"Bruce In Bangkok" wrote in message
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A friend came up with a novel solution. He talked about wrapping
tarpaulins under the boat and hosing water between the tarps and the
hull to keep a layer of fresh water on the hull. He reckoned that
would keep the barnacles from growing. I don't know that he ever tried
it though.

Cheers,

Bruce
(bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)

I've seen that done in the Long Beach area (SoCal) with varying degrees of
success. Seems to work best on powerboats, since they don't have the keel
and everything associated with it -- including ****ing off marina owners for
the wasting of fresh water. Even there, though, pulling the boat up out of
the water makes a whole lot more sense.

"KLC Lewis" wrote in message
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"Bruce In Bangkok" wrote in message
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A friend came up with a novel solution. He talked about wrapping
tarpaulins under the boat and hosing water between the tarps and the
hull to keep a layer of fresh water on the hull. He reckoned that
would keep the barnacles from growing. I don't know that he ever tried
it though.

Cheers,

Bruce
(bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)

I've seen that done in the Long Beach area (SoCal) with varying degrees of
success. Seems to work best on powerboats, since they don't have the keel
and everything associated with it -- including ****ing off marina owners
for the wasting of fresh water. Even there, though, pulling the boat up
out of the water makes a whole lot more sense.



I believe there's a device that you can buy that traps sal****er in a
similar setup, and you add a small amount of bleach to do the same thing. I
recall it works with sailboats as well.

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"j" ganz @@
www.sailnow.com

On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:18:50 -0600, "KLC Lewis"
wrote:


"Bruce In Bangkok" wrote in message
.. .
A friend came up with a novel solution. He talked about wrapping
tarpaulins under the boat and hosing water between the tarps and the
hull to keep a layer of fresh water on the hull. He reckoned that
would keep the barnacles from growing. I don't know that he ever tried
it though.

Cheers,

Bruce
(bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)

I've seen that done in the Long Beach area (SoCal) with varying degrees of
success. Seems to work best on powerboats, since they don't have the keel
and everything associated with it -- including ****ing off marina owners for
the wasting of fresh water. Even there, though, pulling the boat up out of
the water makes a whole lot more sense.


Had lunch yesterday with an Aussie who had actually tried such a
scheme (in contrast to the friend who had only thought about it). the
Aussie said that it did keep the growth off the boat but had much
greater then normal buildup on the outside of the traps due to the
lack on anti-fouling on the tarps.

Said that it really, really, upset the Marina people when you dragged
that awful mess of dirty traps, slime, gunk and barnacles up on the
jetty :-)

Cheers,

Bruce
(bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)