StoneRoad2013's photos with the keyword: tube worm

Close up of the rudder, propeller and under the hull. The anti-fouling has worked quite well on the wooden hull, but the metal work has accumulated a few items of marine growth - mainly barnacles, mussels and some tube worm. The sacrificial anode has all but disappeared ... so it has done it's job.

Closer view of the bows, much of what you can see is "slime" - apart from the clumps of "tube worm" on the keel. This animal is normally something of a pest at Whitehaven for boats - or pontoons - that stay afloat for long periods. However, I think that these may have died after the water went brown in November last year.