mattkab
Senior Member
I got PADI scuba certified years ago when I lived in Hawaii. Since moving to the Pacific Northwest, I haven't done any diving locally. But since we have a boat now with enough storage, I decided to part out a set of gear through craigslist, facebook, and local dive shops.
Last weekend I dove our boat for the first time. The hull, through-hulls, and bow thruster was clean and relatively growth free... but our running gear was horribly overgrown with barnacles and mussels. I spent about 20 minutes knocking most of them off.
I suspect I'll need to dive once or twice more this year to keep them clean, but the good news is all the gear I purchased and serviced this winter worked out great.
Video:
Prop cleaning - YouTube
*edit: Hmm. I can't seem to get the video to embed -- it just links. Oh well *
Last weekend I dove our boat for the first time. The hull, through-hulls, and bow thruster was clean and relatively growth free... but our running gear was horribly overgrown with barnacles and mussels. I spent about 20 minutes knocking most of them off.
I suspect I'll need to dive once or twice more this year to keep them clean, but the good news is all the gear I purchased and serviced this winter worked out great.
Video:
Prop cleaning - YouTube
*edit: Hmm. I can't seem to get the video to embed -- it just links. Oh well *
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