Lobstah
Senior Member
- Joined
- Jul 10, 2011
- Messages
- 242
- Location
- USA
- Vessel Name
- T/T Whistful
- Vessel Make
- Boat US 12' Inflatable
I have a question regarding hull maintenance, specifically in areas of Florida, where we currently reside.
Friends of ours have the bottom of their 24' Rossborough cleaned every month. I asked him about bottom paint, and he said it was too much of a pain...not sure what that meant. There are hundreds of "bottom cleaning" services here that do in-water hull cleaning.
In the 10yrs we had Whistful (34' MT up in Maine) we did a "quick haul" every spring, and would tend to hull maintenance during that window, but we never had our hull cleaned during the rest of the year. There was the local club member who was a diver, and every month or so he'd check zincs while he was down, but that was about it.
I understand Southern waters are much warmer (why we're here!). We've noticed many other regional differences between living in New England and Florida (try and buy Light Cream in the grocery store down here), but I doubt that hull maintenance is just a matter of preference.
So for you fellow Southernites, what do you do for hull maintenance?
Friends of ours have the bottom of their 24' Rossborough cleaned every month. I asked him about bottom paint, and he said it was too much of a pain...not sure what that meant. There are hundreds of "bottom cleaning" services here that do in-water hull cleaning.
In the 10yrs we had Whistful (34' MT up in Maine) we did a "quick haul" every spring, and would tend to hull maintenance during that window, but we never had our hull cleaned during the rest of the year. There was the local club member who was a diver, and every month or so he'd check zincs while he was down, but that was about it.
I understand Southern waters are much warmer (why we're here!). We've noticed many other regional differences between living in New England and Florida (try and buy Light Cream in the grocery store down here), but I doubt that hull maintenance is just a matter of preference.
So for you fellow Southernites, what do you do for hull maintenance?