Boat yard blues

[rsmith]

Just to offer another possibility, the pic of the barnacle encrusted hull also shows barnacle encrusted props and shafts, which also have been painted. I have never had paint stay on my props or shafts because I run my boat often. I also don't get nearly as many barnacles on my boat as the folks nearby me on my dock who don't run their boats often.

Don't get me wrong, it may very well be the paint, but I'm betting that if you took the old girl out for a good cruise once a week, you'd have less of a problem.

I blast the gear and use 3 coats of inter protect 2000 plus 3 coats of paint. even with weekly use and 25 back to back trips in the Bahamas the paint will last over a year on the props and shafts. What I've found eats tha paint off the metal parts is when the zinks are eaten up and the metal under the paint starts to eat away.
There were no barnacles on the wheels and shafts because we scraped them to use the boat I left the bottom alone at the paint co request untill I had the time to haul. Typically a boat that dosent get used down here has a layer of grass and slime not hard shells in 3 months

 

[34Hatt]

I found the pettit Barnacle buster to work very well and holds up well 1-2 coats will last for 1000 nm miles so if you do more do more coats!

As for use I always said just use it and no fouling well this year even the dock queens bottom were clean We had above average water temps it warm up very fast this spring even after a bad winter and yet all the boats came out clean so that blows two theories
My theory this season IMHO is we had a dry season up against our norm so nitrogen levels from run off were much lower this year so food for thought

 

[GCSI]

R Smith: Have you ever tried Prop Speed? Got 2 yrs on original PS application, with majority coming of during a winter stay at SeaSpray (slip was silted in, very tight in and out at low tide). Last time around went with paint and majority blew off after 3 trips. I know the paint failure was a function of application, VERY frustrating. As a function of this, I've been bagging my running gear between uses and that's been 100% effective. However, now that water will be cooling down I'll be more reluctant to get wet...
All that being said, plan on coming out next month for a prop tune and possibly a coat of paint at waterline. This time around, plan on direct supervision of work or doing it myself (have access to competent workforce if needed). To Prop Speed or not to Prop Speed; that is the question.

 

[rsmith]

I have the prop speed sitting on the shelf in my garage. I've been going to put it on my spare wheels but haven't had the time. Seems like somewhere along the way someone sped up time and I can't get to all the things I used to knock out in no time

 

[BOATER BOB]

GCSI PS is silcon based after applying to props trying to paint is a long shot as nothing sticks to silicon
Bob

 

[Avenger]

Seems like somewhere along the way someone sped up time and I can't get to all the things I used to knock out in no time

I have long held the theory that time is accelerating. I look at things like how long I waited for Christmas when I was a kid vs. now, feeling like I've been run over by the holiday. Sadly, I can't prove my theory, because the clocks all run faster too.

 

[GCSI]

GCSI PS is silcon based after applying to props trying to paint is a long shot as nothing sticks to silicon
Bob

Bob: Runnin gear was sand blasted to prep for paint application. Do you think that the blasting may not have remover all the PS? Brett

 

[capttonyf]

I have long held the theory that time is accelerating. I look at things like how long I waited for Christmas when I was a kid vs. now, feeling like I've been run over by the holiday. Sadly, I can't prove my theory, because the clocks all run faster too.

Time definitely feels like it speeds up. you pay your bills and then it feels like they're due again. I think it's just a relative thing. When your 5 years old waiting for Christams it seems like forever because a year is a 1/5th of your life. If your 50 years old it's 1/50th of your life so it feels so much faster. I feel I'm still relatively young at 41 years old and time flies, I couldn't imagine what it will feel like at 70+ years old. It'll be Christmas, and I think it'll feel like if I go use the bathroom, blink, sneeze, and walk back to the living room and it'll be next Christmas all over again.

Tony

 

[Fanfare]

Actually, over 70, it's time to go to the bathroom again.

 

[Boatsb]

Actually, over 70, it's time to go to the bathroom again.

I though at 70+ it was still not again.

 

[bobk]

80 next fall and hope to be still kicking and cruising. You youngsters complain too much. Am I the oldest here? I know Walt is close, but he can't get that badge yet.

Scott, two beers and one NA since noon, and no trips to the head.

Bobk

 

[Boatsb]

I can drink water, lemonade or iced tea all day without downloading. After a beer or two (usually a craft beer like a mellow ipa) it's every 12 ounces or so to return it to the water table. And I'm alot younger than you Bob. I hope I can get as much boat time as you when I get older.

 

[Avenger]

A 70 year old, an 80 year old and a 90 year old are talking and the 70 Y.O. complains that what stinks about being 70 is that you get up needing to pee and you can't. You just strain and strain and nothing comes out.

"That's nothing." says the 80 Y.O. "I get up in the morning feeling like I need to cr@p and I can't. I grunt and strain and nothing happens."

"You guys have no idea." says the 90 Y.O.

"Why," says the 70 Y.O. "can't you pee in the morning?" "Oh, I can pee" says the 90 Y.O. "Every morning at 7:00 I pee like a racehorse on a flat rock."

"So, can't you cr@p?" says the 80 Y.O. "Oh, that's not a problem." says the 90 Y.O. "every morning at 8:00 a.m I take a dump that would make a rhino blush."

"So what's the problem?" the younger two ask.

The 90 Y.O. answers: "I don't wake up until 9:00"