Long term affect of leaving boat in the water

[SHEP]

What are some long term affect for leaving your boat in the water in Havasu? My sister has had our Conquest in the water for a month. She wipes it down daily but worried it's going to the thrashed.

 

[MrMayhem]

A month? Algae and staining of the bottom for sure.
When I leave my boat in for even just a few days, the prop and transom hardware get calcium build up that’s super hard to get off.


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[Tank]

Quagga muscles getting up in the bell housing eventually. Also gel coat left long term in water can get what’s known as Osmosis. It’s where water penetrates the outer layer of the gel coat causing tiny bubbles or blisters. Left Unchecked it can be a serious problem.

With that said, I wouldn’t sweat keeping it in water for a month or two. Pull it out for a few days good detail and check over let it dry out completely then back in for a month or two.

 

[TCHB]

Just walk around the docks and you can see all the boats left in. I would never leave my boat in more than a week.

 

[DrunkenSailor]

Would doing a ceramic coat help with the staining and potential gelcoat issues?

 

[BingerFang]

I think the long term effect of not having your boat in the water is a longer list....

 

[fishing fool]

Nothing will happen to it if you take care of it.

I have friends (on here, just don't know his inmate name) that leaves his Eliminator fun deck in the marina all summer long. He DOSE take it out of the water every other week and gives it a good cleaning.

 

[Boat 405]

Depends how much you like your stuff and how anal you are. The longest I leave my boat in the water is a 7 days at Lake Powell. Prop gets hammered from hard water deposits. Other than that I clean the scum line off every day. When I leave my boat in the water in Yuma for a weekend, the water is worse and so is the scum line, but manageable. All summer long.... well that's your choice but you'll need to be prepared for deep cleaning when it's out.

 

[PlanB]

I would not leave a nice glass boat in the water long term. I even have my toon on a lift down there. There are a few nice boats on our dock (DCB, Magic & Eliminator) and they only leave them in for the weekend. The longest I have left my glass boats in was about 4 days. I would get a lift if you want to keep it in the water longer than that.

 

[QC22]

Previous boat partner left ours in for a month, Havasu. It came out with a seriously stained hull, but a decent detail/rub out cleaned it up. For me, two weeks max, with one being preferred. There's one here at the Landing that's been on a buoy for 7 weeks. I can see a green glow now when he comes in every evening.

 

[jetboatperformance]

Not good for Jets , especially in brackish dissimilar metals and resultant corrosion

 

[Dkahnjob]

The worst thing about leaving any fibergass boat in the water long term as already mentioned by Tank is the blistering of the gel coat.
Once the gel coat is blistered there is no going back. So if you are planning on leaving any boat in the water long term or permanently put bottom paint on it and re coat it every 3 years.

 

[steak&lobster]

Would doing a ceramic coat help with the staining and potential gelcoat issues?

Yes but almost no one wants to pay extra $ to have the bottom coated.

 

[steak&lobster]

What are some long term affect for leaving your boat in the water in Havasu? My sister has had our Conquest in the water for a month. She wipes it down daily but worried it's going to the thrashed.

Add a acid wash $125-$300 depending on severity to those figures I gave you earlier

 

[retaocleg]

in the heat, blistering can be a prob here in lhc……….or any other warm climate
try a hair dryer to heat and dissapate the blisters

 

[RiverDave]

What are some long term affect for leaving your boat in the water in Havasu? My sister has had our Conquest in the water for a month. She wipes it down daily but worried it's going to the thrashed.

There's plenty of people that leave their boats in the water year round out here. You can pay a Diver 100 bucks and he goes by and scrubs the bottom of the boat once a month.

RD

 

[retaocleg]

Would doing a ceramic coat help with the staining and potential gelcoat issues?

if you have a prob with the gel being milky, try a hair drier...……..seen boats in the mold with water in them cause the milkiness, and we would hit them with a hair drier and the heat would slowly return it to normal......gelcoat is porous and absorbs the water...........migh help you......helps with some small blisters too

 

[WATERDOG]

Just walk around the docks and you can see all the boats left in. I would never leave my boat in more than a week.

No kidding. Got a far end spot at the Marina. Walking down the dock I would swear some of the boats haven't been moved in 20 years or more.

 

[ElAzul]

Also a good way to find out if yore bellows, underwater hardware etc. has a small leak. Left one of my old ski boats in the Delta for a night next morning it was sitting about a foot lower in the water. Packing gland in the rudder was dripping just enough to add up overnight.

 

[SOCALCRICKETT]

Osmosis would be my concern, as mentioned before porous gel coat can and will let water seem into the gel eventually causing little blisters. These are the "boat pox" everybody talks about. Colorado River boats and arrowhead boats are known to be more susceptible to them. I was told once it is the alkali in river water and old batteries dumped into arrowhead that cause it. I don't know if there any truth to the theory of why it happens but I do know it is expensive to fix. Years ago I had a baja that I dearly loved but ended up selling after found it had pox. 15 years ago I was quoted in the thousands to fix it

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