Cruiser uno performance report, very good

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Just hauled my Moody 36 after a season in Ocean Village. March to November. 2 coats cruiser uno applied (despite the name). Very impressed,just a thin layer of slime. On the keel cooler and the bottom edge of the keel where there wasn’t any af, thick weed growth. Trilux on the leg did OK but some light tube worm. Prop like a coral garden, totally encrusted with tube worm. That had been acid cleaned and then coated in plastilube, no good, still seeking the magic solution for that.

Volvo prop anode very worn, leg anode lightly worn, pear anode on hull almost gone. Not planning to have a long period ashore next year so a mid season anode change definitely on the cards.
 
What was your typical usage?

None? Occasional Solent? Multi-X-Channel?

As it's an eroding a/f I've always believed you have to use it (the boat) or lose it (the a/f efficiency).
 
Bav34 said:
What was your typical usage?

None? Occasional Solent? Multi-X-Channel?

As it's an eroding a/f I've always believed you have to use it (the boat) or lose it (the a/f efficiency).
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Regular use in Solent, one big 3 week cross channel trip, one Poole Weymouth - certainly not sitting on the mooring. Completely agree about eroding a/f
 
Is there anything to indicate the GI is conducting? The Safeshore comes with a couple of extra LEDS which light if the voltage across the GI becomes excessive (2 X 0.7V I think). I found an issue caused by a neigbouring boat as a result that I'd never have known about with just a GI.
 
Not sure. The gi is buried under the aft berth so not something you can look at easily. Definitely no secondary display at the nav desk for instance. Ocean Village is being reconfigured so a lot of big engineering in the water at the moment, piledrivers, dredgers. I’m on a different berth with different boats alongside so it could be lots of things.
 
stuartwineberg said:
Not sure. The gi is buried under the aft berth so not something you can look at easily. Definitely no secondary display at the nav desk for instance. Ocean Village is being reconfigured so a lot of big engineering in the water at the moment, piledrivers, dredgers. I’m on a different berth with different boats alongside so it could be lots of things.
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Safeshore (seem to have changed their name to Galvanic Isolators) sold me one with their GI. They are selling them separately so you could fit it across anyone else's GI, but looks like they want £35 each. To be honest it wouldn't be difficult to build your own pretty cheaply. I believe GI's have effectively two silicon power diodes in series each way so will conduct at 1.4V (Vf of normal silicon diodes is 0.7V). All you need is a circuit of warning LEDs/diodes in parallel with the GI such that it will light up at 1.4V in either direction.

As I said, I found it very handy. Although the culprit in my case will need two new props for his big MoBo (ouch!) at least I was able to warn him whilst he still had props. But for the LEDs I'd never have suspect the issue existed (apparently the MoBo may have been an issue for two years before I turned up).

By the way, when did you buy your Cruiser Uno? It's well recommended locally and I've used it in the past, but I was worried about the change of name and formula so went for Seajet Shogun this year.
 
lpdsn said:
Safeshore (seem to have changed their name to Galvanic Isolators) sold me one with their GI. They are selling them separately so you could fit it across anyone else's GI, but looks like they want £35 each. To be honest it wouldn't be difficult to build your own pretty cheaply. I believe GI's have effectively two silicon power diodes in series each way so will conduct at 1.4V (Vf of normal silicon diodes is 0.7V). All you need is a circuit of warning LEDs/diodes in parallel with the GI such that it will light up at 1.4V in either direction.

As I said, I found it very handy. Although the culprit in my case will need two new props for his big MoBo (ouch!) at least I was able to warn him whilst he still had props. But for the LEDs I'd never have suspect the issue existed (apparently the MoBo may have been an issue for two years before I turned up).

By the way, when did you buy your Cruiser Uno? It's well recommended locally and I've used it in the past, but I was worried about the change of name and formula so went for Seajet Shogun this year.
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Thanks for the pointer to the indicator gadget, might go there. Cruiser uno was from vitesse marine in Fareham
 
stuartwineberg said:
Thanks for the pointer to the indicator gadget, might go there. Cruiser uno was from vitesse marine in Fareham
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Thanks. Mainly I was curious about whether your results were with the old Cruiser Uno or the latest version which I think is called Cruiser Uno EU.
 
Been using it for years, more recently Cruiser Uno EU naturally (No Br&X1T replies please)
Found the secret is to apply it generously!!
 
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