During our trip out from Boston to Provincetown a few weeks ago, we found a rock ledge in the middle of Boston Harbor. Turns out we ventured a bit outside the channel markers during a low tide - oopsie! Well Jungle needed a good bottom cleaning anyways and had the diver take a video of the damage to the keel. Good news for us - only superficial scrapes in the fiberglass wrapping over the keel. We'll get her repaired after we sail south to Florida in November, December. You can see the video from the link below and see the keel damage - white fiberglass showing through the blue bottom paint on the keel. The video starts from the stern of Jungle and the keel damage is visible at approx. 1:17 into the video - a professional scrape!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtK2QEW1hGs
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Great Video of Jungle's bottom Jim. Looks like you'll need to replace the prop zinc soon as well as apply some barrier kote to the white spots (raw fiberglass) and a full coat of bottom paint before you linger in warmer waters again.
When you do the haul-out work I would suggest a layer of cold water (harder) paint followed by a softer (luffing) paint. My secret recipe, which I'll share with you, is to put a few packets of anti-fungal paint/wallpaper additive into the mix and have it shaken (not stirred) well. You can find the stuff at most Home Depots / Heckingers type places. It spices up the mix just a tad for less long tern growth.
Cheers! and Fair winds, ~Swabby Kai
Thanks for the tip swabby - we head for Cape Canaveral and a haul out in mid December for the bottom repair and paint job. The new zincs will get added as well.
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