A new customer asked me to inspect the work her previous dive service had done a week earlier.
https://youtu.be/mSdRfASiDGc
https://youtu.be/mSdRfASiDGc
What alerted the customer to seek a "second opinion"?
We completely trust our bottom cleaner but we... always inspect it afterwards.
If he didn't trust his bottom cleaner, he wouldn't let the diver near his boat. I always check my bottom after the diver cleans it, why wouldn't you. There's almost nothing I don't check after I pay someone to work on it. In the immortal words of president Ronald Reagan, "Trust, but verified ".I'd say that indicates that you don't trust your bottom cleaner.
I'd say that indicates that you don't trust your bottom cleaner.
In the aviation business the phrase is......"Trust...but verify"!!!!!
Same attitude in the nuclear power world![emoji848]In the aviation business the phrase is......"Trust...but verify"!!!!!
My diver shoots about a half dozen before and after stills that he sends along with the email bill. Big help in determining anode replacement, paint's remaining life, and any other issue.Seems like a video overview could easily be delivered with each job. It only added two minutes. Verification accomplished.
I'd say that indicates that you don't trust your bottom cleaner.
If someone wouldn't mind to say; what is a typical charge for a diver to clean and inspect a bottom? How is the cleaning done, by using a power washer? Being from an inland waterway area I am not sure anyone offers this service in our area, even during the summer months. Just curious, Thanks
Reminds me of a guy wrapping dock pilings in our neighborhood. Charged 100 bucks or so per piling. But he only wrapped the top part. Not all the way to the sea floor. And you are supposed to pressure-wash a few inches below the sea floor. I have wrapped our pilings correctly, and when I heard he finished in 1 day I was skeptical. Dove a neighbor's dock and sure nuff, 2 - 3 feet of bare piling. Not very effective. And... his cell phone apparently doesn't work.
In SW Florida scrubbing the bottom, cleaning running gear, and checking anodes runs $2 a foot for my 45' boat with a monthly contract. Beyond a certain size, the rate either changes or they add in the beam as surface area of a boat bottom grows much faster than length. Some divers such as the one I use in Maryland, charge an hourly rate.
Ted
Ted,
Don't let your guys come up here a talk to my divers. I'm paying $50 for a 40ft boat and includes all of the above. I do it monthly this time of year and every two weeks in the summer. Florida is BRUTAL on bottoms.
A lot will be dependent on bottom paint, amount of use and speed you travel. In 2017 I did the Great Loop and was in freshwater from early May to beginning of October. Only cleaned the bottom once (light growth) but was moving at least every other day. Less use and tired bottom paint may require more frequency.If I understand O C Diver's post, the cleaner the water the longer period between cleanings. What frequency would be needed or recommended for the Cumberland River, in your opinion?
We started a Loop on May 8, 2018 from just south of Annapolis. The boat had bottom paint one month earlier. We just yesterday had the boat hauled for some work in Fort Myers Beach. The bottom was so clean that pressure washing was nowhere close to being necessary. There was not a simgle barnacle to be found. The shafts and props had been painted but it has worn away. Anodes being changed but they could have lasted till we return home in May. Fresh water helped along with movement but since we exited Mobile Bay into salt water our daily movements have not been as many as in earlier months.A lot will be dependent on bottom paint, amount of use and speed you travel. In 2017 I did the Great Loop and was in freshwater from early May to beginning of October. Only cleaned the bottom once (light growth) but was moving at least every other day. Less use and tired bottom paint may require more frequency.
Ted