Here we have may flies. Thousands just on one side of the hull and another thousand on the cockpit sole. not mention on the sides of the Styrofoam under the dock itself. Literally thousands. Open the companionway and some fly in. Nasty little buggers. They even land on your leg. They don't bite or anything, they just are. I find the best way to not have them around is to wash down the dock and the entire outside of the boat for at least 20 minutes and they get wet and fall into the water where the fish eat them. Kinda like a soft rain and they fall into the water. The fish know and swim along side where the scuppers drains out and the feast is on.
Last week I noticed cockroaches. My wife cringed. I bombed the cabin and now they are all dead. Now I must vacuum out the nooks and crannies to retrieve the dead. Then clean the wood interior. PITA. I use a bug killer spray once a month inside and out. It helps keep the spiders at bay. It says it kills roaches, but I wonder if maybe I missed a line or two. I spray the dock lines real well so nothing will crawl up them. I even do the side of the vessel next to me for bugs and spiders.
I once had a mouse three yrs ago (he ate the starfish)otherwise I would of never known I had one. Live trap and peanut butter and he was mine all mine.
Between the May flies and cockroaches and the spiders, the raccoons on the docks that knock over the trash cans aren't so bad. Now, where oh where did those feral cats go to? Then there's the birds that sit on the rigging and they must think I like them because they dive bomb me while I'm washing the spider and bird poop off my white deck and green sunbrella covers. I think the birds have a meeting on my cockpit table when I leave. They sure do make a mess, and I'm out of spare cd's.
Keep it up,
Ctskip
