Tricks for boating and odds and ends

[MacGyver]

So everyone has some little deal that they do to help do something for the boat that is a neat idea, sometimes rarely known, and sometimes well known.......
What the hell am I talking about?

Well, A sail boater was talking to me very excited about how I had gotten a sailboat and it being a CP19 he was going on about what a good choice I made for my first boat.  I told him of the cleanup and such and how the wife was mad at the mud dobbers/wasps

"Yeah" he said "I hate em, open a bar of Irish Spring and set it in a bowl near the hatch. I put a few of em around on my boat, no wasps, no mud huts."

We are going to try that in a day or so, just have to get to the store.

I told him after he showed me his wasp (paper wasp/ red wasp) sting, "Take Benedryl, works awesome"    (My wife got her first sting ever a week ago, takes the benedryl, gone in a few days.  The guys and I use it when we get stung working on boats or docks.)
Meat tenderizer works too.

So with those few said, I start this, what little tricks do you have? maybe it will help someone else out

Jason

[Tim Gardner]

For scrapes, stings and bites, we use Melaleuca Oil.  Sting is gone instantly & no swelling. 

I'm sure all of us hate the black "mildew" that grows on all the surfaces of our vessels when they are unattended to.
It's like someone threw dirt in to all the nooks and crannies.  I've been using the equivalent of "Wet & Forget" a biodegradable fungicide developed for use on houses and deck surfaces.

I put some in a trigger pump spray bottle, and after sailing, just a fine spritz over the deck surfaces keeps the black crap away.  If you want to try it - go buy some at your local hardware store; it's less than $20 a gallon.  If you like it, I'll give you the formula for homemade W&F - 10 gallons for under $20.  Better living through chemistry!

RGDS - TG