Friday, September 21, 2012

WHAT WORKS: Plastic bag on the prop.


Once again I was away from the BIANKA for an extended period of time. One month or so. I wanted to avoid the marine growth on the prop the boat experienced earlier this summer as you can see below:


So this time I decided to do an experiment of something I had heard about from other sailors. Before I left the boat I covered the prop with a plastic bag. One of those that you get when you buy something in supermarkets etc... I tied it around the prop and came back a month later and it looked like this:


I dove under the boat just using my snorkel and quickly removed the bag from the prop:



I must say it worked pretty good  in keeping the prop clean of the major marine growth and only had a barnacle or two on the blades:


So if you are going to away for an extended time covering the prop with a plastic bag does work pretty good in keeping marine growth off the prop.

2 comments:

Ben said...

A Handy Idea.Thanks

Capt. Mike said...

Yes, the plastic bag over the prop worked pretty good if you know the boat is not going anywhere for a while.