Rope Cutters How Much

lanerboy

lanerboy

Well-Known Member
Joined
15 Aug 2012
Messages
1,663
Location
burton on trent, boat in weymouth
Visit site
Well my new boat is being delivered next week and whilst it is on the hard I am thinking about getting some rope cutters fitted to the shafts.

Can anyone tell me a ball part figure of how much this would cost and what is involved in the job

cheers
 
There are many types of cutter.

What type of boat and what cruising speed?

There are many cutters that are high drag (ie waste fuel) and cutters with blades that are fixed on the shaft in the same place ahead of a prop on higher speed boats often also cause prop cavitation.

With some think of 0.5 to one knot of drag.

I use and am a fan of Quikcutter by H4 marine of this parish.

They need machining to fit but are low drag and no cavitation.
 
Last edited:
lanerboy said:
Boat is a S42 on shafts with Tam 75 engines

I had something like this on my old boat that was already fitted when I purchased it

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Stripper-...715?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item43cd59d673
Click to expand...

That is the thing to have - bigger size obviously. For details see www.ropestripper.com Relatively straightforward job to fit as no machining required except for drilling and tapping for fastenings in the P bracket. Give them a call and they will spec it up for you and suggest a fitter if you don't want to do it yourself.
 
Quikutters require a composite spool to fit around the shaft bolted in to and glued to props the same diameter as the boss, then a fixed blade fixed to the P bracket runs over the spool.

The gross sectional area from a drag point of view is about 15mm x 15mm an shaped off.
 
I had them fitted to a new boat in 2004. Something like £2k. There was no appreciable fuel burn/drag, but they never seemed to do any good, and then they became a nuisance so I removed them. I have never fitted them since and don't intend to
 
Crab pots, netting and floating rope are a real problem in the Channel Islands, French coast and I assume south coast UK as all fairly shallow water.

Where I cruise, CI , Brittany and Normandy, I would not be without them.

I have had Stripper, Spurs and now Quickutter. I was always concerned with the drag of the first two and the blade wear which is why I changed to Quickutter.

The boat needs to be out of the water to fit all of them.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Share this page

Top