Beware of Spiders

[LuzSD]

We are in San Diego and also have a boat in Dana Point (Ca.) and have NO spiders on either boat ever! Well, actually I saw a couple really tiny ones a couple years ago..... I thought this was a Texas or southern issue but now it sounds like we are just .......lucky? We are pretty diligant about cleaning each week, but I assume we are not that unusual.

 

[MrBee]

Will be trying the Dryer sheets to see what happens.

We bought a small child size wisk broom and use that in the morning or when first going onboard to ride the webs.

 

[Steve Dion]

MrBee:

My wife puts them under cushions and even in our drawers where we store our towels and clothes. When she first puts them aboard it smells more like a house of ill repute than a man cave.

I have no idea why they work, but it does help. I just wish I could get her to go up the stick and stuff the mast head with them too. <g>

We don't have the issue that you folks with a stayed rig have no shrouds & stays for them to make the webs on, but they sure seem to collect on everything else.

One of the other things I did a few years back was to use flea collars on the life line stanchions. They can be cut and fastened around the stanchions for some decent repelling action too.

 

[zeehag]

san diego is a large place --and is usually inclusive of mission bay in conversation. what area of san diego are you located---i have been in most of the areas of the san dieigo bay and met spidey in each and every one of them--they fly through the air from land to us on their little webs---they are very small when they first come out--so you may get them when you clean very very thoroughly every week----maybe you are close enough to the shore you dont have them coming in--they fly over yours to land on someone else's boat.....lol...

be careful with dryer sheets--some asthmatics cannot be near that stuff...

 

[LuzSD]

we're at Shelter Cove, right across from Shelter Island BY and Kohler ...... and in DP we are also in a slip. Well, whatever the reason we don't have them I am grateful!

 

[zeehag]

we're at Shelter Cove, right across from Shelter Island BY and Kohler ...... and in DP we are also in a slip. Well, whatever the reason we don't have them I am grateful!

lol--you are lower than the level of the wind that brings them ---so you dont get them --i know kohler and all that area--is lovely---i used to get hauled out at kohler -- before the renovations took away the benefit of going there---now is just as pricey as the rest of them..LOL--- there also isnt the number of pepper trees ther there are in other places on the bay---seems spidey loves pepper trees..LOL--i am at coronado and we have millions of the devils..i do love spray!!!!! kill em dead and wait fro the next batch..LOL.....i just have to wait until kat is asleep on the coach house roof first --lol--he sleeps while the poison does its trick and we both stay outside until 4 hours is up..LOL...but it works.....

 

[Ross]

One afternoon sailing west I had about a million telltales on the shrouds in the form of gossimer. The boat fairly glistened.
I have seen one spider launch herself and have watched two or three land but it is the new babies that balloon by the thousands.

 

[Dan H]

Ortho Home Defense, spray the boat and no more spiders.

Getting rid of the food supply requires killing every insect on the planet. Probably a slow process.

 

[fox islander]

I wouldnt use an incecticide in the boat. I'd rather have the spiders.

 

[Ctskip]

OK, I'll bite.
And why wouldn't you use a insecticide in the boat?
You aren't going to spray it, then go sniffing and licking it, are you?
Spray and leave then come back, all the critters that mother nature put there will be long gone and won't come back for awhile.
I spray around the outside once a month and inside along the floors at the beginning of the sailing season, long before I go around sniffing and licking the drawers and lockers.

Keep it up,
Ctskip

 

[zeehag]

I wouldnt use an incecticide in the boat. I'd rather have the spiders.

how bout roaches and waterbugs(roaches) and such critters growing almost larger than a small kat in some lands?(roaches).............

if one is a travelling sailor--one will encounter worse than spidey on docks. whether the dock is a fuel stop or an overniter--there are soooo many dambugs there looking for food, warmth and shelter from the weather..us not just good enough to remove cardboard and treat bananas and allthat if you dock anywhere strange without bug killem...preferably bugkillemDED...inside and out.and the dock if overniting. i donot like sharing my bunk with anything crawly that likes to eat wires and candles and our stores.my crew mates donotlike my reaction to same....LOL.... before provisioning for a 6 mo trip i spray inside with a long lasting spray killemded and when we dock i spray outside and tarpings and whatever is within bug jump range..headliners are good to spray for skeeters.....i also spray the lines for roaches and try to keep rats out--i have kat so that is not my problem--something about kats and rats--LOL.

my kat is smart-after spraying the boat --we stay outside-i will retur4n befoe he does..lol..he waits almost 24 hours....and wont go near the sprayed areas...btw--borax doesnt work. boats have water inside an fborax leaves. killemded stays longer and works faster..use both for max effect--could save your wiring.....