... Might have good anti-foul properties too.


Joe wrote:
Might, not sure..I've seen some pretty encrusted gold coins that were
recovered.


Of course, but how long had they been there?




Wonder what it would cost to build a plating tank to plate steel
bottoms?
Bet it's been done.


I bet so too. You could make a plating tank out of a couple
layers of fiberglass over the hull, use it for a mold. Then
drop it a couple of inches... that way it would not take a
huge amount of electrolyte, either.

DSK