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Default My cockpit stinks!

On May 19, 4:36*pm, (Paul Tomblin) wrote:

Wash with detergent and chlorine bleach. The bleach will put and end
to the mocrobes who
are producing the gases which cause the odour. Any time you come
accross mould just
wash with a bleach solution to kill it off.

OTOH, I thought mould was all part of the kayaker's aromoatherapy
experience.
Ther's somehting to be said about the open canoe. Ventilation and
sunlight also
kill moulds.