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Marc Heusser[_2_] Marc Heusser[_2_] is offline
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"Steve Lusardi" wrote:

I have heard that cayenne pepper powder (the really hot stuff) mixed with
paint is a great help with barnacles. I assume this is used with ablative
paint, but have no personnal knowledge myself if this is true. Has anyone
else tried this?
Steve


No personal experience, but maybe the following link might help:
http://www.rya.org.uk/KnowledgeBase/...ntifouling.htm
Not unnecessarily polluting the oceans seems to be a good idea to me.

HTH

Marc

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