Bruce In Bangkok wrote in
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Nope, you are wrong.

Read the directions and you'll see that nearly all post TBT paints are
"self-cleaning" or some similar description. If you don't sail about a
bit you will get growth. Thus, if your yellow banana boat is tied to
a stump and never moves you WILL need to scrape and paint every year.
Move once in a while and you get three years, or more.



You guys all lack "The David", our amazingly physically fit, Adonis
looking to attract the most beautiful free women, POLICE DIVER, who
lives on the docks in his restored antique sloop....

Every month, David, for a VERY reasonable "donation" to support his boat
habit on cop's pay, dives every boat in the dock and simply wipes that
bottom so clean you cannot believe it hasn't been in the yard in 2
years. He inspects and changes zincs, cleans out cutlass bearings like
new, polishes the crap off the shafts and wheels, makes sure everyone's
air conditioner seawater inlet is free and clear along with all the
underwater electronic sensors and inspects the whole hull for anything
that looks bad.....at his convenience on his schedule. Generous
"Donations" are put in paper bags in the cockpits to keep David
interested in your boat's health. Boat money couldn't be better spent.

You guys need to breed yourselves one of these wonderful boys to take
the drudgery out of hull cleaning. Noone ever "scrapes" a hull with
David around. When he dives your boat, he takes a stiff nylon brush and
his cleanout tools for the holes and crannies. There are no barnacles
that need scraping......How awful....

Once you get a David, don't forget to invite him AND HIS HAREM to
whatever dock parties the wife doesn't want to attend. I didn't even
know Charleston had that many beautiful, unmarried, "seat covers" to
drape over the cushions....simply amazing.

It's 10PM in Charleston and STILL 62F down here on the rivah. God I
love global warming! Motorcycled around in 79F on the bank clock all
day.