This is not a scientific approach to producing clean waters in Puget Sound.
It is ridiculous to propose that a towel wipe of a sailboat bottom is going
to negatively effect the ecology nearly as much as the thousands of pounds
of petroleum products that wind up in Puget Sound via street water runoff,
gas powered work and pleasure boats, and commercial manufacturing by
products. The toxic coatings on commercial shipping greatly exceeds the
effects of cleaning all of the sailboats in Puget Sound. If you want to
keep Puget Sound "pure", go back to horses on land, and sailboats on the
sea.
I write for the thousand sailors that participate in the J35 Class
Association.
Please forward the data that you have that indicates how much
copper is added to the Sound when one 35' sailboat is "towel wiped" in the
water.
Wayne A. Berge Received on Tue Apr 7 10:24:26 1998