What would be the best way to remove algae from my boat,is there someway to prevent or slow it down
dwolf
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My boat has been having to sit in the water as I have not been able to find a lift for it so it's getting algae on it, as long it was in the water I could use a brush and fairly easily remove the algae but when I remove the boat from the water to try to clean the algae off the Ozzie and dried before I got a chance to do it and now I'm having trouble removing it is there any way this better than any other or is there a easy way to do this I used a pressure washer which removed a lot of it but what's left on there is not wanting to come off
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Mark
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Boat Name: King Kong
"Boat + Water = Fun"
Here's what I found to work best from start to finish as soon as I remove the boat from the water I pulled off to the side where I wasn't blocking anyone and took a couple of plastic scrapers like because you would spread Bondo with on the car something like that and scraped as much as it off as I possibly could which came off fairly easily like this and then immediately started pressure washing and pressure washed as much off as I possibly could then on the next go around I had someone with a big pump up spray bottle missed acid starting at the lower part of the boat first and working my way up to the top because doing it the other way around was causing it to streak real bad but I would leave the acid on there depending on the weather conditions of anywhere from a couple of minutes to maybe five minutes even it just depends on the temp. I did it in small sections at a time so that I didn't have to worry about the acid drying and pressure washed the boat just moving slowly back-and-forth with the water stream hitting the boat an angle so that would get under the algae and scum in Weston off it also helped by buying what's called a turbo tip to put on the pressure washer giving it a lot more force. Then the next go-round we sprayed the boat with acid again and used soft bristle brushes like you would use in a car wash except a little softer and scrub the heck out of it making sure to not let any of the acid dry keeping the trailer nice and wet to keep the acid from staining the trailer I think we spent 10 or 12 hours doing the hall on my 24 foot Rinker 232 Captiva. Then about two weeks later I did everything all over again it came off a lot easier this time because I had buffed and waxed the bottom of the boat before I put it in and it only went two weeks instead of four weeks this time between cleaning . Well I can see this was going to get old real quick so I finally broke down and invested the money in a really nice brand-new custom made boatlift so no more having to pull the boat out of the water to scrub the whole down to get the algae off of it now it's just a simple wash and wax I appreciate everyone's input now,I took a little advice from several of you and came up with my own conclusion here hopefully what I came up with my help someone else I'm just glad that I won't have to go through it again like this