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Originally Posted by danjarch
I wouldn't beach them to clean them. You can clean them in the water with a pressure washer and a hoka rig. You don't have to be certified to use a hoka. |
If you care about your anti fouling
paint (or the integrity of your hull, for that matter) you will never use a pressure washer to clean your hull underwater. Underwater pressure washing (or "jetting" as it is known in the biz) is best done with equipment designed for the purpose, and none of that kind of equipment is available at Home Depot, I can assure you. Further, regardless of what you use to pressure wash your boat's bottom underwater, the resistance of the surrounding water will require that you have to get the washer tip so close to the hull that you will literally blast your anti fouling off the boat. If you are not careful you can actually damage the hull, as well.
BTW, you don't have to be certified to dive with SCUBA gear, either. But anybody breathing compressed air underwater (be it from SCUBA or a hookah) should understand the dangers involved. You could injure or kill yourself even at the depths required to do hull cleaning.