cock up.

[woodsy]

Noticed water on the floor after I beached my beauty. Thought it was from rain.
Scraped the bottom, put her back on the mooring & found water under the sink! I'd left the cock open when I beached it! Luckily the drain was oyster clogged or she would've filled on the incoming tide. Damned lucky.
For the record, hull scrapings are collected on a tarp & go in my compost bin. Yacht is not antifouled.

[Troppo]

Wow, that was lucky, Woodsy. Scary thinking about what might have happened.

And don't you boil up the hull scrapings and make barnacle soup?

troppo

[Ianb]

Yacht not anti-fouled? WOW -
Why?
Boat bag?
How often do you have to careen her?
Do the barnacles dig into the gel coat?
Where do you moor?

[Phillip]

How about some photos Woodsy!

[woodsy]

Phillip....I'm not pretty.

Ianb.... I never liked the idea of poison in my bay....from me. I was going to make a boat bag. Never happened. Longest time between cleans was 4 months, lots of growth but barnacles scaped off ok. If I careen it every month, it's a half hour maximum scrape each side. Moored at the mouth of Elvina bay in Pittwater for past 5 years.

Troppo. It made me stew!