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I see you're in Pasadena MD, I'm just across the river in Old Road Bay. I had my Catalina 30 pulled out this weekend for the exact same reason. Couldn't get RPM above 1000 and boat speed @ 2knts. Tons of barnacles on the prop and prop shaft. She was running a bit below hull speed 4 weeks ago, so the growth happened pretty fast.
Cleaned everything up and she's running along @ hull speed and able to get RPMs back up to 1800 no problem. Didn't go much over that as I now have a pretty good exhaust leak that needs to be repaired.
I tried diving rather than hauling out but visibility is less than 3 inches right now. They've released the Conowingo dam a good bit over the last few weeks with all the rain and the water is pretty murky.
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