first things first, thanks to Andrew at fishing boats nz northshore, Ive finally got my Surtees yesterday, went out at westhaven for a sea trial and couldnt be happier, towed the boat home
and blasted it down with my newly purchased Karcher T5.700 pressure washer and flushed the
engine with fresh water, left it and went to check it out this morning, and this is where the story begins..... my boat is fully covered in white salt deposites! wtf???
I went strait to the nearest burnsco store and bought 1 Litre of Salt-Away and a Salt attack mixer, not knowing if it really works, blasted the boat with it again, let my boat dry for a couple of hours,
went back and checked on it again, guess what happened...... its clean!
not really sure if its the product, or blasting my boat twice that made it clean, so I decide to make
a little test at home. (LOOK DOWN)
First I cut out a piece of aluminium sheet out of a coke can, and dipped it in salt water, letting it dry
and repeat the dipping process 3 times, to simulate a whole day of running in the sea.
(aluminium sheet full of salt deposites, but I accidently deleted the photo from my phone :( but you
will get the idea.)
after that I filled a spray bottle with filtered water and sprayed one side of the sheet 15 times,
and then filled a spray bottle with pre-mixed Salt-Away solution by using the salt attack mixer and sprayed the other side 10 times and rinses the solution off by spraying with filtered water 5 more times.
NOTE. filtered water is used to make sure that the white marks left on the sheet are salt, not residue due to hard water, and Ived used the salt attack mixer to mix the solution to get the real world mixing ratio.
and guess what the result is
this is the side thats been spray cleaned with filtered water.
and this is the side thats been sprayed and rinsed off with Salt-Away solution.
Conclusion: my conclusion is that Salt-Away works like its claimed, bearing in mind
that Ive used a very very powerful water blaster, so hosing your boat and trailer with fresh water
out of a garden hose does nothing other than getting your driveway wet.
maybe my test is not 100% replicating the real world scenario but I think its good enough to convince my self to keep on using this product, and from the results above, I will use it
to flush my engine as well.