"katy" wrote in message
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When we were still in Michigan, even using a copper based bottom paint
(VC 17) and having a bronze prop, we still had a few zebra mussels at the
end of wach season...and I do not believe there are barnacles in fresh
watr so you don't have to worry about that at all...Now we hire a diver to
dive down and scrape several times a year...the Neuse is a dirty old
river, fill of things like physteria (sp) from all the hog farming
upriver...not going to get in there if it's not an emergency...

You are not even safe in a lake it would seem.On our news today there is a
story about six people dying in USA because of some amoeba that gets up your
nose while you swim and theneats away at your brain. Unfortunately they did
not say which lake it was-or if other lakes carry this pest.