Greg Moore
M-17 #385
The Full Monty
-----Original Message-----
From: Ted Duke <tduke@cfw.com>
To: 'WWP List-Serve' <wwpotter@tscnet.com>
Date: Thursday, September 03, 1998 10:55 AM
Subject: Re: Help! I've become a slave to my gelcoat!
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> West Wight Potter Website at URL
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>James,
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>Haven't had any spider problems YET, but sure can sympathize with you. I
had my
>P19 in the barn with a tarp draped low over it and the pigeons "had a
party"
>this winter. The doo covered the left rear quarter and was particularly
heavy
>on the OWL statue I had placed there to deter them. The stains were hard to
get
>off. They also built a nest in my chain locker. Then I parked it out in
the
>field for a week and the birds took turns dropping on it from above. So I
>figured when I took it to the lake and tied it up at a slip it would be
okay.
>Didn't have any bird problems last summer. Wrong, Purple stains galore
after 1
>week. Don't know any answer other than to scrub and swear.
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>Ted
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>Fauver, James wrote:
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>> West Wight Potter Website at URL
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>> Webgang,
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>> I know that very few of you keep your boat in the water full time, but
>> maybe someone has experience with this problem anyway.
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>> Every time I go to my boat, there are a whole bunch of new brown stains
>> on the deck. These stains, as far as I can tell, are from spiders
>> catching, consuming, and then "expelling" bugs. Each time I sail or
>> visit the boat, I painstakingly remove all the webs, kill as many as I
>> can find, then scrub the heck out of the deck. The problem is, each
>> time there are a few "new" stains that do NOT come out. At this rate,
>> in a few years, I will have one of those fancy tan (brown) decks that
>> some people pay extra for ;->
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>> Does anyone have any suggestions on:
>> 1. Keeping the spiders off MY boat (I cannot rid my neighbors boats of
>> their spiders)?
>> 2. Cleaning those brown spots they have already left behind?
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>> I searched the web, and alt.cruising, and the best suggestion found
>> there was to keep a tree frog on the boat! They did not say HOW they
>> kept their frogs, but I am pretty sure they didn't like being on a leash
>> <G>.
>>
>> Any and all suggestions welcome.
>>
>> James Fauver
>> P19 Southern Star
>> Lake Conroe, Texas
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