26,516 Reasons to USE your boat more!
- Thread starter Lazy Daze
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Espos4
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Are you working on that one Lazy Daze? Or is it just a picture you came across?
Uggh. Pulling my boat next month or so for bottom paint. Hoping for a better outcome.
SCORPIO
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I'm in Delaware and had a lot of 'soft' growth this season. When we hauled out last week, the bottom was covered in pink, grassy growth. I had scrubbed it Labor Day weekend so that was only a few months of growth. I had a few barnacles on my tabs. I think I'll try a different bottom paint next season.
At our shop, yes. Am I working on it? Heck no. What kind of person would I be if I didn't let the new guys learn how to do things?
joeyleggz
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- Jan 15, 2013
- 878
- Boat Info
- current boat: 1997 sea ray 330 express cruiser
- Engines
- twin 454's efi
I’ve seen boats that sat in my Marina all season long , heck my buddy left his boat in for two years straight And only left the dock twice None of them looked even remotely like that... must be the paint or lack of ...
No paint, at all. The boat has been in a hi-n-dry since day one... Until this year when it was getting too expensive to keep it there... so it was put in a slip to save some money...............
joeyleggz
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- Jan 15, 2013
- 878
- Boat Info
- current boat: 1997 sea ray 330 express cruiser
- Engines
- twin 454's efi
Wow that explains it ,lol, good luck with that
KevinC
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Captn TJ
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Sad
Handsome Transom
Active Member
- Jan 26, 2018
- 563
- Boat Info
- 1989 SeaRay Sundancer 268 454 Bravo
- Engines
- 454 Mercruiser bravo drive
Pulled my boat for winter and its clean as a whistle, I dont envy the salties and bottom growth
Espos4
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You don’t get growth like that with proper preparation.
Trilux 33 brushed on the outdrive and 6 months later I don’t have an ounce of anything growing on it.
Same for the bottom paint. A quick hit with the power washer and it’s clean.
Windjammer
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Just curious - How do you get all that stuff off? Any chemicals work or is it a pure "hand-job" with a plastic scraper?At our shop, yes. Am I working on it? Heck no. What kind of person would I be if I didn't let the new guys learn how to do things?
Groucho
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O U C H !! ;-)
Groucho
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I'm getting crazy....how long till Spring again??
Bridog
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Its sad seeing neglected boats like this.
There are chemicals, but it's faster to just scrape. Even if you used chemicals, you's still have to scrape the main parts of the barnacles off. It's the remaining parts that are a pain as they are partly "into" the gelcoat. This will end up being scrape, sand, barrier coat, bottom paint. To pay us to use chemicals on everything (and probably still won't get it back to pristine) would be crazy expensive at $95/hour. Right now, it's just here for a winterize... he's still deciding what to do on the rest.
Carpediem44DB
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- Aug 18, 2015
- 3,230
- Boat Info
- 2000 Carver 506
2006 44 DB Sedan Bridge
- Engines
- Volvo TAMD 74 P
I kept my Rinker 350 in brackish water in Suisun Slough after four years of being in a lake. I had just painted the bottom but since I had the composite Volvo drives with SS dual props I did not think I should paint my drives. It sat for just over two months due to some travel plans with out being used. When I finally got a chance to take her out, I couldn’t make 8 knots. The barnacle growth had completely transformed the props to barnacle clubs. Took a diver over an hour to clean them up enough to get the boat mobile enough to make the two hour run to the boat yard. I removed the drives cleaned and painted them and sold the boat. I’ll never have another IO that I have to leave I’m salty water.
Captn TJ
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Yeah - he "saved" a lot of money
susanandlance
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+1 on OD boats left in the water, fresh or salt, been there done that, NEVER again
