Ramona said..




I have used paint, lanolin, stove black and polishing. Polishing was probably the best and it's easy to clean up again in the water. I can reach my prop when snorkeling and give it a scrub and even use a broom from my tender but the folding blades make it awkward. Much easier to use the hookah and take your time cleaning it down. I'm thinking get the prop as shiny as possible by linishing and go crazy with a few Sharpie pens.

PhoenixStar said..




Suggest you use about 120 paper for the sharpie, seems to like a bit of a bite. Met a US couple who swore by them, they were on the hard after a trip through the Panama Canal and across the Pacific. Their prop looked OK to me.

PhoenixStar said..
At the risk of sending this thread off centre, I antifouled last February with Amron ABC3 that was left over from a job 10 years ago. It stirred up OK, went on smoothly and so long as I take the boat for a swim every 2 or 3 week there is no slime on the bottom - except for a bit 6 inches from the bow, but I think i must have hit something there. The boat was left on the mooring for 8 weeks but after taking it for a burn up the bay the bottom looks good again.
I also just used Sharpie permanent marker on the prop. I have had such variable results from propspeed I thought it was worth a try. I have run aground 4 or 5 times since and thought I must have sand blasted all the Sharpie off by now, but last time out, a week ago, I still got 5.5 knots at 2000 RPM which is about normal. It'll be interesting to see what the prop looks like when I come out again in February.

Ramona said..
Actually the bit about the boat moving will not gather shell is a bit of a fallacy. For boats moored in a tidal estuary with a lot of tide flow which is the same as a moving boat will suffer badly from barnacles when the antifoul is depleted. Anchoring or a mooring out of the current makes a significant difference though you will get slime.

Wander66 said..




I think you're spot on Ramona, my boat is mid-channel on a straight and has full tidal flow and a lot more growth than when it was in the enclosed basin at Burnett Heads. Cisco's mooring is 300m downstream from me on the inside of a bend and seems to get a lot less growth even on the mooring tackle.

In regards to the prop I keep thinking some sort of cover that could be removed would solve the problem, how to get it on and off easily and quickly presents another problem

HG02 said..
I was chatting to some one today and they told me about a prop paint when its applied it looks and feels like ceramic colour was white. It was a lot cheaper than prop speed
He could not remember the name of the product but it was available in Melbourne' .
The product came from New Zealand
He said to me on one half is his prop he applied prop speed and the other the ceramic paint from N.Z. He said there was nothing growing on the ceramic side. some on the prop speed.

Ramona said..
If your going with prop speed burnish that prop with 80 grit so the etch paint has something to bite into.

sunycoastguy said..
In New Zealand they have two vertical poles about 10m apart and two horizontal poles,at high tide you moor up to the post and as tide drops the boat sits on horizontal poles and sits out of the water so you can clean hull or any repairs, i though it was a great idea. Has anybody seen them in Australia

sunycoastguy said...
In New Zealand they have two vertical poles about 10m apart and two horizontal poles,at high tide you moor up to the post and as tide drops the boat sits on horizontal poles and sits out of the water so you can clean hull or any repairs, i though it was a great idea. Has anybody seen them in Australia

AshleyM said..




They are called 'grids'..."I'm pitting my yacht on the grud thus Widinsday".

I grew up in Bucklands Beach, Auckland and there were several grids at the old BBYC which comprised of piles which the yacht lashed to, and a series of square, evenly spaced concrete piles which lay flat and athwartships on the sea bed which the keel rests on.

My dad still puts his Lotus 950 on the grid near his house on the Tamiki River. Grids are great for people with lots of time and the clubs that own them usually only charge $10-20 for the use of them.

cisco said...


They are called "Careening Poles". I used to put my Spencer "Adrian" up against them at the Glendowie Yacht Club on the Tamiki River in 1978. They were free to use as a club member back then and club membership was about $25/year.

PhoenixStar said..


Sounds like velox.

www.antifoulingpaint.net/

HG02 said..
Have you used velox on it before Jolene?