We're having some problems with damp seeping in. Both the v-berth and
the aft cabin have wood bins on the sides for storage...these are open
and about 9 inches deep. That's where we store our clothes. The hull
side and bottoms are carpeted with the same fabric as the the liner, a
sort of nubbly burlappy material but more closely woven. It seems the
clothes on the bottom are always damp. I've been rotating them so they
won't mildew but that's getting tedious. Also have damp problems where
the cushions meet the hull walls in the berths. Got some roll out thick
paper stuff from West Marine but as soon as it gets damp, the sheets
start picking up moisture again. I've taken to running fans all the time
to keep air circulating and am cutting back on boiling anything or
running the heater excessively when it's raining so humidity doesn't
build up. I've got 3M window plastic over the ports and the vents are
all open and drawing. Thought of using DampRid, but since NC is in a
permanent state of humid, we'd be going through one of those every other
day. Any suggestions on how to keep damp and mildew from forming (except
stopping breathing processes)?

If you are connected to dockside power, you might look for a small
dehumidifier.

pirate wrote:
If you are connected to dockside power, you might look for a small
dehumidifier.

Was wondering about that since we don't have the [roblem in the summer
with the AC going...thanks...

On Sun, 04 Jan 2009 12:03:01 -0500, katy
wrote:

pirate wrote:
If you are connected to dockside power, you might look for a small
dehumidifier.

Was wondering about that since we don't have the [roblem in the summer
with the AC going...thanks...

some of the people here in Phuket run air conditioners all the time,
whether they are at the boat or not, for just the reason you state.
Cheers,

Bruce
(bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)

"Bruce In Bangkok" wrote in message
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On Sun, 04 Jan 2009 12:03:01 -0500, katy
wrote:

pirate wrote:
If you are connected to dockside power, you might look for a small
dehumidifier.

Was wondering about that since we don't have the [roblem in the summer
with the AC going...thanks...

some of the people here in Phuket run air conditioners all the time,
whether they are at the boat or not, for just the reason you state.
Cheers,

Bruce
(bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)

That's so disgusting and you dock rats don't mind the noise? You must be
deaf as well as stupid.

Lubbers! What's the use of having a boat if you can't abide the ambient
conditions. So you tie up to a dock and plug into the grid. That's not
boating, dude. Buy yourself a house ashore and stop pretending to be a
boater.

Wilbur Hubbard

katy wrote in news:4960bb50$0$1267
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We're having some problems with damp seeping in. Both the v-berth and
the aft cabin have wood bins on the sides for storage...these are open
and about 9 inches deep. That's where we store our clothes. The hull
side and bottoms are carpeted with the same fabric as the the liner, a
sort of nubbly burlappy material but more closely woven. It seems the
clothes on the bottom are always damp. I've been rotating them so they
won't mildew but that's getting tedious. Also have damp problems where
the cushions meet the hull walls in the berths. Got some roll out
thick
paper stuff from West Marine but as soon as it gets damp, the sheets
start picking up moisture again. I've taken to running fans all the
time
to keep air circulating and am cutting back on boiling anything or
running the heater excessively when it's raining so humidity doesn't
build up. I've got 3M window plastic over the ports and the vents are
all open and drawing. Thought of using DampRid, but since NC is in a
permanent state of humid, we'd be going through one of those every
other
day. Any suggestions on how to keep damp and mildew from forming
(except
stopping breathing processes)?


Set a glass full of iced tea on the table. Try to stop it from
condensing the horrible humidiity in a boat and wetting the table.

Your hull is doing exactly what the glass of iced tea is doing on a
grander scale. The hull is cold, like the glass. It's a great
"dehumidifier", which is your solution to the problem.

Buy a small dehumidifier, the one that's a little self-contained air
conditioner that runs off 115VAC. Be SURE the one you buy has a DRAIN
HOSE you can drop in the sink so you won't have to manually dump the
tank, which will fill up in a matter of a few hours on a damp boat.

Close the boat so the dehumidifier can pump all the water out of the
swamp air inside the boat. If anything is left open, new swamp air that
you are now letting into the boat (sea air in the tourist brochures)
will never let it pump the boat dry and stop the condensation.

If you think the boat is too hot with a dehumidifier, install an air
conditioner, which will both dehumidify the boat and pump the heat
outside.

