Which antifoul?

willpatten

willpatten

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We launched our boat 4 weeks ago, having anti fouled it with £250quids worth of Interspeed Ultra.

She sits on a swinging mooring on the river orwell and we have sailed her regularly since she has been in.

She is now covered with slime and grass.

In preperation for next season, can someone please tell me what anti fouling works??
 
willpatten said:
We launched our boat 4 weeks ago, having anti fouled it with £250quids worth of Interspeed Ultra.

She sits on a swinging mooring on the river orwell and we have sailed her regularly since she has been in.

She is now covered with slime and grass.

In preperation for next season, can someone please tell me what anti fouling works??
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When you find out pls PM me:confused:

blakes tiger extra doesnt work on the Orwell
Uno seems ok

Palladin looked good last w/e, we wernt close enough to get a photo
 
Don't go the PM route, Sixpence has a beard like a billy goat so I'm going to try the chili powder method, hope it stops those darned barny culls too
 
Slime Etc..

Hi

We are just round the corner on the Deben .. Sea Mist II was antifouled from new with CopperCoat .. We still get the slime and the odd barnical but its just one of those things .. We are lucky having a lift keel we can dry out and blast it off with a pressure washer .. Mind you the barnicals on the prop were stuck on well which explained why we were not going very well ..

We rafted up with someone last week who's father was a chemist .. He used to mix arsnick in with the antifoul .. :eek:

Happy cleaning ..
 
i cant make my mind up over antifoul,i usually dry my hull out on the sand if i see a hint of growth,the sand usually kills it.

If spending 250 on antifoul still leaves you with a dirty hull then ill stick with drying out
 
bastonjock said:
Maybe I just need to run aground more often :D

Must admit I was hoping to put her up on Roger Sand and give her a scrape next weekend, but the weather isn't looking too clever at the moment. Then I got the reminder of a 'family' thing too :confused:
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sailorman said:
Wot a/f then Jim:rolleyes:
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.....the stuff I got dead cheap after Xmas from Marinestore. £36/2.5L

I had my usual doubts but I have to say it has worked. We have a slight amount of growth which quickly falls over in a bit of rough water.

Then again, I am out of the flow of the main Crouch this year, in Bridgemarsh, but my A/F does seem to be holding up very well against other boats in my vicinity.


http://www.flagfinishes.co.uk/pdfs/FLAG Performance Extra Antifouling.pdf


Fortunately, I bought 4 tins, so I have enough to do this year too.
 
This year for the first time I used the very cheapo Flag (when the price was wrong on their website - £32 for 5 litres delivered:)) and I got a long beard and thought the whole thing had been a disaster. I had a summer scrub cos I had to come out anyway. It was just a beard round the top and only the usual slime elsewhere. A few more barnacles than usual on the prop and shaft. After a pressure wash it had all gone - including the remains of the AF so I am down to the remains of last year's Tiger Extra (different colour). Think I'll go back to Tiger next year.
 
MoodySabre said:
This year for the first time I used the very cheapo Flag (when the price was wrong on their website - £32 for 5 litres delivered:)) and I got a long beard and thought the whole thing had been a disaster. I had a summer scrub cos I had to come out anyway. It was just a beard round the top and only the usual slime elsewhere. A few more barnacles than usual on the prop and shaft. After a pressure wash it had all gone - including the remains of the AF so I am down to the remains of last year's Tiger Extra (different colour). Think I'll go back to Tiger next year.
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Sir had the option of purchasing the performance a/f, but chose Cheapo Flag Saga. It also seems one didn't apply quite enough since it is showing last years too.....:p
 
What is the considered opinion of the panel - in a marina do you end up mooring in a shared 'antifouling solution' from all the boats leaching chemicals into the relatively still but presumably warmer water that is lost when mooring in a river and does the build up of chemicals have a beneficial affect that exceeds the sharing of other things added to the marina which may encourage the growth of fouling?

The wife of a couple I know fell into Shotley Marina some years ago. Their dog, seeing her in the water, thought it was time for a swim and jumped in too. She was in hospital for 2 weeks, the labrador was fine. Think they do change the water a bit more now.
 
Karouise said:
The wife of a couple I know fell into Shotley Marina some years ago. Their dog, seeing her in the water, thought it was time for a swim and jumped in too. She was in hospital for 2 weeks, the labrador was fine. Think they do change the water a bit more now.
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That must be Rod's wife - he was telling me she had heavy metal poisoning. The Lab passed away very recently. His boat is opposite mine in Bradwell.
 
Just goes to show a lot depends on where you moor. I like Karoiuse used the cheapo flag and had the worst growth that Priors had ever seen in a mid season scrub in August. Maybe the Roach bugs are tougher.
 
From talking to other sailing folk, IMHO the antifoul soup of a marina appears to keep boats' botties cleaner than if they were moored in the running water of a river.

In SYH I have used Blakes ordinaire every year. Stayed in the water for two years once, just about made it through the year, but by about September of the second year she had a bit of a carpet. All came off when pressure washed though.

I don't use a\f on the prop. Just shine it up so I can see my face in it, then apply waterproof grease.

Having fallen in the marina on a dark November night last year I wouldn't recommend it. But I didn't end up in hospital.

Roger - a dog with his own boat is a bit flash isn't it?
 
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