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Old 05-12-2016, 05:47 AM   #21
Gordon J
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City: Italy
Vessel Name: Didi Mau
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Two years a lot

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Originally Posted by sdowney717 View Post
I try and go as long as I can, longest has been 4 years.
With the bottom paint being weakened by government fiat, how long before you get big barnacles on the hull?
I am at the 2 year mark, and got plenty.
With ye old good TBT paint, at the 4 year mark I was very clean.
We are near LAFB in Hampton Back River, so the lower Chesapeake Bay.

Went fishing last weekend, and had zero bites, and neither did any other boats did we see pulling in any fish.
Last few years have been poor, is the Bay dead or is it fished out by too many fishers?

I have learned that after two years divers often end up scraping the hull as they clean. I went three years once and found that divers had taken paint down to barrier coat and beyond in a couple of places. I keep my boat at Southall Landing behind the house and haul my boat at Dandy Haven, where she is today.

I brought this boat, new to me, from Florida two weeks ago and hauled her the next day. Het bottom paint was going on 4 years old. I found an oyster big enough to eat between the keel and the speed transducer.

I have decided to haul this boat every year, and put on one coat of bottom paint.

Gordon
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