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    Posted: 16 Nov 06 at 1:11pm

My Dad's nickname was Captain Chloros(?) because he was the only idiot that ever volenteered to clean our slip and that's what he used. I expect it's very harmful to marine life and probably does strange things to human life too - if you ever meet my Dad you'd see what I mean.

Sand sounds like a good idea... or maybe a winch?
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Winch would get my vote too but I'm sure there are all sort of H&S regulations that would get us into trouble. More pertinently, the slip in question is 35m away from any source of power.

 
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what about putting down some of this type of stuff?

http://www.polymax.co.uk/mainframe%20rubber%20products.htm

edit:click catalogue products, then rubber mat, second one down. link didn't go where i thought it did

I thought they had something like this outside the sailing school bit at datchet. Algae still grows on it but the profile gives more grip than smooth concrete.

I don't agree with Datchet's "we don't sweep it we just tell people it's slippy" theory. surely sweeping it and still telling people it may be slippy achieves the same bum covering exercise but actually allows people to get in and out of the water without killing themselves?

 



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Originally posted by SX Girl

what about putting down some of this type of stuff?

Isn’t it just old worn out ski slope matting used by the school at Datchet?

 

They just ain’t bloody well got enough of the stuff down!

 

Last time I was at Datchett I had to crawl out of the water on all fours  , collect the wheels and aim them roughly at the bows whilst entering the water on my arse at mach 1 , finally having got the boat on the wheels with the bows almost intact I then had to crawl out of the water on my hands & knees once again, whilst clutching the main halyard between my teeth , then once securely located on clean non slippery concrete, proceed to haul the boat out of the water using the afore mentioned halyard – easy!!  The perks of coming first I guess no one around to help?  I had a crew to try and hold the boat whilst all these shenanigans were going on, for the love of Christ I don’t know how the single handers manage?

 

If it were pulled/rolled up during the week I’m pretty sure all algae would just die naturally!

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Chloros is a trade name for sodium Hypochlorite. Same stuff they put in swimming pools and clean milking parlour pipelines with. Not sure about current regs for use in drinking water but would probably kill all the algae along with most of the other pond life if used in sufficient strength.
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Sodium hypochlorite is commonly used in drinking water treatment plants for disinfection...it does kill things very well.
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