Hi Chuck,

I’m amazed at the stuff, how well it retains the antifouling paint on
the propeller. I’m another 60-odd miles down the line and it’s still on
there, effectively anti-fouled. I wonder if I’d have the same result
with just the barnacle barrier without the antifouling over it.

Tell me about transducer paint. I’ve never heard of it. Can you spray it
on an underwater transducer, like a depth sounder facing, without
harming the functionality? I have a bulbous thing on Silverheels’ bottom
that is a forward reading sonar. It came with the boat and it’s awesome.
Shows me the bottom depth ahead 50′ (or whatever I set it to) so I can
see if it’s shoaling. That’s already sprouting tiny barnacles because
it’s unpainted.

Tor

Thanks for the info, Chuck. Wish I’d known about transducer paint a
couple of months ago. Oh, well, next time. I’ll bet if you called Pettit
and asked a tech guy there, they’d probably tell you the differences (if
any) between their tranducer paint and the barnacle barrier.

My sonar is an Interphase. It looks ancient to me – I was surprised it
even worked when I bought the boat – but it has turned out to be my
primary depth sounder. The forward scan has surely spared me a few
bumps.

That’s neat about the watermen, both the old traps retrieval program and
their fishfinder technique. I’d guess you’re talking about the
Chesapeake. Don’t believe I’ve heard the term “watermen” used anywhere
else.

Tor