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Warren and Erica return to their catamaran Boa in Fiji after eight months away, arriving at Musket Cove to find the boat needing serious work — mold, bird nests on the mainsail, and six months of bottom growth on the props.2:17 Within 48 hours of boarding, a cyclone forecast forces them to stay in Boondog Marina while they deep-clean and reorganize.1:19 The cyclone shifts north and delivers only two days of rain and some wind.8:40 During the wait, Warren repairs mainsail traveler car attachments where plastic inserts had stripped out, replacing them with threaded metal inserts — a fix he had previously done on all five cars of a prior boat.4:28 Leaving the marina, they motor 12 miles to Musket Cove with both engines showing cavitation symptoms at higher RPM, suggesting prop fouling.14:09 Underwater inspection reveals the props are clean; PropSpeed applied in New Zealand during the last haulout prevented growth entirely.17:52 The exhaust elbow fouling problem from a previous passage prompts them to run the engines at higher RPM to clear buildup.14:30 PropSpeed on props eliminates growth even after six months on the hard, making the product worth the cost over scraping.18:07

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