Fouling

[applepip]

When you anchor in freshwater after sailing at sea do the barnacles etc. die and fall off or do they just die and you have to scrape the bottom??

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[tcm]

They stay stuck and you have to scrapem off dead or otherwise.

If you could find a river of dilute hydrochloric acid, then they would be magically dissolved.

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[AndrewB]

Along with the hull. Problem solved - nice one, TCM!

Goose barnacles are such an expensive delicacy in Spain maybe it would be better to encourage them and make a bit on the side.

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[applepip]

Why do we not eat them ourselves????

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[AndrewB]

There's hardly anything to them, a little curl of soft flesh comes out the stem, its rather like picking your nose.

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[applepip]

You do that too? We see lots of people driving past our house picking thier nose!
And I thought I would miss it! I did not know we did while we sailed?

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[mocruising]

I hope we meet cruisers with such a sense of humour when we start our retirement.

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