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Bottom Paint Half Price (Serious Question) RESULTS
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) |
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