Subject: Re: [baidarka] cleaning mildew
From: Hyok Lee (hyok@mindspring.com)
Date: Wed Jan 26 2005 - 10:47:07 EST
If saltwater paddlers have no problems with mildew, how about sloshing with saltwater? Would be safer than using something poisonous. I have not tried it, so I don't know if it would work. Never had any problems with my boat, since I varnished the frame, prior to covering it.
Hyok
-----Original Message-----
From: MICHAEL SILVIUS <M.Silvius@worldnet.att.net>
Sent: Jan 26, 2005 5:55 AM
To: baidarka@paddlewise.net
Subject: Re: [baidarka] cleaning mildew
Paul:
I had the same problem. It is even more acute with a canvas skin. At the
very ends on the breast hook plates which I made out of a piece of Baltic
birch and later discovered to be the perfect medium for growing mold. What
really aggravates it is fresh water. Every time after using in a pool or a
pond within a couple of weeks I have a proverbial garden of blues yellows
and greens in the thing. My solution is glycol. Yes it is poisonous so don't
leave it around for the cat or doing to lick up, and they will as it is
sweet tasting. Use the green stuff not the pink PC stuff. Slosh it out
occasionally w/ some Prestone anti-freeze and you should be good to go. Here
in Maine freezing seems to have no effect on mold. It goes dormant for the
winter and then comes back again in the spring.
I have since re-skinned my boats in Polyester fabric and coated the
offending areas of the frame (stem and stern pieces, breast hooks and
gunwale ends) with epoxy. This seems to make a difference. As the probem is
not so acute now.
michael
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Montgomery" <paul@paddleandoar.com>
Subject: [baidarka] cleaning mildew
> I built a boat last summer that is starting to get black mildew
> between the frame and skin in impossible to get to places. Are there
> any suggestions as to what to use to get rid of it??
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