lashed the helm to leeward. In seconds simpler with Fred steering an accurate motionless, as it came to inspect this
the jumping and crashing turned to compass course and not chasing wind visitor to its lonely world. Squalls
gentle rocking and pitching. I had held shifts back and forth, but I plotted my formed and dissipated around me,
on sailing until 2230 hours when the positions from the GPS as well and the and sometimes brought a little rain,
wind slacked a bit and I had seen no morning’s fix showed that we had lost but only for a few minutes and I didn’t
ships
marine
for hours,
creatur
although
es attach
I
themselves
could see
to
8 miles overnight while hove-to.
your boat’s bottom Ablative Anti-fouling
mind
Paint:
as they
Ablative
brought
paint
a
is
little
a soft
bit
bottom
more
the
while
glare
it’s
from
sitting
far
in
-of
its
f fishing
slip or at
boats,
its mooring. Barnacles
Then I noticed
repro-
the
paint
miracle:
that is
I
designed
felt wind with them to help me along.
to wear away as your boat is used. As
probably
duce rapidly
content
and
to stay
deposit
put
millions
and fish,
of eggs,
good
which
and
cover
even
the
rested.
the
“Hallelujah,”
water moving over
My
the
heart
boat’s
rejoiced
surface
with
wears
the
away
richness
the
I hoped. boat’s I bottom called Tquickly ofino Trafonce fic they Services get started. I grinned and shouted paint, to my fresh private layers of biocide the constantly are continuously changing exposed, scenery, all so
on VHF
Plants:
channel
Weeds
74
and
to
water
tell them
plants
wher
can
e
also
world.
attach
How
themselves
quickly things
that the
can
anti-fouling
change put
characteristic
into an enhanced
is constantly
three
refr
dimension
eshed as
I was
to the
so they
boat,
could
most often
alert
near
the
the
ships
waterline
from heaven
where ther
to hell,
e’s
and
long
back
as
again.
some
It
of
by
the
the
paint
ever
r
-pr
emains
esent
on
Pacific
the
swell,
boat’s
which
hull.
that
plenty
they husband
of sunlight.
up and down the was like waking up fr
Ablative
om a very
anti-fouling
bad would
paints
raise
can be
me
applied
up high
over
on
other
a watery
anti-
Vancouver
Algae Slime
Island
: Algae
coast,
can
of my
form
presence
a gloppy,
dr
gooey
eam
mess
and
on
realizing
your
you’r
fouling
e not
paints,
there
so that
mountain
you don’t
then
need
drop
to r
me
emove
down
the
into
previ-
boat’s bottom, blooming rapidly and creating an environ- ous paint before applying a fresh coat. It can be useful to
a
in the
ment
area.
that
They
attracts
had to
other
ask
or
me
ganisms.
twice
This
after
cr
all.
eates
So,
a
maybe
nasty,
I’m
apply
not
two
really
or
so
three
moving
coats when
valley
applying
. The swell
an ablative
defines
anti-
time
how
har
big
d-to-clean
my “ship”
bottom
was
situation,
and the speed
and slows
dumb to be out her
your boat tremen-
e again!
fouling paint. Ablative
at sea.
paints
Clocks
work
mean
well in
nothing
marine envir
but
on-
an
I was dously making: when 1.5 it’s knots, moving mainly through from the water. The wind stayed light ments that with whole high levels arbitrary of marine means growth.of keeping a position.
the set of the southeast current. I tried second day which was a blessing
The drawback
as it Each
to ablative
swell defines
paints is
a
that,
unit
because
of real sea-
it’s
to sleep
Using
but
quality
my nausea,
anti-fouling
the excitement
bottom paint
let
on
me
your
fit
boat’s
back into
hull
my long
such
lost
a soft
sealegs.
paint, you
time
will
and
remove
I remember
some of
ed
the
the
paint
magic
when-
of
of a
can
new
help
journey
prevent
, the
bottom
clink-clink-clunk
fouling from
Under
forming
the
in
genoa
the first
again
ever
Sha
you
riyat
scr
and
ub down
I it fr
the
om
hull.
my
Make
earlier
sur
days.
e your
I sat
diver
watching
knows
of things
place,
shifting
protecting
about
the hull
in lockers
and saving
and
you
played
a messy
the
clean-up
wind shifts,
that
tacked
your
on
boat
the
has
the
ablative
sea and
paint.
found
I’ve
my
seen
br
new
eath
paint
matching
jobs
job. Anti-fouling paint uses chemicals called biocides that ruined by a diver who was too aggressive with the scratch
the
ar
anxiety
e released
from
gradually
thinking
during
of possible
the boating
headers
season
and
to r
despite
educe
the
pad
gentle
when
breezes
cleaning
its
the
rhythm.
bottom.
