Barnacles

[shinsr]

Keep my boat in the lower peconic (Flanders bay). Water temps hit 82 degrees last week. Boat ran fantastic over July 4th weekend to and from Montauk. Go to run her 12 days later and she is sluggish, only hit 2470 rpms. Pull her an both props covered in small barnacles. Bottom not bad, so clean props and pressure wash bottom. Now running strong as ever - 2680 both engines. Marina says any boat sitting over a week or 10 days is having same issue unless used propspeed. Has anyone else seen this happening? Zincs were fine by the way. Is this just the water temp or is something else contributing?

 

[JV II]

I didn't think we'd have as bad a problem in our marina this year because for the first time in the 6 years we've been here we have starfish. The starfish cleaned just about every barnacle off of the sea wall. There are no signs of them on the boat. Usually they show up on the trim tabs. I don't have outdrives this year, but they do seek those out too. I just realized for the first time, they were in the AC sea strainer. Tiny ones. Nothing on the shafts or props. So, I cleaned out the sea strainer and I'm running bromine tabs in them now.

 

[Brian77]

I was out this past Sunday and one of my friends had his scuba gear with him. I decided to take a quick dive to check out my boat. The hull was fine but my trim tabs were completely encrusted in barnacles and I also had some on the outdrives and the props. I scrapped everything clean and the boat seemed to run much better heading back.

I had been having an issue hitting the correct WOT rpm before I cleaned everything, so I'm hoping that was the problem. The bay was too crowded on Sunday to test but I'm planning on taking the boat out for a quick test ride tomorrow...fingers crossed.

 

[Dooley]

As much as I hate barnacles (like everybody else), they're sometimes the perfect excuse to get the boat out for some WOT fun!

Those suckers just LOVE our South Florida warm waters.


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[Sous]

Seem to be pervasive this year... We're infested here in the Chesapeake as well.

 

[2000SEARAY280SS]

you guys should count yourself lucky if you do not have to deal with barnacles every year as i do they suck i spend half my boat time scraping the damn things off my outdrives and props

 

[shinsr]

My last boat was out drives and this was a weekly occurrence - hadn't had an issue for past 3+ seasons though since had this boat. Guess I need to move her at least weekly to be safe.