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Waterline Antifouling
Okay... so the boat is pulled and on the cradle. I'm looking at waterline
fouling which seems to happen with greater frequency and mulitude in salt water. It's not the beards of weeds that Cappy is used to towing on his floating garden of a Coronado... but much more than I'm willing to settle for. I tried 8 coats of hand rubbed wax from the antifouling line up this year with 4 layers of triple X antifoul along the first 6 inches down. I'm thinking of a copper strip just below the bootstipe about 6 inches wide. They have some very thin ribbons available with adhesive backing. I'm thinking of giving this a try as a way to stop growth and protect the waterline from damage. Any ideas? CM |
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Waterline Antifouling
Buy a better antifoul and take it over the waterline. I've just had
International hard copper on for 12 months and apart from slime no other mess. She's not even been water blasted this year! I'm really impressed! remeber putting any wax on top the the antifoul will stop it working! Cheers MC Capt. Mooron wrote: Okay... so the boat is pulled and on the cradle. I'm looking at waterline fouling which seems to happen with greater frequency and mulitude in salt water. It's not the beards of weeds that Cappy is used to towing on his floating garden of a Coronado... but much more than I'm willing to settle for. I tried 8 coats of hand rubbed wax from the antifouling line up this year with 4 layers of triple X antifoul along the first 6 inches down. I'm thinking of a copper strip just below the bootstipe about 6 inches wide. They have some very thin ribbons available with adhesive backing. I'm thinking of giving this a try as a way to stop growth and protect the waterline from damage. Any ideas? CM |
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Waterline Antifouling
Yeah okay... I've got a boot stripe in blue and about 3/4" stripe of white
below that to the waterline. Now this works okay at the start of the season.... with the waterline right at the antifoul.... but after about a month of equipment, tools and clothes being brought aboard it settles to a full loaded cruising weight you would find on a passage maker. Then It sinks to just about the boot stripe and the slime starts in on the whitestripe. this is what I want to address. CM "The_navigator©" wrote in message ... | Buy a better antifoul and take it over the waterline. I've just had | International hard copper on for 12 months and apart from slime no other | mess. She's not even been water blasted this year! I'm really impressed! | remeber putting any wax on top the the antifoul will stop it working! | | Cheers MC | | Capt. Mooron wrote: | | Okay... so the boat is pulled and on the cradle. I'm looking at waterline | fouling which seems to happen with greater frequency and mulitude in salt | water. It's not the beards of weeds that Cappy is used to towing on his | floating garden of a Coronado... but much more than I'm willing to settle | for. I tried 8 coats of hand rubbed wax from the antifouling line up this | year with 4 layers of triple X antifoul along the first 6 inches down. | | I'm thinking of a copper strip just below the bootstipe about 6 inches wide. | They have some very thin ribbons available with adhesive backing. I'm | thinking of giving this a try as a way to stop growth and protect the | waterline from damage. | | Any ideas? | | CM | | | | |
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Waterline Antifouling
paint it out or use white antifoul.
Cheers MC Capt. Mooron wrote: Yeah okay... I've got a boot stripe in blue and about 3/4" stripe of white below that to the waterline. Now this works okay at the start of the season.... with the waterline right at the antifoul.... but after about a month of equipment, tools and clothes being brought aboard it settles to a full loaded cruising weight you would find on a passage maker. Then It sinks to just about the boot stripe and the slime starts in on the whitestripe. this is what I want to address. CM "The_navigator©" wrote in message ... | Buy a better antifoul and take it over the waterline. I've just had | International hard copper on for 12 months and apart from slime no other | mess. She's not even been water blasted this year! I'm really impressed! | remeber putting any wax on top the the antifoul will stop it working! | | Cheers MC | | Capt. Mooron wrote: | | Okay... so the boat is pulled and on the cradle. I'm looking at waterline | fouling which seems to happen with greater frequency and mulitude in salt | water. It's not the beards of weeds that Cappy is used to towing on his | floating garden of a Coronado... but much more than I'm willing to settle | for. I tried 8 coats of hand rubbed wax from the antifouling line up this | year with 4 layers of triple X antifoul along the first 6 inches down. | | I'm thinking of a copper strip just below the bootstipe about 6 inches wide. | They have some very thin ribbons available with adhesive backing. I'm | thinking of giving this a try as a way to stop growth and protect the | waterline from damage. | | Any ideas? | | CM | | | | |
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Waterline Antifouling
Capt. Mooron wrote: and about 3/4" stripe of WHITE below that to the waterline. Now this works okay at the start of the season and then it gets all dirty..... Duh,,,,,,,,sheesh. Where's the real Mooron???? Seahag |
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