Sodablasting hull...
 

I had an aluminum boat treated like this years ago, and it blew the epoxy
right out of the seams (which we hadn't know was there - recognized and
re-epoxied, no big deal...). FWIW.

I'm not sure if it was the same process, however. It was called "wet
sandblasting", done by a pressure-cleaning company. That might just be sand,
but with water(?).

A nearby boater flouted our local boat club rules and soda-blasted his own
(steel) boat some years ago, and I was rinsing black grit off my boat (from
wind drift) all season... it eventually all did come out, largely from rain
action, I think.

(www.ctlow.ca/StellaB/StellaB.html)

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Charles T. Low
www.boatdocking.com

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"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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Anybody here ever have their hulls soda blasted?

I want to remove the bottom paint on my Ranger and it seems chemical
stripping is going to be really expensive - like $3,000...

According to somebody I just talked to, I can have the Ranger done for
less than a 1/4 of that price if it's soda blasted and you don't have
to worry about the gel coat getting screwed up.

Any thoughts?

Sodablasting hull...
 

"Gene Kearns" wrote in message

You do make a great point, though.... blasting with whatever media is
a pretty nasty job and you really *do* need to be considerate of
others. Outdoors, the wind will carry dust *way* farther than you
think....

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Grady-White Gulfstream, out of Oak Island, NC.

you got that right.... i read a report a couple of weeks ago about the smog
from our local mine stack (north australia) ending up in indonesia most of
the time.....

Shaun