Dave Brown wrote:
No doubt this has been discussed before, but let's see if we can get a
little more boat action going in here and see what may be new on this
topic.

I received an e-mail this morning from someone asking how to deter
rodents from nesting in their boat over the winter. The winter of
2006/2007 was a particularly bad year in our region and yet last winter,
we didn't have a single occurrence in any of the 200+ boats we store.

There are common remedies like dryer sheets and moth balls, but I have
seen infestations with both of these used. Plus, the smell never goes
away for either (not to mention the health effect the moth balls can
have on humans).

Last year I went with rodent baits hoping that if they were going to get
in, they'd at least be killed before the upholstery was trashed and
carpet urine soaked. Of course, having one of the little buggers die
inside an inaccessible panel wouldn't be pleasant either.

Thoughts? Ideas?




Shrinkwrap?

I pull all the upholstery out of my Parker before having it wrapped. So
far, knock on fiberglass, no rodents. Perhaps the problem isn't too bad
around here because we have lots of predatory birds that don't go south
for the winter. We've got a corn field not too far away, but I've never
seen a mouse or a rat in it...there are plenty of hawks and owls in the
nearby trees and barns, and none of them are thin.