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southace
southace
SA
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southace southace
SA, 4803 posts
8 Feb 2013 10:18pm
Ok what's with the clicking noise you can hear from inside your hull in various places in harbours and marinas?? My conclusion is that it is electrolysis as it seems louder when I'm near steel boats. Some say its prawns or shrimps clicking on the hull, any thoughts? Answers?
cisco
cisco
QLD
12365 posts
cisco cisco
QLD, 12365 posts
8 Feb 2013 10:17pm
It is a special teredo worm that only attacks fibreglass yachts.
southace
southace
SA
4803 posts
southace southace
SA, 4803 posts
8 Feb 2013 11:01pm
Righto I have heard that one before!
badinfluence
badinfluence
QLD
538 posts
badinfluence badinfluence
QLD, 538 posts
8 Feb 2013 10:33pm
bream nibbling on your barnacles
southace
southace
SA
4803 posts
southace southace
SA, 4803 posts
8 Feb 2013 11:14pm
badinfluence said...
bream nibbling on your barnacles


I have not seen good bream in marinas or estuarys for many years!
badinfluence
badinfluence
QLD
538 posts
badinfluence badinfluence
QLD, 538 posts
8 Feb 2013 11:10pm
southace said...
badinfluence said...
bream nibbling on your barnacles


I have not seen good bream in marinas or estuarys for many years!


oodles here....and they're huge...and vicious
Ramona
Ramona
NSW
7757 posts
Ramona Ramona
NSW, 7757 posts
9 Feb 2013 8:41am
Snapping shrimp is the term. Its small shrimp with claws that they snap shut that they use for communication. Sound travels easier and 5 times faster in water and passes through steel boats easier than most.
hangtime
hangtime
NSW
397 posts
hangtime hangtime
NSW, 397 posts
9 Feb 2013 11:52am
Found an Irish toredo worm dead inside a ferro boat once!
LooseChange
LooseChange
NSW
2140 posts
LooseChange LooseChange
NSW, 2140 posts
9 Feb 2013 3:25pm
As long as it was dead then surely no more damage could be done
Damn Irish ...... they'll eat anything
badinfluence
badinfluence
QLD
538 posts
badinfluence badinfluence
QLD, 538 posts
9 Feb 2013 4:04pm
hangtime said...
Found an Irish toredo worm dead inside a ferro boat once!



How did you know it was Irish? Was it the Guinness it suicided on?
LooseChange
LooseChange
NSW
2140 posts
LooseChange LooseChange
NSW, 2140 posts
9 Feb 2013 5:12pm
Guinness is black death, it could be used as an anti fouling except the EPA would probably ban it as a hazardous substance.
MorningBird
MorningBird
NSW
2711 posts
MorningBird MorningBird
NSW, 2711 posts
9 Feb 2013 8:05pm
I'm off to Ireland in June for a month. Guiness from the factory in Dublin is on the todo list.
Scotland for another month, Scotch time.
A month then in England for some local bitters.
Don't know what the missues will be doing!
The clicking under the boat, very common in Broken Bay, snapping shrimp as Ramona said.
badinfluence
badinfluence
QLD
538 posts
badinfluence badinfluence
QLD, 538 posts
9 Feb 2013 9:25pm
LooseChange said...
Guinness is black death, it could be used as an anti fouling except the EPA would probably ban it as a hazardous substance.


you can't be talking about the Guinness like that!!!!!! Since giving up drinking 20 months ago, it's the only alcohol I miss. Okay, and port
Charriot
Charriot
QLD
880 posts
Charriot Charriot
QLD, 880 posts
9 Feb 2013 10:22pm
Aren't you lucky, just clicking noise.
I remember, sledgehammer whole night.
2000 tons cargo ship on anchor and icy pieces in the river current.
or -15 you touch anything on the boat, you rip off you skin.
/your finger instantly freeze to the metal/
cisco
cisco
QLD
12365 posts
cisco cisco
QLD, 12365 posts
10 Feb 2013 12:34am
LooseChange said...
Guinness is black death, it could be used as an anti fouling except the EPA would probably ban it as a hazardous substance.


Get under the house will ya?
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