacles. Previously the boat was in Milford Haven and there was a fair bit of weed at the end of a season. Antifoul used, one coat of Tiger per year.

 

[Rum_Pirate]

I use

and works well.

Not sure if legal in UK.

 

[Allan]

A friend of mine who normally keeps his boat in Cardiff bay, took it to Dale for a summer. On the way back in no wind it was so slow he dried out in Tenby as he thought there was a plastic bag or something on the prop. It turned out to be hull fouling.
The point is that there's no typical fouling, it's completely different from one place to another. When I had my boat in Cardiff bay I used to take it out every two years and give it one coat of the cheapest antifoul I could buy. That would just need a jetwash two years later. I normally did a couple of thousand miles away from Cardiff between lifts.
Allan