Sailaway wrote:

The guy I sail with is looking for a good slick coating for the
folding prop on his J-109 racing sailboat. The prop appears to be made
of brass or bronze, and gets a pretty good dose of hard marine growth
during the season here in the northeast. He has the bottom cleaned
each week or just before races during the season. The bottom has some
kind of slick paint or coating on it, not like anti-fouling paint, but
the prop is bare. So far, there is only one coating that sounds good,
but requires the prop to be removed and sent to the company for
treatment. Anyone know of a treatment that can be self-applied that
would not cause a lot of friction in the water, and yet protect from
sea life?

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I have a source of teflon (tm) powder which can be added to
paints/epoxies but frankly don't know how effective it would be.


paul oman


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