help keeping logs clean to keep performance

[mikeherb]

Thanks Ed.

[bug73]

I have a girl that comes in and takes care of the inside of my log, she uses a suction device and does a great job.

OMG!!!

[tooning around]

So how do you keep this from building up in the strake?

[HandymanHerb]

That bottom paint BMR was saying he used would work great and be the cheaper solution

[badmoonrising]

That photo looks familiar, I've seen it posted at PDB.

[badmoonrising]

That bottom paint BMR was saying he used would work great and be the cheaper solution

Yep. Cheaper than any other gimmick product that doesn't work.

[tooning around]

So how long have you had that bottem paint on? how offen do you repaint your logs?and how would you apply it in the strake?

[HandymanHerb]

I don't think that many people have strakes, OK lets take a vote how many have strakes


Herb- NO

[tooning around]

well what about groth on just the toon? no strake

[tooning around]

Sorry about that photo above do you have this stuff growing around your toons?

[badmoonrising]

Yep, bottom paint protects them from all that growth. My toon doesn't have hollow strakes, Malcom. Not needed.

Besides, inside the strake is too dark to allow much marine growth. Plants like sunlight, therefore it's not much of an issue. My 1968 Starcraft has 6 hollow strakes, it's 41 years old this year and spent it's entire life in saltwater.

No growth inside the strakes at all. I know this because I stipped teh boat down to it's bare hull and replace a half dozen bad rivets.


With bottom paint, you wipe of the very little growth that occurs and touch it up every season. Repaint every 5 years. Guaranteed protection.

My boat at the beginning of season 3:


It'll probably still look that good in 41 years.

[cwag911]

Tooning around, where do you keep the toon slipped? I noticed a North Carolina tag on the trailer.

[tooning around]

The north end of Lake Norman
Mr Badmoon, you never said how much you spent on doing your toon with that paintnor to up keep it.Thanks for your time.

[tooning around]

Some how I see this stuff growing in dark spots , what do you see?

[tooning around]

Clean toons run cleaner in the water, less gas so Y do some MFGs cape the ends of there strake? I just ask so I can retain performance that I paid for.