Egg on your prop?

[Cotillion]

Has anyone used egg white for antifouling their prop?

Did it work?

 

[Slowtack]

Barnacles love pavlova..............

 

[littlepati]

Put a sausages on once. It made no difference

 

[Malish]

I find the yoke gives a better scramble

 

[trevbouy]

Not April is it?

 

[[70521]]

Has anyone used egg white for antifouling their prop?

Nope, Why do you think egg white would adhere to a metallic surface spinning at 500 rpm for more than eight nanoseconds in a salt water solution?

 

[smithy]

I tried it one year, judge for yourself how well it worked.

 

[sgr143]

In this application, as in many others, eggs are easily beaten.

 

[Fimacca]

They use udder cream on the elbe as anti-foul. who knows.......?

 

[Malish]

They use udder cream on the elbe as anti-foul. who knows.......?

but that is a formulation with at least one ingredient in that is not good for aquatic life... can't so easily say the same about an egg

 

[MoodySabre]

I wouldn’t shell out for it.

 

[oldgit]

Surely this some sort of a yoke ?

 

[Moodysailor]

If you want to try that, crack on......

 

[johnalison]

I wonder where he poached the idea from?

 

[Clancy Moped]

Which came first the egg or the prop...

 

[WoodyP]

Come on, don't chicken out now.

 

[geem]

I think if you try that you will get egg on your face

 

[Praxinoscope]

They use udder cream on the elbe as anti-foul. who knows.......?

A few owners do this in our harbour, not seen any evidence that it works for more than a few days.

 

[WoodyP]

A few owners do this in our harbour, not seen any evidence that it works for more than a few days.

But it leaves your hands nice and soft.

 

[Praxinoscope]

But it leaves your hands nice and soft.

SWMBO was complaining about her finger nails splitting, I suggested she tried 'hoof oil', immediate reaction was not good, but eventually she tried it, cured the problem within days.