We have been reading comments posted on YBW about SCM and our main concern is the amount of growth and I quote a
posting from January 2012
'they do get a lot of mozzies in the summer months due to close proximity of rice fields, but local authorities have been working hard to keep them down but spraying via small planes. For me the biggest bug bear is the huge growth on our
hull. Every time I visit my
boat it needs lifting and
power washing before we can use it! It's because the marina is in the mouth of the river Ebre and the water is teaming with life, the area has been breeding mussels for many years and they migrate everywhere including your
rudder and props. It can take only a few weeks before the
boat cannot be used until lifted again!'
Another poster says 'Fouling is a problem! Although we find that the
hull its self is not to bad just a bit green at the water line, the prop gets heavily fouled to the point that my folding prop doesn’t open, I’ve struggled out to the
lagoon and then gone over the side with the scrapper. Now if I’m leaving the boat for any time I swim down and bag it.'
Has anyone else experienced this problem?