Dinghy hull coatings

Or if you are feeling really keen, look at a roundabout after a heavy rainstorm and see the pretty rainbow patterns from all the diesel mixing with the rainwater. Roundabouts are particularly prone to diesel spilling out of lorries as they go round the sharp turn.

It was a petrol car, but maybe I'd tailgated a truck or something.... but definitely a noticeable effect.

Or maybe just in your head? Not yours specifically, but I think most of us feel good about having a nicely finished, clean hull, and "feel fast". Not to be underestimated, that feeling.

Knickers severely in a twist here over nothing people.

The rule prohibits two separate treatments.

As I said before, if my memory serves me right RRS 53 was originally written to prohibit a polymer based material that you gunged on before the day's sailing, and which slowly dissolved/melted/something or another into the water over the day. I'm certain any kind of normal wax or teflon polish is just fine.

The textured surface bit was added later to ban the riblets stuff Dougal mentioned on page 1. It would be easy enough to spot and distinguish from a 60 grit sandpaper finish because it has to be specially aligned with water flow etc.

These are both expensive complicated and time consuming treatments, and in the case of the gunge polluting as well. Its a good thing that they are banned, but the rule has absolutely no relevance to ordinary club sailors like me, and probably most of you.

Edited by JimC - 13 Dec 13 at 4:28am

Originally posted by Rupert I think it has to be specially textured for the job, rather than just be put on with a trowel in the absence of a paintbrush! Now, depending upon what you drink, weeing down the centreboard case could be seen as releasing a substance to improve laminer flow.