Are you talking bottom cleaning in the yard?Is it common for marinas to forbid exterior boat work, including bottom cleaning? Thanks.
wf, In my experience, yes it is common here in the PNW.
My marina says I'm only supposed to redo/rework 25% of topside (cough cough, ahem). All sanding with vacuum-sucked tools. No power tools after 6 PM (should be on 2nd drink by then anyways!)
Hey, you're close, maybe we will cross paths before the weather changes this season (I'm in Columbia City, gone starting tomorrow for a while.)
I have not been to a marina which prevented me from sanding the bottom myself, or doing my own work, and if they did, I would not go there.
The environmental nazis hate your boat and you too for having one.
Many politicians of the left persuasion have embraced the GND, and that means a big X mark against your boat, you cant deny this, and if you dont recognize it, your inconsistent about the creeping tide going on now.
The OP is on the Columbia river in OR. He sits right across the river from WA state. Setting aside your political issues, your experience in VA doesn’t have a lot of relevance for the OPs situation.
I’m in WA, but I’m on Puget Sound so don’t know what the typical standards and practices are on the Columbia in OR. I’m also not sure if he was talking about working on the bottom while on the hard or in the water.
In-water cleaning as it is currently practiced typically involves scraping, brushing, or
blasting off fouling, releasing potentially viable organisms and/or their propagules, as well
as paint components into the water. Thus, while cleaning in-water between drydock
intervals is a major tool for the reduction of biofouling, which helps ships to meet clean hull
requirements, in-water cleaning is also increasingly becoming restricted or banned. In some
locations, such as the state of Washington and certain water bodies in California, concerns
about the release of toxic chemicals, such as copper, from antifouling paints, are the main
reason for bans on in-water cleaning (state regulations reviewed in McClay et al. 2015). In
New Zealand, new guidelines for in-water cleaning currently under review were created to
deal with both chemical contaminants and biosecurity, allowing cleaning only in
circumstances when both issues can be sufficiently addressed (Craft Risk Management
Standard 2014). In Hawaii, in-water cleaning is allowed as long as certain state and federal
discharge standards for water quality are met (Tanimoto, pers. comm 2015). No current
regulation for in-water cleaning addresses biosecurity. Thus, there is a risk that in-water
cleaning requests in Hawaii will increase in the near future because of biofouling and inwater cleaning policy developments elsewhere in the Pacific.
Its possible I could not own a boat over there, if they refuse to let me do anything.
I think they dont want people scraping off barnacles in the water at all on the west coast since some anti foul gets in the water. Now Washington state has outlawed copper paints. And you guys have stricter laws about these things than we do. And I am certain will get stricter than they are now.
If you anchored somewhere away from other boats and scraped off barnacles in the water, would a fellow boater report you as in violation of some pollution laws? I dont know, but I can easily imagine it.
Yes, I though as much, its illegal over there out west to scrape them off in the water...
So what is the penalty if charged with this crime?
In-water hull cleaning is not a crime of any kind anywhere in the United States. There are a few local and state restrictions about what kind of paint can be cleaned, but for the most part, nothing more. You posted a link to a study done a few years ago in Hawaii. A study is not legislation. It is not a law. What makes you think otherwise?
That was the point I made about copper paint, even your saying in some places you cant clean it off in the water.
Is it common for marinas to forbid exterior boat work, including bottom cleaning? Thanks.
Is it common for marinas to forbid exterior boat work, including bottom cleaning? Thanks.
There is no state in the U.S. that bans the cleaning of copper-based anti fouling paints. There are some restrictions about the cleaning of ablative paints, but that's it.
My marina in Vancouver, BC, does not allow bottom cleaning in the water.