On Fri, 9 Apr 2010 19:25:09 -0700 (PDT), Frogwatch
wrote:

On Apr 9, 8:08*am, Gogarty wrote:
We have found West Marine's El Cheapo ablative to be quite good for our
useage. Haul every two years and find no hard growth on the paint.

I have always used the hard epoxy type paint with the most copper
possible because I keep my boat in Florida in severe fouling
conditions. Normally, I go 3 years between haulouts but I scrub the
waterline a couple times a year. Haulouts are difficult around here
because facilities are very few in the Florida Big Bend and if you
figure they will charge you $1000 for hauling and painting, you might
as well use the best paint. I just had my boat done and I had to sail
200 miles to get it done so I had them use Trinidad at $280/gallon.
If I was able to do it myself every other year, I'd use the cheap West
MArine stuff.

Out of curiosity how big is your boat? I was in Perth, W.A. a while
back and several people had dollies to haul their boat with. These
were pretty substantial rigs. One guy hauled his 28 ft. steel hull
motor sailor out with one. The seemed to have long tongues and they
backed them in at low tide then floated the boat over them at high
water and hauled them out with a tractor. The beach was mainly hard
gravel from the look of it.

It might be possible to build a rig like that and ignore the yards for
ever more.

The Aussy that posts from W.A. must know about these as when I saw
them I was the only one surprised. I'll try to get the name of the
place where I saw them. Can't remember the place but the dollies were
called "Jinkers".


Cheers,

Bruce
(bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)