Frank

Yep, saw that, it stinks frankly

Normally I wouldnt use an Epoxy paint that has direct exposure to UV but this Durapox looks to be different, its some sort of Urethane/epoxy hybrid, I havent heard of it before, might try it sometime.

Did you contact the Altex Rep via the Patiki rd Avondale site ?

This comment caught my eye because the performance of Altex No 5 this year has been terrible, so bad I am currently out for a mid season reapplication. I antifouled in mid Oct and after 3+ months there are barnacles galore including a few Goose barnacles whats odd is that there is none of the usual slime. I hope this is a one off, I'm moored at Shelly park BTW.

Everything seemed to go to pieces when Andy Maloney left

In the previous round ETNZ were embarrasingly sluggish in the pre start but had good speed during the race and recovered well only just missing out on the final Yesterday I watched the first two starts closely, they were much better positioned in the initial charge for the line (an improvement) yet the boat still looks sluggish in that final acceleration when they are all jammed together, so still an inability to "Pull The Trigger"as the commentator says. Unfortunately they were not able to climb the placings in the race as per Rnd 2. Slingsby seems to have another gear in the sa

Yes goes on a bit but then so did the absolutely bizzare incident at Oneroa where the skipper of a fairly large yacht was deliberately ramming boats and demanding their phones, you can see the boat in question at 1:38, it was out of Westhaven. It took forever for the police to come by which time this visitor to our shores and her son were throughly traumatised. The son did eventually hand over his phone to try and placate the whackjob and it was retrieved later by the police at westhaven (they followed the boat back). Apparently the owner thought the world was going to end.

There is some weird S*^t going on out there !

This Interview is excellent IMO, puts it all in perspective.

Pull the other one

Thanks, I think use of the oxygen bleach will probably be a preventative strategy, perhaps more potent than vinegar. In regard to accretion It seems that the uric acid alters the PH which somehow encourages the minerals/salts to crystalize from the stagnant sea water, perhaps this is why a fresh water purge at the end of the voyage helps.

Fabulous work, too Nice to put in the water.

Thanks for all the feedback, the system is back together now and in future I intend to schedule a yearly clean with Citric or Phosphoric Acid. Also thinking of flushing some dilute solution through at the end of each trip (5KG bag of Acid Powder is $40 on trade me, should last a while)

We recently went through a somewhat disgusting de-blocking of the Head discharge plumbing with the usual accretion of "salts" being the culprit. So we are Keen to prevent or slow the buildup as we dont want to do it again ever ! (Ok that might be a slightly unrealistic) There is an interesting article in the link below that cast doubt on the use of vinegar as a solution but suggests the use of a product called Sew Clean which is made by the same company that markets Barnacle Buster. So two questions 1. Whats the feedback on using vinegar as a preventative to slow or stop the bu

"I have found hard bouyancy jackets too bulky and so don't wear them when I should." I think that is perhaps the real issue.