Stee6043
Well-Known Member
My marina is launching boats and I'm 100% ready. I swung out yesterday with some time on my hands with the primary objective of removing the plastic covering my boat.
I got there and figured, shoot, let's clean out the bilge. This is not something I usually do indoors. I generally hose it out a bit when I get it in the slip in the spring. Yesterday I had my trusty Home Depot "bucket head" vac and went for it. Why not, getting ahead, being productive?
Good lord....that smelled nasty. I mean really bad. Pull the canvas, turn on a fan bad. I had maybe a 1/2" of water, just below the bilge pumps, maybe 2-3 gallons total. Zero smell until I forced the crap up into my bucket. Smelled like pond water that had been sitting since October.
So...note to self...don't do that again next year. Or better yet, vac it dry when it gets parked in the Fall
I got there and figured, shoot, let's clean out the bilge. This is not something I usually do indoors. I generally hose it out a bit when I get it in the slip in the spring. Yesterday I had my trusty Home Depot "bucket head" vac and went for it. Why not, getting ahead, being productive?
Good lord....that smelled nasty. I mean really bad. Pull the canvas, turn on a fan bad. I had maybe a 1/2" of water, just below the bilge pumps, maybe 2-3 gallons total. Zero smell until I forced the crap up into my bucket. Smelled like pond water that had been sitting since October.
So...note to self...don't do that again next year. Or better yet, vac it dry when it gets parked in the Fall