Fouled Bottom

[Sandero]

I am curious about how other sailors in the NE area do with their bottom paint.

I use an ablative paint and sail almost every weekend (rarely during the week) from June through the end of October. My experience is that with this type of use the bottom goes foul by mid to late summer and by Fall I have lost at least a knot of speed due to a fouled bottom. I don't dive to do any intermittant scrubbing of the bottom.

Is my experience typical? What are others doing? Scrubbing regularly? Different type of bottom paint? If you hire a diver... what do you pay for this?

Jef
sv Shiva
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