Help in identifying growth under the boat please

[peter2407]

My boat is on a river mooring in Lymington, where normally growth is just a covering of slime. This year though is quite different - where performance was very poor at the weekend, so put her alongside on a marina and did some had scraping. What came off was a bit of a shock - lots of hard growth that when I picked up a piece looked like multiple testicles which when squeezed spat out water. Any ideas what they are please?

 

[VicS]

My boat is on a river mooring in Lymington, where normally growth is just a covering of slime. This year though is quite different - where performance was very poor at the weekend, so put her alongside on a marina and did some had scraping. What came off was a bit of a shock - lots of hard growth that when I picked up a piece looked like multiple testicles which when squeezed spat out water. Any ideas what they are please?

The common names for marine life are often what they look like

If they look like testicles then there a good chance they are called "sea testicles", or because they squirt water when squeezed perhaps "sea squirts"

 

[[70521]]

Pictures please.

 

[25931]

My boat is on a river mooring in Lymington, where normally growth is just a covering of slime. This year though is quite different - where performance was very poor at the weekend, so put her alongside on a marina and did some had scraping. What came off was a bit of a shock - lots of hard growth that when I picked up a piece looked like multiple testicles which when squeezed spat out water. Any ideas what they are please?

Sounds as though they are a type of sponge.

 

[FWB]

If they are similar to these on my non antifouled tender then they are sea squirts.

 

[pmagowan]

Sounds as though they are a type of sponge.

Your testicles must look funny!

 

[Twister_Ken]

If they are similar to these on my non antifouled tender then they are sea squirts.

Working on the sea testicles theory, presumably this pic is a load of old balls?

 

[rbmatthews]

Weekly delivery at the tradesman's entrance of the women's gender reassignment clinic?

 

[Daydream believer]

when I picked up a piece looked like multiple testicles which when squeezed spat out water.

If I were you i would stop squeezing them

 

[vyv_cox]

Sea Squirts are resistant to ultrasonic antifouling devices, which is why you have to use antifouling paint as well. Not sure whether testicles are also.

 

[pampas]

Think they are also called "Dead Mans/Men's Fingers" am I right?

 

[VicS]

Think they are also called "Dead Mans/Men's Fingers" am I right?

I think they are something different.

 

[rbmatthews]

Think they are also called "Dead Mans/Men's Fingers" am I right?

They are different. Dead Man's Fingers are a soft coral, Alcyonium digitatum, whereas sea squirts are ascidians.

 

[forelle541]

On the East coast there known as Sailors Axxxholes.