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eric lavine 
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 Posted: September-21-2006 at 5:16pm |
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tim, were trying to attract some mermaids, if you were a mermaid wouldnt you want a nice shiney prop? or a dull used one
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behindpropeller
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Posted: September-22-2006 at 9:41am |
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Hey Eric-
My boat is shiny. The engine runs. I use it 3-4 days a week. As long as the prop does its job im not worried. Besides, all of the mermaids are attracted to the polished sky ski. Tim |
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Hollywood
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Posted: September-22-2006 at 10:15am |
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I'm gonna be a little nerdy here, but wouldn't a polished prop give you less bite in the water?
Differences are probably negligable and will cause another pylon vs. tower debate. |
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79nautique
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Posted: September-22-2006 at 10:42am |
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it propably doesn't make much difference but it would do the opposite and perform a little better and cut thru the water easier.
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JoeinNY
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Posted: September-22-2006 at 10:42am |
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Well if were gettin nerdy,
Propellor "bite" is not about friction between the propellor and the water, now it is possible that a specific rough surface finish could trip a laminar boundry layer in certain conditions and make it easier for a propellor to spin up and give you a better hole shot but that would be tricky to control at best and most likely would cost you in top end efficiency. But yeah its all negligible at the speeds we are talking about.. |
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Hollywood
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Posted: September-22-2006 at 11:05am |
So this is like the waxxed hull game? |
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eric lavine
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Posted: September-22-2006 at 3:08pm |
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ya know, there is a guy in england that claims that if you paint the bottem of the boat with this paint that he invented from the water line down, he claims a gain in mph, he gaureenteed us 5 mph on a 47 foot couger diesel powered boat we ran. the only thing was he wants 30k to do it, and the the owner of the boat was considering it
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jimbo
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Posted: September-22-2006 at 3:48pm |
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Randy, did you try the CLR?
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Randy_in_Ohio
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Posted: September-24-2006 at 9:13pm |
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jimbo- I haven't tried it yet, been busy with other issues. When I get into the deep cleaning phase I will give it a try. I did take a green scratchy pad and water to it, that helped a little.
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