Practical CCDOA: propeller protection

[Ed Haley]

After reading all the input on various methods of preventing the prop from fouling, the thought occurred to me that maybe as a group we should each try a different method on our own boat and see how the process holds up during the coming boating season. Some techniques seem to be very inexpensive (Capt. Stump's stove black) to expensive commercial applications (like InterLux Veridian).

I'd like to try putting a few coats of metal primer on the prop and then coating it with TriLux like I used to use on my 90 hp Yamaha (in fresh water). Before and after pictures would be good. Next year about this time we'd all have a pretty good idea what worked and what didn't. Like Capt. Stump, I like the K.I.S.S. methods best but there may be better solutions.

There's really no special work involved. Just remember what you did and tell us how it worked. Maybe remembering is the hard part after reading about all these GROG parties lined up for next summer. Heh heh!



eghaley@twcny.rr.com

[Ken Cave]

As I leave my boat in the water year round (yes we do sail year round in the San Juans!) I hire a diver to clean the bottom and inspect all the thru hulls, prop, zinc, which he does every other month. It is the worth the $40.00 just to be sure that the engine intake is not full of growth, or the prop is not being eaten up due to zinc failure!

And, I don't have to worry about what is growing on the prop either!

Ken Cave
Dragon Tale
CD 28 #227



bcave@whidbey.net