anti fouling

[ben mansfield]

Anyone board of having to scrub their boat annually, or maybe more frequently? a team from oxford university are trying to develop an in situe method, and need your help.

Follow this link
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=px19eXI0THUdTWiBePq5sw_3d_3d
to answer 10 questions on hull cleaning habits.

thanks, Ben

[hellosailor]

My opinion of Oxford has just plummeted.

Surely, this survey was created by their freshman Theater Club in preparation for a comic review?

[ben mansfield]

This is a very preliminary measure of intrest. Thank you if you have participated

[Weyalan]

I took the survey, FWIW. I was also relatively unimpressed with the questions, which were, in my opinion, rather vague and open to interpretation.

[Pblais]

Sorry Ben, the consensus of the group was the survey was weak if not pointless. It didn't really cover any of the issues well at all. Almost no one hauls every time they clean. I know one racer that does and he works at a boat yard so it's free for him and the boat isn't that big. Personally, I haul every other year to repaint and dive 8 times a year. The issue of bottom paint was missed totally in the survey. That means they didn't know anything about boats let alone salt water.

I'm more of the opinion the survey wasn't done by anyone from Oxford or even got drunk there.

[Ex-Calif]

It was a marketing study. They will dollarize the cost of current practices and see if their new-fangeld machine (yet to be invented probably) is worth investing in.

Really wasn't about boats.

[Unicorn Dreams]

Doesn't ask any intelligent questions about cleaning. Seemed a waste of time to just read it, much less answer the poll.