On May 16, 2:44*am, Steve Cramer wrote:
And once you get it clean, leave the cover off until it's dry.

Steve

Put it on the roof of your car rightside up, dump about 5 gallons of
water and some biodegradable soap in it, put the spray cover over the
cockpit, and drive it around for a week or so*. Then go to a carwash,
dump it out, and rinse it with the high-pressure spray (don't blow
your padding and bracing off).

If that fails, put a car freshener inside. :-)

--riverman

*Not TOO much water....it will affect your car's handling in corners
and braking. Experiment first.

In a previous article, riverman said:
water and some biodegradable soap in it, put the spray cover over the
cockpit, and drive it around for a week or so*. Then go to a carwash,

I'm supposed to go a week without paddling? I've got a race in three
weeks!

--
Paul Tomblin http://blog.xcski.com/
With M$, as far as I'm aware, the stupidity comes bundled with the software.
-- Meg Thornton

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.