Prop Painted for Mediterranean in 04/2015. Unpainted prop on the Mediterranean would foul like there's no tomorrow. In the Baltic Sea it is not common to paint the prop as there is much less growth...
Paint removed and almost done with the polishing. It was a PITA to get all the paint off. Prop had some corrosion hiding under the paint, not too bad though, for a 10 year old prop.
Started the winch maintenance, used lamp oil+brush for the cleaning. 3/6 done. The smallest, 46.2 were easy to do, 48.2's were bit more complicated, but with help from the exploded view -drawing it was easy to put them back together. The 60.2's should be bit more complicated but as said, just need to follow the drawings...
Winches were in relatively good shape, I though they had almost no friction before the cleaning. I was wrong. The cleaned and newly greased/oiled winch was considerably more light to turn. They had a tad too much grease on them, now I only applied a very thin film of Harken Winch Grease with a small paint brush and Harken Pawl Oil to the Pawls.
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