All
A
thought
lso, ablative
seemed
paints
to drift
will
oncoming
or eliminate
ships
marine
made
gr
it
owth
difficult.
on your
The
boat’s
still
underwater
managed to
sur
average
- wear
4 to
away
5 knots
faster fr
away
om trailer
as the
rollers
swell
and
began
bunks
to
and
enter
in high-
my
wind faces. gods Most were anti-fouling good to me bottom though paints as while use cuprworking ous oxide,our way friction out to 50 areas miles such as very the soul rudderand . then it happened like
they
and
continued
generally
to
, the
blow
mor
,
e
albeit
cuprous
softly
oxide
,
in
offshor
the paint,
e. The
the
sun
bet-
came out from time I had so joyfully remembered. Like
and
ter
the
it will
backed
protect
sails
your
stayed
boat’s bottom.
filled to time, playing hide and
Hard-Finish
seek with the
Anti-fou
rejoining
ling Paint:
a lost lover
These
from
paints
a time
are
back
not
enough to make a comfortable night. low clouds bunched her
designed
e and ther
to
e.
wear
It
of
befor
f the
e
way
memory
ablative
, I made
paints
the
do. If
transition
you fre-
By
Types
morning
of Anti-Fouling
I had managed
Paint:
to get had been four days without
quently
sun
use
and
your
I
boat,
and the
or if
sea
you
and
give
I wer
the
e
boat’s
dancing
bottom
as one,
a
There are two main types of anti-fouling paint: Ablative and good scrubbing after each use, a hard paint is probably
a few
har
hours
d-finish
of
anti-fouling
real sleep,
paint.
in between
Ablative
felt
paint
my
is
spirits
suitable
lift
for
again.
your
This
better
became
choice.
once
The har
again.
d anti-fouling
Now my
paints
driving
start
need
leach-
to
getting
sailboats
up and
and
having
slower
a
powerboats,
look around
while
a
har
truly
d-finish
wonderful
paint is
day
ing
as even
out biocides
the sea
on
come
contact
out her
with
e again
the water
made
,
perfect
in a sort
sense
of
every better hour for or racing so. I sailboats knew that and today’s faster powerboats. creatures came by to welcome timed-release me back fashion. although in a way that can’t really be
ships could be over the horizon and to their world. First, it was two
After
whales,
a period
described
of time, most
in wor
often
ds.Clock
6 months
time
to a
stood
year,
on top of me within 20 minutes, but humpback I think, that
the
slowly
paint
cr
has
ossed
leached
still. I had r
out all of
eturned home!
its biocides, and a new coat
as a singlehander, that was a risk I had my path so close ahead
of
I
paint
had to
will
alter
be needed,
The
thus
breeze,
increasing
along
your
with
haul-out
my reverie,
fre-
already decided to take. The ships were course to avoid them
quency
as they
and
raised
costs.
Additionally,
held
hard
into
anti-fouling
the night
paint
and I was
needs
reluctant
to be
a small enough risk but I knew the their giant tails and sounded
removed
just
befor
50
e a fr
to
esh
end
coat
my
is
car
applied.
ess with the elements but
dangers of no sleep would ultimately feet away. Then a group of dolphins I knew I must sleep. If we could keep
do me in. The constant overcast of came by jumping high out In Summaryof the water sailing at this speed we could make 35
the previous day had a higher ceiling as if to say hello. An hour
Whether
later I
you
came
opt to
miles
use bottom
instead
paint
of losing
or not,
another
your vessel’s
eight
now so I thought it might break later upon a big sunfish basking
hull integrity
lazily on
is one
or
of
so
the
to
most
the curr
important
ent hove-to.
aspects
So,
to
I
con-
left
and provide some sun. I got Shariyat the surface, its upper
sider
fin seemingly
Proper care and
it to
knowledge
Fred and laid
on how
down.
to pr
Ther
otect
e
your
was
back under way in a light breeze, the waving at me. Two sharks
hull
made
in the
a
conditions
brief no
it
need
is used
to set
will
an
extend
alarm
its
to
life,
get
impr
up and
ove
performance and ensure the owner more time on the water.
sea having laid down overnight and appearance and then
When
finned
considering
away. look
paints,
around
resear
as
ch
I
your
didn’t
options,
feel tir
consult
ed and
the boat’s motion was much better. I Occasionally an albatr
with
oss
your
adeptly
local contractor
couldn’t
or
sleep
marine
anyway
store to
. I
ensur
got up
e you
often
or
had been keeping as accurate a dead- dipped and banked in your and contractor out of the applies when the the corrwind ect prdiroduct ection for had the vessel’seluded
reckoning plot as I could, made much wave-tops soaring, wings
intended
seemingly
use.
Fred and gave him a new course.
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