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01-03-2015, 12:59
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Caribbean live aboard
Boat: Camper & Nicholson58 Ketch - ROXY Traverse City, Michigan No.668283
Posts: 6,353
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Worst Boat Bottom - Pics
I was looking for something & ran into this photo. We all rant on about the best/worst bottom paint but its high time for the worst results. Show us your worst.
Just imagine how great the fishing would be under this floating salad. He would have a bit of trouble checking in to the Galapagos.
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01-03-2015, 13:22
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2006
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Re: Worst Boat Bottom - Pics
I don't think he'd have any trouble checking in to the Galapagos. Getting there would be the problem.
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01-03-2015, 13:48
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Trunk (boot) of my car
Boat: Tinker Traveller...a dozen feet of bluewater awesomeness!
Posts: 1,230
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Re: Worst Boat Bottom - Pics
Does that affect the boat speed any?
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01-03-2015, 14:38
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Ohio
Boat: Now boatless :-(
Posts: 11,580
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Re: Worst Boat Bottom - Pics
What anti-foul did he use - it's obviously crap.
Here's the worst mine ever got.
Plus a gratuitous shot of our sailing club to make me feel better
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01-03-2015, 14:54
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Moderator
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: aboard, cruising in Australia
Boat: Sayer 46' Solent rig sloop
Posts: 28,400
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Re: Worst Boat Bottom - Pics
No problem at all, he's already chipping away at it.
But, it's the worst i've ever seen!
Ann
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01-03-2015, 14:57
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Marine Service Provider
Join Date: Jul 2014
Posts: 6,103
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Re: Worst Boat Bottom - Pics
WOW…that first photo looks like a boat with a kelp forest growing below it. Amazing!
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02-03-2015, 07:49
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: Illinois
Boat: O'Day 22
Posts: 21
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Re: Worst Boat Bottom - Pics
Was he moored near the MiracleGro plant???
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02-03-2015, 08:25
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Southern California
Posts: 588
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Re: Worst Boat Bottom - Pics
Just a quick little story: I was in a nice marina one night recently where a sparkling new mega-yacht was docked. It was shiny all over, and even had lights underwater to show it off in a beautiful blue glow. But as I walked past, I noticed that its bottom looked almost like our number-one photo.
It took two or three disbelieving glances to realize that the boat's bottom was so shiny, it was reflecting the under-dock growth like a mirror!
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02-03-2015, 08:42
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Tromsø, Norway
Boat: Meta Arctic Voyager 47
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Re: Worst Boat Bottom - Pics
Ah! that photo makes me feel better already.
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02-03-2015, 09:36
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Philippines in the winters
Boat: It’s in French Polynesia now
Posts: 11,368
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Re: Worst Boat Bottom - Pics
You know the saying; "Moss won't grow on a rolling stone". That goes for boats too (almost).
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02-03-2015, 14:47
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Senior Cruiser
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Enkhuizen, NL
Boat: Pearson 36-1
Posts: 755
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Re: Worst Boat Bottom - Pics
Skylark is berthed in the IJsselmeer in The Netherlands. Fresh water. Every summer she spend six weeks out of the IJsselmeer cruising northern Europe.
Going from salt to fresh water and back, seems to kill all growth. Barnacles don't like fresh water and the algae doesn't like salt water.
I use Micron every 2-3 years and am happy I never see any goose barnacles.
Where were those barnacle farms moored anyway?
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02-03-2015, 14:59
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Hull Diver
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Under a boat, in a marina, in the San Francisco Bay
Posts: 5,427
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Re: Worst Boat Bottom - Pics
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02-03-2015, 15:04
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Ohio
Boat: Now boatless :-(
Posts: 11,580
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Re: Worst Boat Bottom - Pics
Quote:
Originally Posted by fstbttms
To name but a few...
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I can see why you'd quote bottom cleaning by the hour... or at least by the growth/inch - LOL...
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02-03-2015, 15:28
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 724
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Re: Worst Boat Bottom - Pics
That 1st pic is of a boat hauled at Kittery Point Maine. It hadn't been hauled in 3 yrs. I think my son said.
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02-03-2015, 16:32
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Saskatoon, Canada & Eastern Caribbean
Boat: Lagoon 420
Posts: 437
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Re: Worst Boat Bottom - Pics
GAWD!! That boat bottom in the pic by the OP was.....well, I'm not sure how to describe it.
Gold Medal for sure, I can't imagine another winner!
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