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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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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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All the information, images, statements, and responses to comments on both our website and our YouTube channel, are published in good faith and for general information and entertainment purposes only, and we do not make any warranties about the completeness, reliability and accuracy of this information, not for any product or technique that you may learn about here. Any action you take upon the information you find on our website or channel is strictly at your own risk, and we will not be liable for any losses and/or damages in connection with the use of anything presented here.
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Great video! Looking to get into boat cleaning this summer so I’m watching these videos and getting PADI certified this winter
approximately how long does this process take for you?
Here in South Florida during summer after a week or two there’s barnacles
Suction cups do not work. You need to be a good diver in order to clean a bottom. Plus he’s going in with no protection to his body. That growth is sharp. Yeah hire a diver to clean your boat.
"If you have barnacles on the bottom of your boat or anything, then you really should just be hauling the boat out and painting it" 🤣🤣🤣 If your boat was in Florida you would be hauling it out and painting every 2-4 weeks
You need a wait belt to offset your own lung buoyancy
Great video! This helps a lot. Our sailboat really needs to be cleaned soon!
I will show you how we clean our bottom lmao
A wetsuit with no weight belt holds you to the bottom and you just crawl along. Can also put an inner tube around the tank and let it float.
I use the same rig for zinc replacement and pulling wheels.
Where can I buy the three scrubbis and suction cup online I can’t find them any where ?
Thanks
My husband used these plans from Stodoys and he is very pleased.
Bottom paint doesnt always do it. It may help somewhat, but nothing beats a diver scraping.
HOw can the guy see anything in that dirty water.
Great video sir, do let me know if you up for taking an extra hand when you sail.
Hey guys, just wondering where you got you dive regulator hose from? Cheers
It is not prudent to tie the suction cup to the hand.
Genius..Many thanks to Hank, the man clearly knows his business, thanks and applause!!
I have to ask this question …As someone who dove commercially years ago, who has cleaned hulls then and often since then as family know ' you can dive' .
Why are you not using a snorkel for the surface areas?
Many times working a snorkel would be useless, but being basically on the surface cleaning that hull, a snorkel would be way better than holding your breath for a minute then lifting your head out of the water to breathe. I remember way back to teachings of proper equipment to do a job & working near the surface a snorkel would be perfect.
Hey Patrick,
Very Nice job on the video and cleaning your bottom in an organized way . Also How long you can expect to get out of … Prop Speed … I just used that on my prop on my Pacific Seacraft and did not know how long of life I would get form it's use. As we all know.. Prop Speed is very expensive but seems to work very well and worth the money if you get two years out of one application.
Robert
North Star
Thanks. good work.
What paint do you use on your propeller? Happy New year 2020
Only a sailor will walk around in the rain as though it were a dry day. Smile
What is your opinion of the best bottom paint??
Great video Patrick. Merry Christmas and a happy new year to both of you. Thanks for sharing 👍😎🍺🇿🇦
This looks pretty interesting loved watching the Maintenance! Have a Merry Christmas new friend Ruthie
Are you still in Richards Bay? If so, have you located Porkys again? Thank you for the company, although it was kind of noisy – bad environment for Patrick who cannot hear too well, and me who battles to speak at the best of times! Where are you heading after Zululand? I thought you said Cape Town, which is beautiful at any time of year but way too much traffic. I have family who live in East London, and good friends who live in Port Elizabeth.
Steve Killick
Fore years I had three sailboats, a Cal 20, Cal 25 and a Ranger 33, that were kept in the water in Southern California. I started with a hookah, because that is what the professional boat cleaners did. Must be right, right? No. If you are only doing one boat, it is much easier to use a scuba tank on a bouyancy compensator. You can become positively bouyant to push up against the bottom for more pressure on the pad, and you are not restricted by the hose. Handling a hose underwater around the keel and rudder is a pain in the butt. Pro boat cleaners use a hookah because they want to run a compressor instead of having to get a bunch of tanks filled and transported to their jobs. If you are only cleaning your own boat, ditch the hookah. An added benefit? If you are actually a scuba diver, handling your actual equipment while cleaning your boat will really increase your competence, and therefore your safety, when you finally get to dive for fun. –Russ, Sailing Vessel Coyote, ABYC, Long Beach, California
Maybe someone already mentioned this, but I was thinking of a small air compressor for this very purpose rather than an air tank. Thoughts?
Have you seen the Remora Solo? Game changer.
Solid video Patrick
Don’t do this by yourself either…
I would avoid this in San Diego or VA Beach. Navy ship active sonar tests could injure or even kill you. Over the side in a marina generally not great.
Ah, the infamous SWAN 48 Avocation.
Don't buy that one….
Like having a baby and keeping her bottom wiped and scraped of barnacles….ha!
Very useful post. Looks like you're using a Kiwi prop. Hod do you like it?