Re: Bottom Paint and Leeboards

The leeboards are lifting keels, not traditional leeboards. They are rigidly pinned to the side of the hull. The windward leeboard stays down if lateral resistance is needed. Running and reaching I often raise the leeboards part way to reduce wetted surface area. Part of each leeboards stays in the water all the time, but that part could be bottom painted whether the rest of the leeboard is or not.

Eric



--- Inbolger@yahoogroups.com, <philbolger@...> wrote:
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> Since you can haul them up and above water, why worry about bottom-paint on leeboards ?
> Even crossing oceans, you'd change your tack a few times, with any 'fresh' growth dying once dry...
> Susanne Altenburger, PB&F
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Eric
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> Sent: Friday, May 25, 2012 10:36 AM
> Subject: [bolger] Bottom Paint and Leeboards
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> ROGUE's leeboards were painted with Awlgrip gold label white bottom paint, and the hull bottom with red. The red is still good. The white has rubbed off large areas of the leeboards and has yellowed. I just checked the price of Awlgrip and at $300 is more than $100 more than Pettit Vivid which is also well recommended and comes in white.
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> After seeing Alert's beautiful lines with leeboards raised and painted to match the hull waterline and paint when raised, I am wondering whether to do the same with ROGUE. Questions include how paint holds up after long submersion. How often the leeboards need to be raised to keep them from fowling?
>
> Decisions. Decisions. And so much to do.
>
> Sometimes the solution to one problems results in solutions to others. I was just contemplating storage of the lateen yard which will solve ROGUE's less than stellar performance in light air. It will be built so it can be stored in two halves. Not easy to store. I was playing this morning with my mock up yard and some ideas I had last night. It dawned on me that I could store them so as to form cockpit back rests, and there doesn't seem to be any way to keep the weight any lower, so why not.
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> Eric
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Since you can haul them up and above water, why worry about bottom-paint on leeboards ?
Even crossing oceans, you'd change your tack a few times, with any 'fresh' growth dying once dry...
Susanne Altenburger, PB&F
----- Original Message -----
From:Eric
Sent:Friday, May 25, 2012 10:36 AM
Subject:[bolger] Bottom Paint and Leeboards

 

ROGUE's leeboards were painted with Awlgrip gold label white bottom paint, and the hull bottom with red. The red is still good. The white has rubbed off large areas of the leeboards and has yellowed. I just checked the price of Awlgrip and at $300 is more than $100 more than Pettit Vivid which is also well recommended and comes in white.

After seeing Alert's beautiful lines with leeboards raised and painted to match the hull waterline and paint when raised, I am wondering whether to do the same with ROGUE. Questions include how paint holds up after long submersion. How often the leeboards need to be raised to keep them from fowling?

Decisions. Decisions. And so much to do.

Sometimes the solution to one problems results in solutions to others. I was just contemplating storage of the lateen yard which will solve ROGUE's less than stellar performance in light air. It will be built so it can be stored in two halves. Not easy to store. I was playing this morning with my mock up yard and some ideas I had last night. It dawned on me that I could store them so as to form cockpit back rests, and there doesn't seem to be any way to keep the weight any lower, so why not.

Eric

ROGUE's leeboards were painted with Awlgrip gold label white bottom paint, and the hull bottom with red. The red is still good. The white has rubbed off large areas of the leeboards and has yellowed. I just checked the price of Awlgrip and at $300 is more than $100 more than Pettit Vivid which is also well recommended and comes in white.

After seeing Alert's beautiful lines with leeboards raised and painted to match the hull waterline and paint when raised, I am wondering whether to do the same with ROGUE. Questions include how paint holds up after long submersion. How often the leeboards need to be raised to keep them from fowling?

Decisions. Decisions. And so much to do.

Sometimes the solution to one problems results in solutions to others. I was just contemplating storage of the lateen yard which will solve ROGUE's less than stellar performance in light air. It will be built so it can be stored in two halves. Not easy to store. I was playing this morning with my mock up yard and some ideas I had last night. It dawned on me that I could store them so as to form cockpit back rests, and there doesn't seem to be any way to keep the weight any lower, so why not.

Eric