[drcoastline]

Afterburn, If you read SCadadles post a few back the body of water this boat is on and presumably the body of water he will navigate is very limited in facilities. No yacht clubs with cranes or marinas with travel lifts. So he would need to hire a private crane to haul and splash the boat. So it seems this boat doesn't have the bottom inspected or painted on a regular basis due to cost and probably logistics. And of course being a lake he can't even ground it on an outgoing tide to inspect, paint, repair the bottom.