Barnacle Prevention

[Ad Hoc]

capt.V

I don't have a link..but they guy you want etc is:

Prof Anthony Brennan of University of Florida, using ONR research funding. That should get you most of the way...

[capt vimes]

found a good article on it with some images of the actual surface...
http://brennan.mse.ufl.edu/Research/antifouling.html

thanks for the info!

[Ad Hoc]

Thanks for the link

[peter radclyffe]

i dont know about that
if you enclose a barnacle in cannabis resin, it will eventually relax, give in & chill out

[peter radclyffe]

Originally Posted by capt vimes

ad hoc:
you have a link to this 'sharklet'?

i know that sientisct have been trying to mimic sharkskin for centuries... it also has the advantage of reduced frictional drag...

you know that the 'glue' barnacles using to attach them to their substrat is 10 times stronger than any resin we know and use?

i dont know about that
if you enclose a barnacle in cannabis resin, it will eventually relax, give in & chill out

[Frosty]

A dead barnacle will not give up its grip, they way it attaches itself to a hull is almost a molecular bond, any one who's cleaned off a hull knows that sanding the thing right down is the only way.

It would be more beneficial to the world if we knew how they attached themselves to the hull rather than trying to keep them off it.

[brian eiland]

Originally Posted by apex1

Sounds logical..............
never seen a shark with barnacles round his head.

Sounds like another observation I heard once, "they had never seen a barnacle on one of those many floating coconuts"

[JamesG]

I emailed Bright Sparks about their electrode anti fouling system and they sent me some research. Hopefully this proves that their system works. If it does I'll probably buy one.

The problem is that the research is written in a different language. Can anybody translate this? I think it might be Dutch.

Oh and its an image so i can just copy and paste it into a translating program.

[Frosty]

Sharks never stop swimming,--ever or they drown. they also have swimming along with them cleaner fish that clean parasites from their skin and even thier teeth.

[Landlubber]

Yep Frosty, keep thge boat moving, regular washing and it will never get barnacles either, but floating coconuts do get barnacles as anyone that has cruised those water can testify to.

[Submarine Tom]

Drydock.

[masalai]

If drydock?, - why keep a boat out of water, Why have a boat, A boat is meant to be afloat else it is not doing what it was built to do, be a boat...

[Frosty]

You mean if its not floating its not a boat?

You got one of them Mass.

[Submarine Tom]

-well then, you're going to have barnacles, take your pick.

[masalai]

Frosty, that is true, it is not a boat yet it is starting to look like one... Bloody 'gurney' will discourage permanent habitat along with ablative copper and other treatment...