Flying Clouds steel keel box UHP water blasting

With such high pressure care must be taken to ensure safety,over blasting of other boats is not however a hazard,the water only has intense pressure up to about 40mm from the nozel tip,then it looses its high power very quickly.




A full technical team was sent to evaluate the job,nothing is left to chance,the Sigma primer paint was even applied by the same team.

The ultra high pressure pump,this uses only water and runs at a pressure of some 2000 bars,the job was to remove the paints and rust from my steel keel shoe,the job took about three and a half hours,thats about eleven coats of paints (ten years worth) plus any rust.

When a diver who was changing a propellor shaft anode said the keel anode is missing,we knew trouble was ahead,why the anode had gone is open to discussion,other boats have had bothers too,it may be an electrical thing.