The answer to Marine Growth

[Larryrsf]

Originally Posted by Destroyer

Larry, given your age, I don't know your physical strength or general overall health. But most of us just slide the boat off the trailer onto concrete blocks. Paint it and then back the trailer back under the bow and winch it back onto the trailer.

By the way, you can buy plastic sliders for the tops of your bunks that will make launching and retrieving your boat much easier. Available on eBay in many sizes and materials. This is just one link:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/48-x-3-NEW-B...089d56&vxp=mtr

I remember that Reelapeelin painted his boat a few years back and he posted pictures of the process. Do a search and I'm sure you'll find it.

Love it! Thanks! The company that rebuilt my trailer and installed new bunks could only suggest "garbage bags" as covers to save my new bunks from marine growth. I will buy enough of this stuff to cover my bunks!

I will definitely cover my bunks with that plastic or teflon stuff, then load the boat and haul it somewhere for bottom cleaning and painting. If at the end of the season, I will do that job where the trailer is now (see the photos).

I read everyone's suggestions for painting a boat on a trailer and I like this best:

"blockin' it up off the trailer is the only way to get to the rest...I let the tongue all the way down, then blocked up the center of the stern...then raised the tongue, which lifts the stern after it bottoms out on the blocks...w/the tongue up, block up the bow, drop the tongue again and VOILA!...she's flyin'!!...stiff leg the sides...jack and block again as the axles go out from under and never had to tie it off at all...the trailer jack does the work"

Larry

[Destroyer]

Originally Posted by Larryrsf

Love it! Thanks! The company that rebuilt my trailer and installed new bunks could only suggest "garbage bags" as covers to save my new bunks from marine growth. I will buy enough of this stuff to cover my bunks!

I will definitely cover my bunks with that plastic or teflon stuff, then load the boat and haul it somewhere for bottom cleaning and painting. If at the end of the season, I will do that job where the trailer is now (see the photos).

I read everyone's suggestions for painting a boat on a trailer and I like this best:

"blockin' it up off the trailer is the only way to get to the rest...I let the tongue all the way down, then blocked up the center of the stern...then raised the tongue, which lifts the stern after it bottoms out on the blocks...w/the tongue up, block up the bow, drop the tongue again and VOILA!...she's flyin'!!...stiff leg the sides...jack and block again as the axles go out from under and never had to tie it off at all...the trailer jack does the work"

Larry

Glad to be of help.

Just remember, even though these are only 20 foot boats they weigh over a ton and they have no conscious. They will crush you in a second. No matter how you wind up painting the bottom, BE CAREFUL and always make sure your boat is 110% secure before getting under it to paint. We want to be talking to you, not about you.

[Larryrsf]

Originally Posted by Destroyer

Glad to be of help.

Just remember, even though these are only 20 foot boats they weigh over a ton and they have no conscious. They will crush you in a second. No matter how you wind up painting the bottom, BE CAREFUL and always make sure your boat is 110% secure before getting under it to paint. We want to be talking to you, not about you.

Yeah! Lets not create the sad story of the old fart in San Diego who read that he should paint the bottom of his boat and then got crushed by it!"

Thanks! I am very very aware that jacks collapse, cars roll, etc resulting in accidents in which people get injured or killed under cars or boats or whatever. I will endeavor to avoid that. I didn't reach age 73 by being stupid! ha

Hence my attraction to the method in which the trailer jack is used to raise the boat a few inches off the trailer, enough to paint under the bunks and rollers, but not enough to create a potential disaster. If it falls, it falls back onto the trailer. It might crush the paint roller-- but not my arm!

Thanks again!

Larry

[ssiredfish]

If your'e real lucky find someone goin to the Bahamas and have em pick you up a gallon of Tributylene-10......We had a boat painted with that stuff and nothin would even grow on the side of the dock you parked it on!!!

[Larryrsf]

Originally Posted by ssiredfish

If your'e real lucky find someone goin to the Bahamas and have em pick you up a gallon of Tributylene-10......We had a boat painted with that stuff and nothin would even grow on the side of the dock you parked it on!!!

Thanks! I remember when the Navy used bottom paint that contained all sorts of horrible toxic stuff! But of course our radical environmentalists made that and DDT impossible.

Larry

[Road King Cole]

In the CG we used "Red Lead" and "Blue death", I am sure it was harmless stuff...

BTW, when I has someone paint the bottom of the V20 I had, he left it on the trailer (roller trailer) and used a paint roller with an extension. After it was dry, he let the boat roll down a few feet and painted the area's missed by the rollers.

rkc