Peggie Hall wrote in message ...

I can't help you with stink #2, but a LOT of detergent and water,
followed by thorough rinsing out should get rid of the last of mouse
remains. Use a power washer (Home Depot has a dandy one--1750 psi--for
$179...and it's a very handy bit of equipment to own...I have one) to
get to those areas you can't reach by hand.

Drain and dry out the bilge...use a hand pump, shop vac, sponges,
towels--whatever it takes--to get the last of the water out.

Hi Peggy - perhaps you didn't read through my post, where I did all of
that. I also have one of those Husky/HD washers, have used it
extensively & feel it is worth another thread; it's no sub for a real
pressure washer & has a number of annoyances & serious shortcomings
which I feel nix it for any more than immitating a coin-op car wash at
home. It doesn't even wash a car very well. IME most cleaning jobs
may be accomplished by hand both faster & better than with this
washer, though it is useful for a few things. The point of my post &
problem was *inaccessible voids* - which cannot be reached by a wand &
nozzle, or even by the flexible pressure sprayer wand I used for the
detergent & bleach.

After wasting a good deal of time for a week with various methods, and
almost ready to start removing sections of liner, I solved the problem
today in an hour as follows - which may be of some help to another
with a similar situation, though it is not for the faint or heart nor
the thoughtless:

I had been using a fairly powerful plastic AC fan kludged into the fwd
hatch, capable of blowing quite a wind throughout the boat & out the
companionway. It's motor is reasonably well shielded from liquids,
though it is a cheap homeowner thing, and it has no exposed metal
parts. I carefully chose the time of the end of a warm day, with the
ambient air warmer than the now-cooling hull after dark. With every
compartment cover inside still removed, the companionway closed except
for its upper drop board, I simply filled a small sprayer with
straight Clorox, set it for high atomization, and fed it right into
the suction periphery of the fan - using not a small measure of
judgement & observation to avoid soaking the teak bulkheads & etc with
straight bleach. This entailed timing the spray atomization with
equal length breaks to permit dispersal without localized soaking.
Naturally the whole craft had been emptied long before of anything
suceptible to damage including any decorations, photos, unsealed
instruments, cushions etc. This quickly moved atomized bleach into
every space & cranny, where it immediately condensed all over the hull
interior. Wherever the remaining cukka was lodged, it was killed
quite quickly as verified by the mraked change in exhaust odor, and it
took about an hour at 60%RH for the fan to dry her back out well &
disperse most of the Cl gas.

I think the other resinous odor was simply an organic byproduct of the
fungal reactions going on adjacent to glassed areas. She smells as
sweet as a newborn baby now - for the first time in years.