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From: Charles Monroe (no email)
Date: Sun Sep 28 2003 - 07:00:57 EDT
For Alex and All.
My reply to your questions are comments preceded by " ** "
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alex Hirsekorn" <>
To: "Trawler World List" <>
Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2003 11:16 AM
Subject: TWL: Re: Cayenne Pepper Follow Up
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Charles Monroe" <>
> [snip]
>
> > Ebb Tide was hauled Wednesday for winter storage at Solomons and its
>> bottom was as smooth as a baby's butt. I mean there was no growth at all
> >with it being continuously in Chesapeake waters for two seasons! In May
> >2002, on its last haul out, I mixed ground cayenne pepper with the Petit
> >Ultima SR bottom paint at the ratio of half pound pepper to each gallon.
> > [snip]
>
> 1. When you say "no growth" does that mean neither plant nor animal?
** Neither plant nor animal except as noted below.
.
> 2. Did you have any in-water scrubbing done? If so how often and what
> did the diver report?
**There was never any in-water scrubbing or diver effort expended on
any part of the underwater portion of the hull..
> 3. Pardon my ignorance, but is Petit Ultima SR an ablative or hard
> bottom paint?
** Petit Ultima SR is an ablative bottom paint.
>
> 4. Did you notice any "proximity" effects on your running gear (i.e.
> was there less growth on the running gear closest to the cayenne)?
** The "proximity" effect was just the opposite. Barnacles had
migrated from the bronze shaft bearing onto the hull about one inch. I
would guess that in a year or so more they would have migrated futher.
Interestingly the bronze thruhulls for engine cooling had some barnacles on
them. Maybe the metal had a countering effect on the peppered paint.
>
> 5. Cayenne can be a serious irritant. Did you take any special
> precautions while mixing or applying your brew?
** As you know there is a special god that at times takes care of
the innocent and ignorant. I took no special precautions other than to let
the yard do the mixing and painting. That was so because I had a little
sholder problem then and wasn't up to laying on paint otherwise I would have
done it myself. I had no real concerns about the pepper as I'm the type who
likes the red hot sauce on much of my food but am aware of its sting. At
that time there was in the yard quite a bit of snickering and comments like
"I never heard of that" when the job was being done and several "I'll be
damned" and "Maybe I'll try that" last week when the same men looked at Ebb
Tide's bottom. Oh, vindication is lovely.
Incidentally in 1997 after initial purchase of my boat I did a
extensive blister repair job on the boat using coal tar epoxy as a barrier
coat. I put on three coats of that nasty stuff followed by three coats of
a Woolsey abalative bottom paint prior to launch in May 1998. To date the
hull, at least to my weak prejudiced eyes, there is no reoccurence of
blistering to be seen even though the boat has been constantly in
Cheseapeake waters except for two haulouts since then. One haul out of a
few hours duration was to attend to a seacock problem and the other of
several days for the peppered bottom job. On the haulout in May 2002 the
bottom was not too badly fouled to begin with which leads me to wonder if
coal tar epoxy may not also be a inhibitor of marine growth.
I say again "It worked for me."
Now does anyone have a surefire solution to curtail marine growth on
metal underwater surfaces?
Charles Monroe
Ebb Tide, 34' 1979 Marine Trader DC
Point Patience Marina, Solomons, MD
"In the worship of security we fling ourselves beneath the wheels
of routine--and before we know it our lives are gone."
- Sterling Hayden, Wanderer
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