hull coatings for speed
06-21-2006, 02:17 PM
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Re: hull coatings for speed
Originally Posted by stevesxm
ah ha.... well... with some of these magic beans you never know when people are serious and who is believing whaqt fairy tale that day......
BUT as for the blisters.... i worked on some americas cup boat stuff where an unamed company developed a golf ball like surface finsh in micron size that , infact did reduce the parasitic drag by a real and repeatable number... and it WAS like little mini blisters... was worth real boat speed... but of course those boats have a lot of hull in the water all the time...
BUT as for the blisters.... i worked on some americas cup boat stuff where an unamed company developed a golf ball like surface finsh in micron size that , infact did reduce the parasitic drag by a real and repeatable number... and it WAS like little mini blisters... was worth real boat speed... but of course those boats have a lot of hull in the water all the time...
We usually don't joke much in the tech section. We usually leave these threads alone because some poor guy has a real problem that he is trying to solve.
06-21-2006, 03:08 PM
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Re: hull coatings for speed
How about another twist on the same question.
What can i put on my hull to protect it while it's sitting in the well, short of painting the bottom? 2 days and it's got a scumline that takes acid to remove. I want to leave it in most of the summer but don't want it to blister.
What can i put on my hull to protect it while it's sitting in the well, short of painting the bottom? 2 days and it's got a scumline that takes acid to remove. I want to leave it in most of the summer but don't want it to blister.
06-21-2006, 06:29 PM
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Re: hull coatings for speed
well.. i have absolutely NO authorative answer for that BUT if there IS really some teflon based " stuff " then that might be the ticket... absolutely nothing sticks to that... (and as such thats why you don't see those waxes etc because they don't stick to the substrate...) but be warned... dupont stopped selling teflon to all those scam guys because of all the lawsuits... im not certain that ANYTHING you buy these days like additives that claim to have teflon actually do... i would look for the dupont trade mark before i believed it.
