On 9/28/2016 10:00 PM, Jim Ellsworth wrote: Hi Gail, In this discussion I didn't see if you were going to keep the boat in salt water for a longer period of time - say, all summer; or if you were trailer sailing and going into salt water for just a weekend or a few more days. For long term salt water immersion you need protection against barnacles. If you are only going to be in salt water for a few days at a time, then I'd forget about bottom paint and just wash off the hull thoroughly when it is hauled out again. Sailing for a few day in salt water doesn't give barnacles much of a chance to get established; the boat is moving; and overnight stops arent time enough for them to find you and decide they would like your hull as a new home. But, ... if your boat doesn't have antifouling paint on the bottom, and you leave it at a marina for days or weeks, barnacles will signal to one another, here is a great new home for us, .... settle in and multiply; then you will have a real job getting them off the hull. Barnacles have the best adhesive known to man, and getting them off again will involve a sharp instrument and square inch by square inch of tedious removal. Learned that the hard way when we left our Dyer dinghy in the water one year - no antifouling paint - and were away for three weeks. When we got back, I had the most amazing barnacle growth on the dinghy. The big ones were about 1/2 inch in diameter, with hundreds of offspring looking for their own space .... Connie
Holly Cow,
The mast does not need any coating! If you are going to keep the boat in salt water for any length of time you need to have a barrier coat painted on the bottom then bottom paint on top of that. There are different bottom paints for boats kept in the water full time and trailer boats where the active chemicals are still effective with the boat out of the water for a period of time. I would love to have my M-17 in the water but if you have a boat that has never had bottom paint, I would think long and hard before going down that road.
Jim E M-17 #603 Grace
On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 7:17 PM, Gail Russell <gail@zeliga.com> wrote:
On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 7:06 PM, Steve Trapp <stevetrapp@q.com> wrote:
Yes, yes, yes. Your M-17 needs protection from saltwater! Best option is to get your hull painted with the spendy paint that is needed to protest your hull and galvanize the aluminum.
Is that paint allowed in California?
It is much less expensive to pressure wash thoroughly, your trailer too, and grease the trailer wheel bearings every time you outhaul, if you plan to leave you M-17 in saltwater, outhaul it and wash it at least every month. I gather you see pressure washing as a decent alternative to the hull painting.
Note taken about the trailer and wheel bearings.
By, "galvanize the aluminum," do you mean I should have the mast painted with some kind of galvanizing paint?
Should I have the trailer painted?
Gail
Steve M-15 # 335 South Puget Sound
-----Original Message----- From: Gail Russell Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2016 6:40 PM To: For and about Montgomery Sailboats Subject: M_Boats: What to do if you want to put an M-boat in Salt water fora time..
We have thought about putting our M-17 2005 into Salt Water at Bodega Bay. What do we need to do to protect it from Salt Water. Take it out, how often (?) to pressure wash the bottom.
What about the mast. It is unpainted aluminum? Do we need to get it painted?
What else?
Gail Russell Hydeaway1 M-17