SHOULD I PAINT MY PROPELLERS?

[coromar]

I have a Corvette 32 with shaft drive on two 250hp engines. My max speed is 25kts, but we usually cruise at 8kts.

Should I paint my props and shafts or just polish them?

MBM say polish and PBO says paint them !!!

Any ideas welcome

Best wishes,

Paul

 

[npf1]

I'll be antifouling mine next time. In the last three years I've tried lanolin, lanolin applied with heat and mirror polishing the prop, all of which have not stopped growth.

 

[mortehoe]

No. Bake them in the oven at 140C for 30 minutes.

after you've burnished them and Lanocote'd them.

Repeat twice each season before launching for 3 years. After 3 years only one slight burinishing and one coat of baked lLanocote is required.

My 13 x 12 prop has been barnacle/slime free for the past 7 years /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[catmandoo]

Re: No. Bake them in the oven at 140C for 30 minutes.

Stretch a condom over each blade . easily replaced . Choose the flavour .

Curry flavour seems to work best !!

 

[mortehoe]

somebody has already done that ...

and it's claimed that it works, but it was inner tube. (From Memory: Cruising World, June or July 2002)

 

[Mudisox]

Re: somebody has already done that ...

It does work and it is cheaper to get packs of 3 so they say!

 

[rusland]

I had heavy fouling of prop and shaft last year in west of Scotland. I found product manufactured in New Zealand called PropSpeed. Have applied it - but cant say more until end of season.

 

[Slowtack]

Anybody know the name of colourless spray-on antifoul for props?

 

[Glyka]

I don't know if it works with your shaft RPM but on rugboats VELOX makes miracles.