Soon to be in your hull diver's hands (unless I'm your hull diver, in which case it already is!)
https://youtu.be/9hAortJEG_w
https://youtu.be/9hAortJEG_w
Looks like a great investment for a diver.
It looks great for getting off soft bottom growth, but how about barnacles. Where we lived in NC, I had a diver do the bottom every other month. In the spring, he would have to scrape to get the barnacles off that grew very fast once the water temp got warm enough.
I have done it myself and a wide, dry wall compound knife or better a windshield ice scraper, can cover a wide swath with each stroke and get the barnacles off. Will this machine do that?
Really?
So that blue hazy stuff in the water around the tool where it's going over already cleaned areas is not bottom paint?
No. The paint is Pettit Trinidad which is a hard paint. It does not plume off the hull like an ablative. What you are seeing is the slime being ejected from the brush.
With modern ablative coatings simply moving the boat often enough does just fine.
Looks nice....would love one with about a 3 foot diameter....
Getting lazy in my old age...
Might require another weight belt though with that much surface contact!
True, but mass is the secret to making the tool spin instead of you....Less weight more bouyancy is the key to hugging the bottom of a boat.
True, but mass is the secret to making the tool spin instead of you....
As a former helo pilot, I get real scared of spinning out of control....