Alternatives to propspeed.

[Paperbird]

I'm in the rustoleum zinc spray paint camp. Current coat is about 2 yrs old. Still clean. We've been in the Bahamas the last couple months and i really didn't expect such good results. Be sure to put several (5-8) thin coats on.


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[sailorboy1]

Originally Posted by Paperbird

I'm in the rustoleum zinc spray paint camp. Current coat is about 2 yrs old. Still clean. We've been in the Bahamas the last couple months and i really didn't expect such good results. Be sure to put several (5-8) thin coats on.


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I used the Pettit spray for 2 years with good results. But last year the store was out and I couldn't wait and used a standard zinc spray paint, the barnacles LOVED it!

[colemj]

Originally Posted by micknor51

As for myself I recently applied Velox Plus to the prop and shaft.

Huh. I put that on toast.

Mark

[a64pilot]

Going with the Vegemite idea, some US replacements would be "American cheese" you know that stuff put on fast food hamburgers. Has noting at all to do with anything animal or vegetable, made from some kind of oil apparently. Also called "Cheese Food", who knew you had to feed cheese?
Or how about margarine? I've honestly left both outside as an experiment, insects bothered neither, I guess they don't recognize them as food?


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[micknor51]

Mark colemj your a true gourmet, do you also add jam/jelly to the toast?
I still think the Velox Plus is better on the prop.
Michael

[colemj]

Originally Posted by a64pilot

Going with the Vegemite idea, some US replacements would be "American cheese" you know that stuff put on fast food hamburgers. Has noting at all to do with anything animal or vegetable, made from some kind of oil apparently. Also called "Cheese Food", who knew you had to feed cheese?
Or how about margarine? I've honestly left both outside as an experiment, insects bothered neither, I guess they don't recognize them as food?

Actually, that is "processed cheese food".

In the US, you probably can't beat Velveeta, Fluff and whatever they put inside Twinkies (a mixture of Velveeta and Fluff?) for antifouling. I know my bowels stop dead with them!

Mark

[IdoraKeeper]

I used Vegemite to lube coolant hose. Never considered using it on my shaft. The stuff is truly versatile. What will they think of next?

[AnchorageGuy]

I've not known anyone that has had much success with PropSpeed, including myself. We had a "certified" yard apply it and most of it pealed and the rest fouled. It took me forever to get a refund from the manufacturer and got nothing from the yard. Chuck

[Jim Cate]

Originally Posted by AnchorageGuy

I've not known anyone that has had much success with PropSpeed, including myself. We had a "certified" yard apply it and most of it pealed and the rest fouled. It took me forever to get a refund from the manufacturer and got nothing from the yard. Chuck

Well, of course you don't know me, but I have successfully used it twice, and each time it has been good for two years. I applied it myself the second time and neither time did it peel. By the end of the second year the "rubbery" nature of the finish was mostly gone, but what growth did occur came off easily with a wipe.

Good stuff IMO.

Jim

[libanori]

Originally Posted by El Pinguino

Is that a Brazilian product?

Sex wax is a brand of surf was produced in the USA and exported to many other countries. I hope your question was not a kind of pejorative comment on either Brazilian people or culture.

[El Pinguino]

Originally Posted by libanori

Sex wax is a brand of surf was produced in the USA and exported to many other countries. I hope your question was not a kind of pejorative comment on either Brazilian people or culture.

Pejorative? Best you ask these people... https://www.liveabout.com/the-brazil...ook-one-346383

[Tornadosailing]

I used Prop Speed, and it lasted exactly one year. I hauled out at the end of December and used Pettit prop coat barnacle barrier, then topped that with a couple of heavy coats of Prop Armor. We'll see how it goes, but it can't be any worse, and was a whole lot cheaper. I like the surf wax idea. If this doesn't pan out, I'll give that a shot. At least I won't have to haul out for that.

[El Pinguino]

Applied PropSpeed in 2015... same month this thread started.... since then maybe 10000 miles of which about 2500 would have been motoring..... still in good condition....

[sailorboy1]

I’ve been using Barnacle Buster. Just hauled after 34 months. Still some left on the prop hub and the inner part of blades, all seems gone from shaft.

Not a single barnacle on the drive shaft system. For the $34 I’m going to use it again.

[micknor51]

After using the Velox Plus which gave an exceedingly poor result I have bitten the bullet and reverted to Propspeed. It is the the only thing thing that works in our water conditions on Lake Macquarie, NSW. A friend also used Velox Plus on his prop and was similarly unimpressed. He’s a Propspeed man now also.
Have also used another product in the past called PellerClean. That wasn’t much chop either.
I still haven’t tried sex with the prop yet, too dodgy for my liking.
A clean prop is a good prop, a barnacled one just isn’t!!