Leave the AC run all summer and the dehumidifier running all winter to
keep the boat dried out. Your problem goes away as soon as the air
inside the boat is DRY, not like a North Carolina swamp.

The other crap from West Marine is just that, crap. Damprid will work
inside a plastic bag.....but not in an open boat. It's made to sell.

You will simply be amazed at the CONSTANT stream of water that comes out
of that condensate drain hose of the little dehumidifier. 20 gallons a
day isn't unusual. The whole boat will smell lots better, once the
mildew and bacteria growing from the swamp air loses its water source
and they die.

Larry wrote:


Buy a small dehumidifier, the one that's a little self-contained air
conditioner that runs off 115VAC. Be SURE the one you buy has a DRAIN
HOSE you can drop in the sink so you won't have to manually dump the
tank, which will fill up in a matter of a few hours on a damp boat.

Close the boat so the dehumidifier can pump all the water out of the
swamp air inside the boat. If anything is left open, new swamp air that
you are now letting into the boat (sea air in the tourist brochures)
will never let it pump the boat dry and stop the condensation.

If you think the boat is too hot with a dehumidifier, install an air
conditioner, which will both dehumidify the boat and pump the heat
outside.

Leave the AC run all summer and the dehumidifier running all winter to
keep the boat dried out. Your problem goes away as soon as the air
inside the boat is DRY, not like a North Carolina swamp.

The other crap from West Marine is just that, crap. Damprid will work
inside a plastic bag.....but not in an open boat. It's made to sell.

You will simply be amazed at the CONSTANT stream of water that comes out
of that condensate drain hose of the little dehumidifier. 20 gallons a
day isn't unusual. The whole boat will smell lots better, once the
mildew and bacteria growing from the swamp air loses its water source
and they die.

Thanks....I was almost getting ready to run the AC with the heater in
desperation...on way to Lowe's now to see what they have in stock...

katy wrote in news:4960d9e3$0$1357
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Thanks....I was almost getting ready to run the AC with the heater in
desperation...on way to Lowe's now to see what they have in stock...


If you are in a marina with no metered power....why not? That will cause
the AC to run and dehumidify the house. Commercial air conditioning
systems have heating elements in them to do just what you were
thinking....making the AC run to pump out the water.

I used to work in a shipboard calibration lab where the temperature was 72F
+/- .2 degrees. The humidity control to hold humidity to 50%, eliminating
the problems associated with static electricity, was steam heating
radiators built into the 25 ton air conditioning system. When the humidity
sensors said it was too moist, the steam came on, heating up the air
conditioner's output and making it run longer to keep up. This dried out
the air and shut the steam back off.

Of course, you'll want to make sure you have sufficient amperes to run them
both. Leave the heater on 1000 watts and turn the thermostat to way above
the normal setting. Run the AC and it'll pump out the heat and water.
Problem solved. The humidifier is the slicker way to do it. The hot
condensor heat the AC pumps overboard is simply reheating the cold air
coming out of the evaporator on a dehumidifier. Dehumidifiers heat the air
because you're adding the power of running its machinery and fan into the
net-neutral heat of evaporator and condensor.

I'm watching a mother laying dead on a stretcher next to her two dead
children as her husband screams in horror over the three corpses as the
United States/Iwraeli genocide continues. The USA blocked the UN from
condemning Israeli genocide this morning.

Damn them all....Damn US.

Damn the British Government for 1948.

Larry wrote:

I'm watching a mother laying dead on a stretcher next to her two dead
children as her husband screams in horror over the three corpses as the
United States/Iwraeli genocide continues.

I saw the aftermath of a Hamas rocket hitting a kindergarden the other
day,,,, how about damning that...twit

Martin

Marty wrote in
news
I saw the aftermath of a Hamas rocket hitting a kindergarden the other
day,,,, how about damning that...twit

Martin



So, if your neighbor murders your son, it's ok for you to kill them all?

That's not what the cops say where I live. It's NOT OK for me to kill off
the neighbors if they kill someone of mine. I'll certainly want to, but we
are a society of laws. We don't just start banging away on the neighbors
with our M-16s trying to see how many we can kill. That leads to anarchy
and everyone dies.

Why is murder OK when it's done by Zionists? I've wondered that for years.