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| 118.1 | Swim | AD::GIBSON | Lobst'a Ayah | Tue Aug 16 1988 15:49 | 17 |
| Wow all that in three weeks? Where is you boat??
My solution-- Get on a mask and snorkle and a sharp scraper and
have fun. It should'nt take more than a couple of hours.
Here's somthing I've been wanting to try. Maybe it will work for
you.
Tie off four tire tubes or a rubber raft under the stern. Inflate
them so that the outdrive rises completly out of the water.
Then do your work and deflate when finished.
If this works I may amke an inflatable dry dock??
Walt
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| 118.2 | Good idea! | SCOMAN::BOURGAULT | I have a story to tell..... | Wed Aug 17 1988 03:46 | 36 |
| The dry dock idea soungs pretty good! I can even venture an
educated guess that it would work.
I once had occasion to lift a good-sized wooden dock (metal
legs, 2x10 beams, 2x4 and 2x6 planks... HEAVY construction!)
out of the mud and shift it back onto the concrete "pads"
under water in a similar fashion. Using aluminum canoes
upside down (with planks to protect the canoes) for the
"air chambers", we filled them with air (see below) and
lifted the whole mess as easily as you could ask for.
Once we got everything positioned, canoes were "deflated"
by somebody standing on one end... the other end broke the
surface and the air escaped.
We used old freon tanks for the compressed air... one of
us had made several, so they were handiest. (Freon comes
in a metal "tank" similar to a propane gas tank... about
a foot across, and a little taller. Once emptied, it can
be - but isn't strictly spozed to be - adapted for holding
compressed air. The adapter kit is available in the auto
section of lots of KMart type department stores...) It
took one tank per canoe, and then off to the compressor...
I could make your "dry dock" out of a couple of planks and
a two or more plastic drums... like building maintenance
types get their soaps products in (25 gallon size?).
They usually come with a big opening on one side of the
top, and a vent hole on the other. With the vent hole
capped and the big hole underwater, just stick the hose
into the drum and inflate. Comes time to lower the boat,
just unscrew the vent cap... hisss!
Hmmmm.... want to go into business together?
Inflatable Dry Docks, Inc. has a nice sound to it!
- Ed -
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| 118.3 | Don't know if this would work but.... | VICKI::DODIER | | Wed Aug 17 1988 11:10 | 7 |
| I don't know much about barnicles but couldn't you make some
type of outdrive booty ??? You could probably take a long handled
fishing net and replace the net with a draw string type bag of some
kind to make the whole operation a little simpler. It sounds much
easier then scraping.
RAYJ
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| 118.4 | Hey Buddy, Got a lift? | AD::GIBSON | Lobst'a Ayah | Wed Aug 17 1988 11:50 | 16 |
| Ed.
I like the 55 gal poly drum idea. I know for a fact that that the
bouyancy would be more than enough. I've made lift bag's out of
grain sacks and plastic bags in the past. They work.
A harness would be the tricky thing to make. It would have to hold
absuloutly.
Infalatable Dry Dock's Inc.
Sounds Good!
Walt
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| 118.5 | Creativity breeds solutions | BMT::SAPIENZA | Knowledge applied is wisdom gained. | Wed Aug 17 1988 22:38 | 29 |
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Re .*
Hmmm... The lift/float idea is interesting (if only because of
the ingenuity of it all). However, I can see a problem or two.
First, I should have mentioned that the boat is a 25' cabin cruiser,
so the weight is probably higher that the wooden dock discussed
previously. (Although, since only the stern would be lifted, this
would reduce the portion of the boat being lifted.)
Second, given the underwater contour of the boat, the lift-cradle
be be more complex than just a few 2x6s. The cradle would have to
provide adequate support for the hull, without causing any undue
stress that might damage it. Actually, lifting only the stern might
be out of the question since it could crete a torque effect on the
midship and forward sections of the hull.
And, as for the business aspects -- sorry guys, it's already
been done. There are a number of commercial pneumatic lifts available
which will lift a boat out of the water. I've typically seen these
used by speed-boat owners who don't want to paint the bottom of
their boat -- or have barnacles cling to the drives!
But, keeps those cards and letters coming....
