How to Clean the Bottom of a Sailboat Underwater! (Tips from the Pros #4 /Patrick Childress #55)

How to Clean your sailboat bottom (a sailboat hull), under water. These are hull cleaning tips from a professional who has been cleaning boat boat bottoms for decades. Boat owners now how to save money by cleaning your boat bottom / hull in the marina or at anchor, and this should be part of the sailboat maintenance routine. Whether you use a scuba tank to clean the hull, a Sea breathe hookah, underwater breathing apparatus, or just snorkels, fins and a mask, regular underwater bottom cleaning is something all boat owners who want to save money can do. It’s just part of maintaining a sailboat, if you are sailing around the world. Some antifouling paints are better than others at keeping the bottom clean. Coppercoat can offer a solution too, though regular bottom scrubbing, and hull cleaning is necessary even with this...there are no free rides it seems! Boat owners save money by doing regular underwater hull cleaning, but you can also pay a diver to clean the bottom of your sailboat too. But if there are many barnacles on your boat, then it’s probably time to haul the boat, and apply new antifouling paint.

Hank Schmitt, owner of Offshore Passage Opportunities, and a professional scuba diver, demonstrates how he keeps the bottom of his Swan 48, Avocation, free from barnacles and other marine growth. He demonstrates cleaning around the waterline by using a suction cup, and then how he uses a scuba tank, that he leaves on deck, to clean the sailboat prop and the sailboat keel. Patrick Childress shows a link to his hull cleaning process with using a 12 volt powered hookah. The video finishes up with some scenes from the hookah cleaning.

About Hank Schmitt: Hank owns a company called Offshore Passage Opportunities, a premier crew networking site. He also runs the North American Rally to the Caribbean (NARC) then does the return trip in the spring. Hank has been, for decades, a delivery skipper, successful race boat captain and professional diver and rigger. Check out his website at http:/www.sailopo.com
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DISCLAIMER Specifically, in regards to this video... When working in the water on your boat, in a salt water marina, it is a wise precaution to disconnect all shore power and have neighboring boats do as well. This is even more true in a fresh water marina. Do not run an on board generator when swimmers are in the water. Swimming can be dangerous, Boating and sailing can be dangerous, cleaning your boat in a marina where there is a stray current, microbes bacteria or wild animals and fish can be dangerous, in the open ocean or an enclosed bay. All of them can be dangerous with both animals and pollution in the water. Swimming under your boat can present dangers. We take no responsibility for anything you do or don’t do in connection with what you have learned in this video or on this channel. Get a SCUBA certification before using any compressed air underwater. Read all tool manuals and thoroughly understand their use and safety precautions before using.

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