Above, what propeller blades look like after they've been "parked" for ten months. Olly
Monday 23 November 2009
Propeller cleaning
Today we started cleaning the Africa Mercy's two propellers. Each one has four blades; each blade is about 7 feet long and the bottom of the lowest blade is about 18 feet below sea level - just a couple of feet above the silt of the harbour. Visibility was the best I've seen for ages, and the sun shone through the water onto the multicoloured fish that hung around waiting for food. After 85 minutes of hard work with scrapers we'd managed to clean 3 blades sufficiently; if they remained uncleaned the covering of barnacles would create more drag as we sailed, and reduce our fuel efficiency. More tomorrow and Wednesday mornings! Olly
Above, what propeller blades look like after they've been "parked" for ten months. Olly
Above, what propeller blades look like after they've been "parked" for ten months. Olly
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Thank you for providing such a piece of essential information about The Propeller Cleaning, This is very helpful and essential for our daily life, just like House cleaning, The House Cleaning is also important in our daily life to make us healthy,
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