On Tue, 17 May 2005 13:08:41 -0400, DSK wrote:

John H wrote:
Normally I'm just taking off salt spray.

Plain ol' fresh water won't do that?

... Keeping the boat in a boatel does away
with most of the poop problems

Really? Don't they allow spiders into the boat stacks?


If the walking area gets grease marks, I might just put a little on full
strength, brush it around, let it set a few minutes, then brush it off with
water. It is, as you said, great stuff. I discovered it when cleaning my
motorcycle years ago. I've only recently started using it on the boat.

I like it because it doesn't damage silicone or rubber parts like bleach
does... I'd prefer to not keep any bleach... or other potentially
dangerous cleaning agents and/or solvents... on the boat.

I found out the hard way that the citrus based degreasers eat away lots
of different parts. DON'T use that stuff on anything with any rubber or
plastic parts! It sounds nice & natural but it's corrosive as h###.

Fair Skies
Doug King

The boat gets scum from the surface of the water also. Remember, the Ches Bay
isn't the pristine place it was back in the days of John Smith.

I honestly don't know if I've ever had any spider **** on the boat. During the
summer, the boat is seldom on the rack for more than three or four days at a
time, so spiders don't get 'attached' too much.

I didn't know about the citrus degreaser problems. Thanks for the info. I do
keep a quart bottle of a oxalic acid mixture for the times when the hull gets
too brown (tannin, I think) for me to stand. I use a little spray bottle to
spray it on the stains, rinse it off, and the stains are gone.
--
John H

"All decisions are the result of binary thinking."