Frank_who_still_hasn't_cleaned_his_outdrive
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| 118.6 | | BMT::SAPIENZA | Knowledge applied is wisdom gained. | Wed Aug 17 1988 22:40 | 7 |
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Oops, forget to answer .1's question. The boat is in Northport
Harbor (which is on the north shore of Long Island).
Frank
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| 118.7 | It worked once | CASV02::GUNNERSON | JLG | Thu Aug 18 1988 13:28 | 9 |
| Well a simple solution, if a time consuming one, will work if you don't
want to use your boat for a while. Take it out of the water. The
little white critters will die and the drying effect the air loosens
things up a bit. I was looking a used boat that was sitting out
of the water on dealer's lot a while ago, it had one a Volvo I/O.
The I/O (painted factory white) was covered with barnacles. I was
able to pick and scrape them off with my fingers.
john
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| 118.8 | y | AD::GIBSON | Lobst'a Ayah | Thu Aug 18 1988 17:42 | 2 |
| Yea. Step on my creativity ****
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| 118.9 | | CURIE::THACKERAY | Ray Thackeray MR03 DTN 297-5622 | Fri Aug 19 1988 17:43 | 11 |
| Exactly the same thing happened to me (in the water in Warren, RI)
but I got barnacles all over the bottom of the boat. An easy job
to haul, scrape and paint again, but a nuisance.
This was after 3-4 weeks. Apparently, with this hot weather, the
barnacle/grundge/slime situation is much worse than for a long time
and the key is to make sure that the anti-fouling paint is fresh.
Tally-ho,
Ray.
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| 118.10 | And I want a bigger boat?! | IND::SAPIENZA | Knowledge applied is wisdom gained. | Mon Aug 22 1988 20:56 | 15 |
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Well, I took the boat around to the marina on Sunday morning
and today (Monday) they hauled it out then scraped, cleaned and
painted the outdrive. So much for that problem.
Now, I have to go down there again tomorrow morning to argue
with the service manager about the S**T job they did. Would you
believe that they PAINTED THE ZINCS!! (Not to mention putting a
coat of outdrive-paint on part of the transom.)
Such fun...
Frank
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| 118.11 | barnacles and beards... | MRMFG1::J_BORZUMATO | | Tue Aug 23 1988 16:12 | 24 |
| frank, your probably the lucky one, we are having problems like
this on the south shore. the guy across from me at the marina is
running a 32 hatteras, twin diesels, he went off to montauk a couple
of weekends ago, and about a mile from the marina, ran out of fuel.
excess growth on the bottom, including props and outdrives is
raising all kinds of hell. my boat was growing a beard, not a mustache,
i'm talking about that green grass crud, but this year it was 3-4"
inches long. and yes i do run the boat. can't seem to stop the
crap this year. a friend of mine went under his boat for a look
see, and he went under mine as well, nothing to talk about,
but other folks are having all kinds of growht problems.
jim.
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| 118.12 | LOVE THAT DIRTY WATER | CSLALL::MFLAHERTY | | Tue Aug 20 1991 22:59 | 7 |
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Is it true that if you venture into the Charles river for a day that
the fresh(?) water and/or polution will kill the algae on the botton of
a hull. I went there on the 4th of July and a couple of days later I
noticed that the green slime on the sides of the boat had turned brown
and later vanished, but re-appeared shortly after (about a week). I
don't know what the bottom looked like.
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| 118.13 | <Brushless Washing For Your Hull Below WL> | PIPE::HOWELL | | Wed Aug 21 1991 18:28 | 8 |
| re .12
Venturing in to the Charles would probably kill anything living on the
hull of a boat, and may affect any living organisms in the boat also.
Especially after a heavy rain.
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| 118.14 | and the Aquarium folks can't grow some algea | ULTRA::BURGESS | Mad Man across the water | Fri Aug 23 1991 11:52 | 19 |
| re <<< Note 118.12 by CSLALL::MFLAHERTY >>>
> -< LOVE THAT DIRTY WATER >-
> Is it true that if you venture into the Charles river for a day that
> the fresh(?) water and/or polution will kill the algae on the botton of
It seems to be generally true that most marine organisms will
die fairly quickly if their environment is changed rapidly.
> a hull. I went there on the 4th of July and a couple of days later I
> noticed that the green slime on the sides of the boat had turned brown
> and later vanished, but re-appeared shortly after (about a week). I
> don't know what the bottom looked like.
Probably replaced with a different strain
R
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