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djn
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Initially Posted - 06/11/2006 :  11:28:47  Show Profile
Hi All, my wife (Annie) and I spend our first night on the boat...sort of. We got to he boat about seven last night and at seven thirty our friends Tonya and Arnold stopped by and we ate hour dehoves (jerky and salteens) and drank Rum and Cokes. We talked and laughed until ten then they headed back home and we setteled into for a good first night sleep on the boat. After we setteled in and closed up the hatches the stink that I thought I had gotten rid of started purmiated the cabin. By 1:30am, we could not take it any longer and drove home. It smells like a mix of bilge and head. Actually I was not too bothered by it but Annie just couldn't take it. So I have my work cut out for me in the comming weeks. By the way, the problem with the motor turned out to be the ignition modual so now for $250.00 it runs like it should. Stay tunned for the next episode. Cheers.
Dennis
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Champipple
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Response Posted - 06/11/2006 :  12:05:15  Show Profile  Visit Champipple's Homepage
do you have a head tank?
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Frank Hopper
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Response Posted - 06/11/2006 :  12:33:09  Show Profile  Visit Frank Hopper's Homepage
Maybe you are smelling your slip mate... You should try a sailboat only club, they smell better.
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Champipple
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Response Posted - 06/11/2006 :  12:50:59  Show Profile  Visit Champipple's Homepage
Those are a lot tougher to find as the ponds get bigger Frank. Especially in the easter midwest....Crescent Sail might be the only one in that area I know of.

Duane
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djn
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Response Posted - 06/11/2006 :  13:07:53  Show Profile
Hi Frank, actually right across the Clinton river from my marina is the North Star Sail Club. But, the Clinton River Catalina Association has most of its members at my marina and I got a $200.00 discount off my slip just because I was a member. Where my boat is slipped is called the cheap seats. They are mostly stink boats with a few 25' sailboats here and there.

Hi Duane, yes I do have a holding tank, but I thought I had sealed the lid fairly tight. Do the holding tanks leach smell?
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Champipple
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Response Posted - 06/11/2006 :  13:39:34  Show Profile  Visit Champipple's Homepage
There should be a vent hose that comes off the tank to the deck, do you have it and is it blocked by stuff on the deck??

dw
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djn
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Response Posted - 06/11/2006 :  14:13:57  Show Profile
Hi Duane I will check that first thing tomorrow. Other than the stink, we were very comfortable. She was in the Vbirth and I in the Qbirth. I'll let you know what I find. Cheers.
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ClamBeach
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Response Posted - 06/11/2006 :  14:19:08  Show Profile
The 'head odor' can permeate right through the sides of older sanitation hoses... might want to give them a sniff.
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Champipple
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Response Posted - 06/11/2006 :  15:33:43  Show Profile  Visit Champipple's Homepage
Clam's right - a new set of hoses and clamps should help that problem. Get the boat stink book on the links page. The author pretty much talks about how to de stink any boat
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djn
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Response Posted - 06/11/2006 :  18:12:46  Show Profile
Hi Duane and Clam, I just ordered the book through the links and will get to work on it this week. Cheers.
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Gambit
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Response Posted - 06/12/2006 :  08:17:27  Show Profile
A day-night solar powered vent fan will help as well. Between that and sealing several minor deck leaks my boat smells fresh like a daisy.
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