[Public-List] Barnacles

[Mike Meinhold via Public-List]

Last year was worse, but this year is bad - only takes two weeks to grow
big fat barnacles.
Hopefully we are past the peak, but the only solution is to scrape them off
(or spin your prop twice a week!)

I don't  mind free-diving  so I clean my prop almost every time I anchor
the boat. zThis weekend two weeks of barnacles equaled  at least 1  1/2
knots under power, and probably the same for sailing with all the barnacles
I cleaned off the bottom.

Phil Beigel once showed me his stainless steel scraper on a long pole -
with lots of practice and skill your can clean the prop from the cockpit.

Mike
Rinn Duin #272

On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 3:16 PM, Greg Bover via Public-List <
public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:

> I had the same problem but now every spring I wire brush then spray the
> prop
> with a couple of coats of zinc paint from the auto parts store. Works great
> for me up here in Gloucester.
>
>   >>>>   Barnacles grow on my propeller at a great rate. I may put bottom
> paint on it when I haul out, but the stuff wears off quickly. Of late I
> have had a scuba diver scrape the prop early in June of years when I
> don't haul out, but by the end of the summer the barnacles are back, to
> greater or lesser degree.<<<<
>
> Greg Bover
> A-30 #114
> PENSIVE
> Gloucester
>
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