Log skin fitting

[ianc1200]

My Raymarine log was badly undereading, if reading at all by July last year (having been fitted new in the Spring). I took out the paddle wheel a couple of times and cleaned it without success. When we lifted the boat this what I found. The plastic fitting was painted with anti foul so what else should I do?

IanC

 

[johnalison]

I've had a Raymarine (then Raytheon) log for nine seasons and usually get very little fouling on the unit itself. I usually put a very thin smear of silicone grease on the exposed plastic and only need to wipe some gunge off occasionally. The usual trouble is late in the season when the surrounding hull gets a bit foul and creepy-crawlies tend to congregate and invade the log and slow it.

I think the answer is to give an extra coat of antifouling to the surrounding area and scrub it occasionally. On a previous boat we used to do this with a strip of carpet under the boat worked between two people on each deck. This worked fairly well.

 

[Vanilla]

Didn't that rub all the antifoul off both sides of the boat as well? Curious to know how you do it without rubbing everything away.

 

[johnalison]

It used to be quite popular - you tie a line to each end of a carpet strip and wipe it pile side in against the hull backwards & forwards. You can scrub most of the hull that way except for a bit each side of the keel, by angling the strip each way.

 

[ianc1200]

Thanks for the advice.

IanC