{"id":7453,"date":"2009-09-21T12:41:38","date_gmt":"2009-09-21T17:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/zinc-anode-protection-on-aluminum-hulls\/"},"modified":"2009-09-23T02:27:16","modified_gmt":"2009-09-23T07:27:16","slug":"zinc-anode-protection-on-aluminum-hulls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/zinc-anode-protection-on-aluminum-hulls\/","title":{"rendered":"Zinc Anode Protection On Aluminum Hulls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"421\" alt=\"Haul-out-09-245\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/haul-out-09-245.jpg\" width=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve just hauled <em>Wind Horse<\/em> at Berthon&#8217;s in Lymington, UK. Time is short, but we will try and share a few photos. This blog is about the sacrificial zinc anode system.<\/p>\n<p>The photo above is one of the two zincs (out of four total) placed amidships. It has now been in the water 3.5 years, for 4400 hours of engine time, and in excess of 45,000 miles of water flow.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>There is at least 2\/3rds of the zinc left to go.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"308\" alt=\"Haul-out-09-281\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/haul-out-09-281.jpg\" width=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is one of the two zincs on the aft end of the boat. It is a little more used. Some of the factors which affect how these zincs last include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hull wetted surface.<\/li>\n<li>Paint system.<\/li>\n<li>Use of an isolation transformer (or non-use).<\/li>\n<li>Speed through the water.<\/li>\n<li>Zinc size and surface area.<\/li>\n<li>Zinc position.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It looks like our spare zincs will stay in the basement for another three years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve just hauled Wind Horse at Berthon&#8217;s in Lymington, UK. Time is short, but we will try and share a <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/zinc-anode-protection-on-aluminum-hulls\/\">&#8230;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fpb64-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7453"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}