{"id":1252,"date":"1999-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-30T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=1252"},"modified":"2015-10-16T12:05:22","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T17:05:22","slug":"prop-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/prop-painting\/","title":{"rendered":"Prop Painting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"question\">\n<p class=\"Body\">Hi! My dealer and I are having this contest, you know the kind \ud83d\ude09 about painting the prop shaft and prop. He&#8217;s already done it, and insists it&#8217;s &quot;always done that way.&quot; I say no. I want the paint removed. The vessel is a 2000 Hunter Passage 450, the prop is an Autoprop. The Autoprop dealer (A&amp;B Marine) recommends not painting but using their &quot;Anti-Fouling Goop,&quot; a greasy lanolin compound. I have had to scrape the barnacles off the prop personally, so I know that bottom paint does not retard marine growth here in SW Florida. The Goop &quot;seems&quot; to work. It&#8217;s not been tried on a clean prop over an entire season. Comments? I love the books, videos, CDs and am amazed with MaxSea, especially the weather routing. Keep sailing! Errrr&#8230;&#8230; Boating!!!!!! Regards, Drew D<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"answer\">\n<p class=\"Body\">Hi Drew: I have tested many paint systems on props over the years and not found one that works. In fact, some of the paint usually falls off in a short time leaving a rough, inefficient finish on the prop. So, I agree with you, take it off. I&#8217;d love to know more about your &quot;goop&quot;, what it is, and how it works. Steve <\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" align=\"center\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi! My dealer and I are having this contest, you know the kind \ud83d\ude09 about painting the prop shaft and <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/prop-painting\/\">&#8230;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-talk","category-yacht-propellor-faqs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35976,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252\/revisions\/35976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}