For your sake, I hope you haven't lived through this, but if you have, I need your advice.
I got my mod 2 out of winter storage (a friend's barn) today and found the biggest mouse nest I've ever seen in the cuddy. I'd left old socks full of mothballs in the cockpit and the rest of the box of mothballs in the cuddy, but it didn't deter the beggars. The mice had actually chewed up the moth-ball containing socks and used them for building the nest! The smell when I opened the cuddy cover was simply indescribable.
Anyway, the cloth cuddy cover still stinks after 6 washings and is soaking in disinfectant as I type. I expect that I will be building a hatch door sometime soon. All the lines etc. that I had stored inside the cuddy and cover smell too and will need to be replaced, as will the wooden paddle that had absorbed.......well, never mind.
The question for this group is how to get the smell out of the hiking straps and cloth boat cover. Both are physically undamaged and don't seem to have absorbed anything liquid, they've just been exposed to the odor for up to six months. Obviously, I've hosed both off thoroughly several times, but you can still smell the straps from 5 feet away and the cover from 2.
I'm I condemned to spend hundreds replacing these things or is there a way to get them clean?
Thanks!
Gordon
I got my mod 2 out of winter storage (a friend's barn) today and found the biggest mouse nest I've ever seen in the cuddy. I'd left old socks full of mothballs in the cockpit and the rest of the box of mothballs in the cuddy, but it didn't deter the beggars. The mice had actually chewed up the moth-ball containing socks and used them for building the nest! The smell when I opened the cuddy cover was simply indescribable.
Anyway, the cloth cuddy cover still stinks after 6 washings and is soaking in disinfectant as I type. I expect that I will be building a hatch door sometime soon. All the lines etc. that I had stored inside the cuddy and cover smell too and will need to be replaced, as will the wooden paddle that had absorbed.......well, never mind.
The question for this group is how to get the smell out of the hiking straps and cloth boat cover. Both are physically undamaged and don't seem to have absorbed anything liquid, they've just been exposed to the odor for up to six months. Obviously, I've hosed both off thoroughly several times, but you can still smell the straps from 5 feet away and the cover from 2.
I'm I condemned to spend hundreds replacing these things or is there a way to get them clean?
Thanks!
Gordon