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Please help me thru this brilliant (?) thought.
I slip in a very scummy creek, and my waterline gets considerable buildup of calcium, scum, and green growth. Several inches below the waterline, I only get browning with very little buildup.
My thought: Paint anti-fouling approx 2" above waterling to approx 5" below waterline. Likely ablative so whatever buildup occurs will wash off. I've used several clear coatings in the past, and they just, flat out, don't work!
It would handle 90% of my growth, be quite cheaper, far easier to apply and re-coat.
I've never used bottom paint before for 2 reasons: 1) no way to apply it while sitting on my trailer, and 2) very real potential for rubbing it off as I load/unload boat from carpeted bunk trailer; however, I only launch in spring, and load in the fall.
Pro or con? What would this look like? Am I crazy, or on to something?
I slip in a very scummy creek, and my waterline gets considerable buildup of calcium, scum, and green growth. Several inches below the waterline, I only get browning with very little buildup.
My thought: Paint anti-fouling approx 2" above waterling to approx 5" below waterline. Likely ablative so whatever buildup occurs will wash off. I've used several clear coatings in the past, and they just, flat out, don't work!
It would handle 90% of my growth, be quite cheaper, far easier to apply and re-coat.
I've never used bottom paint before for 2 reasons: 1) no way to apply it while sitting on my trailer, and 2) very real potential for rubbing it off as I load/unload boat from carpeted bunk trailer; however, I only launch in spring, and load in the fall.
Pro or con? What would this look like? Am I crazy, or on to something?