Hello everyone, we're new to this!
We have just driven to Crete and will be antifouling our boat tomorrow. We’ve clearly not given enough thought to antifouling the centreboard. Can anyone advise whether it is essential to do the centreboard. The issues are:-
Difficult to raise the boat high enough to let the centreboard down
The raising and lowering of our centreboard is not easy. A collection of barnacles etc would make it impossible?
We are in deep water in the marina but may wish to ‘beach’ and anyway have flexibility on the centreboard for occasional motoring etc.
We’ve spent our first Summer with our Mac 26X in the Lake District and have no experience with sea water on a boat of our own.
Any help/advice you can give will be appreciated.
Regards
Cath & Mike Harney
I was thinking about this as we need to antifoul the boat of our 26x, the centre board I had not considered but the parts supported by the trailer were going to be a problem until I found this link, it may help you access the centre board.
http://mac26.co.uk/Antifouling_Application_Method.htm
simon
Thank you for that Simon. Very helpful. We have just arranged to pay £34 to have it lifted by crane tomorrow but we may well follow the advice in the link when we are more settled and the antifouling paint is readily available next year.
More about Crete on the other thread with Bjorn
Thanks again
Mike
Hi
Autifoul the centerboard !
Don't antifoul the rudders.
Regards
Jose
Cheers
Jose
http://arianeoveleiro.blogspot.com
Don't anti-foul the rudders??
I leave mine down to stop the Mac dance, and they are absolutely thick with weed, I was definitely thinking of anti-fouling them over the winter. Why not?
Paul
[Ex 'Crackerjack' - 26M]
Hi Paul
Conflicting advice here then. Mast is now up. Antifouling tin now empty. Think we'll suck it and see for now. Thanks
Mike
Hi
It depends on how you keep your boat.
If it is home on the trailer or in a pier your rudders will stay out of the water +95% of the time.
If you keep your boat mooring with rudders down "antifoul" them because they will be on the water 95% of the time..
Antifouling the rudders as 2 problems.
The material is not prepared for drying in the sun and will look ugly but the most serious one is that when swimming from the boat we get dirty with antifouling specialy going up or down on the ladder and the thing is not very good for our skin...
I know that SUN and SWIMMING may be south people ideas :lol: :twisted: 8-)
Sorry for not being so clear the first time.
Regards
Jose.
Cheers
Jose
http://arianeoveleiro.blogspot.com
Hi Jose
Many thanks for that, we'll be on a jetty with the rudders out and therefore won't be antifouling. We definately don't want the antifouling material scraping against us as we get in and out of the water. We intend to do a lot of swimming off this boat.
Cath
Ahh, I see, thanks for the clarification Jose, looks like I will be using that antifoulling then, no swimming in the Tamar, that water is fiiiilthy :o .
Cath and Mike, sorry to hijack your thread and for being so rude as to not say hello first, but better late than never, Hello :D . I do envy your chosen sailing ground............
I've only had my M since the begining of this year, and it's been in the water for precisely 3 months now, so plenty to learn and much fun to be had. As it happens we are on a short break down in Cornwall now, so hoping to get some sailing in before the end of the season here.
Paul
[Ex 'Crackerjack' - 26M]
No problem at all. We too are very new to Macgregor ownership and also have a lot to learn. We've just 'rigged' our boat today and will launch tomorrow (wind conditions permitting). It took us longer than we anticipated to put up the mast and attach the sails and we have made notes for future ref! Good luck with your sailing and thanks to all for helpful contributions. Hopefully we'll be in a position to help one day!
Cath & Mike