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Created by southace > 9 months ago, 8 Feb 2013
southace
SA, 4803 posts
8 Feb 2013 10:18PM
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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
QLD, 12365 posts
8 Feb 2013 10:17PM
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It is a special teredo worm that only attacks fibreglass yachts.

southace
SA, 4803 posts
8 Feb 2013 11:01PM
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Righto I have heard that one before!

badinfluence
QLD, 538 posts
8 Feb 2013 10:33PM
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bream nibbling on your barnacles

southace
SA, 4803 posts
8 Feb 2013 11:14PM
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badinfluence said...
bream nibbling on your barnacles


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

badinfluence
QLD, 538 posts
8 Feb 2013 11:10PM
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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
NSW, 7758 posts
9 Feb 2013 8:41AM
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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
NSW, 397 posts
9 Feb 2013 11:52AM
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Found an Irish toredo worm dead inside a ferro boat once!

LooseChange
NSW, 2140 posts
9 Feb 2013 3:25PM
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As long as it was dead then surely no more damage could be done
Damn Irish ...... they'll eat anything

badinfluence
QLD, 538 posts
9 Feb 2013 4:04PM
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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
NSW, 2140 posts
9 Feb 2013 5:12PM
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Guinness is black death, it could be used as an anti fouling except the EPA would probably ban it as a hazardous substance.

MorningBird
NSW, 2711 posts
9 Feb 2013 8:05PM
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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
QLD, 538 posts
9 Feb 2013 9:25PM
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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
QLD, 880 posts
9 Feb 2013 10:22PM
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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
QLD, 12365 posts
10 Feb 2013 12:34AM
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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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