Tag: Antifouling
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Like New! (But heavier…)
So after a few days of really nice weather the paint job is now ready. I use about 5 hours to do one coat of paint. Makes you feel quite whacked after working with your arms above your head for 5 hours. I’m a bit surprised by the change in looks caused by the 15…
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Oysters, anyone?
Found these guys hanging out in my water anti-airbubbles tank. They’re about 50-70 mm i diameter, looking very oyster like. But somehow I didn’t feel hungry…
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Cleaning cleaning…
I am going to raise the waterline 150mm, so the hull needs to be clean for the new paint. The previous waterline was about 15mm too low, I guess it was calculated for an empty boat… But the boat is far from empty nowadays!! But as you can see there is dirt and algae growth…
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Good timing.
This morning my fridge stopped working. The cooling water that cools the compressor couldn’t circulate anymore. I think this is caused by the large amount of mussels and seaweed that’s growing in the outlet :-) ! I wasn’t to worried about this, however. Because tomorrow morning I am finally, after 3 months on the waiting…
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Disgusting seafood.
The Journeyman has been in the water almost two years now, and the antifouling paint is dying. I dived for a few hours to clean the hull, but I was forced to end early by an invasion of microscopic shrimp. I guess their way of protesting me destroying their habitat was to crawl all over…
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Almost like a normal spring launch: Antifouling
Standard thing to do before launch: Painting anti-fouling. Well.. actually not for me, since my last small boat had so many layers of paint on the bottom when I bought it that I just grinded some old off each spring, instead of putting new on. And the large yacht I had before that was repainted…