On Thu, 03 Jun 2004 11:38:02 -0400, DSK wrote:

(SAIL LOCO) said:
The day I can't park at a marina that allows me to work on my own boat is the
day I sell the boat.


Dave wrote:
Not sure I'd go that far, but the issue does create an interesting alignment
of interests between the enviro nuts and marina owners.

Oh yeah, wanting to be careful with hazardous chemicals, especially ones
that are deliberately formulated to kill marine life, is *definitely*
environ-nut-ism.

I'll cut them some slack on the environmental issues, because I tend
to worry about the environment myself. Then again, I see these same
guys spraying Imron outside without so much as a mask on and I have to
wonder just how careful they are being. I will say that old Jose, who
paints bottoms day in and day out seems to be well covered up and
protected and I don't envy him that job. I am fairly certain that
their motivation is strictly "captive market/bottom line" oriented.

Frankly, in fresh water, I wonder just how much enviro-nastiness we
really need as all we are really protecting against is slime, and even
the CSC on the bottom of my boat isn't really all that effective
against that.


The sooner we go ahead and destroy the environment, the sooner we we can
quite wasting time & money trying to preserve it... the official
Bush-Cheney policy, right?

DSK

They are not anti-environment. They just don't let it stand in the
way of making a buck.