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eguevara
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Initially Posted - 03/15/2011 :  19:17:15  Show Profile  Visit eguevara's Homepage
Look what I found behind the stove.


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Dave5041
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Response Posted - 03/15/2011 :  19:22:29  Show Profile
Kind of a condominium for stingers.
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skybird
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Response Posted - 03/15/2011 :  19:23:51  Show Profile  Visit skybird's Homepage
I had a C22 that had dirt dauber nests like that in many strange places--some really hard to reach for removal!
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eguevara
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Response Posted - 03/15/2011 :  19:28:30  Show Profile  Visit eguevara's Homepage
yeah I found some under the galley.. I saw it when I removed the top drawer and looked up..

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OLarryR
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Response Posted - 03/16/2011 :  03:26:04  Show Profile  Visit OLarryR's Homepage
Wow !

I'm afraid to look behind there after seeing your photo. If I don't see it...then it's not a problem ?
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redeye
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Response Posted - 03/16/2011 :  04:01:48  Show Profile
Yepper.. mine had some and they would show up other places on the boat. I thought that was normal to have some dirt dobbers...

After removing the the stove ( and removing those nests ) they are now gone from the boat.

And the new Kenyon Butane stove ROCKS! storing it elsewhere and using that space for a cooler has been a great improvement.
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trptelf
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Response Posted - 03/16/2011 :  14:27:39  Show Profile
Mine was full of dead ladybugs...eeeewww...
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islander
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Response Posted - 03/16/2011 :  16:27:30  Show Profile
Better there than behind the head...Yeeeoooww!
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Stinkpotter
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Response Posted - 03/16/2011 :  18:02:47  Show Profile
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by redeye</i>
<br />...And the new Keyton <i>(Kenyon)</i> Butane stove ROCKS!...<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">Didn't I tell ya? Instant real cooking!
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redeye
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Response Posted - 03/18/2011 :  04:15:12  Show Profile
&lt;&lt; Didn't I tell ya? Instant real cooking! &gt;&gt;

Ya got that right, Thanks Dave.. I'm dreaming of Eggs Benedict in the sun now.. that Kenyon stove has really changed the way I look at onboard cooking. I've got some newfangled flexible egg poachers, and looking at how to make the hollandaise onboard next.

I'm gonna feel like an ad from the Ketchup Advisory Board.
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Scooter
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Response Posted - 03/18/2011 :  04:30:14  Show Profile
FWIW.

I heard a long time ago that if you place dryer strips in certain places, that dirt dobbers won't set up shop. These are those pieces of cloth that you place in the dryer to help static cling and they add a slight scent.

We always seem to get them in the sail covers. Or worse yet on the sail itself. If we place a few under the sail cover it seems to help. They must not like the chemicals they use to impregnate the cloth.

This year, after we splash her, we will place them at the seams of the companionway boards. They seem to come in there mostly.

That's the wosrt I've ever seen though. Makes you wonder what's really in all those places you can't look???

Good Luck.
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Prospector
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Response Posted - 03/18/2011 :  05:56:24  Show Profile  Visit Prospector's Homepage
I wonder if I am just far enough North to not have trouble with teh daubbers.

When we brought the boat home, there were nests in a few places - behind teh salon table on teh bulkhead, around the electronics, in the quarterberth, etc. I took them all out and cleaned up, and haven't had the bugs back at all.

We got the boat in Detroit, and brought it home to Toronto, hardly enough of a latitude gain to have much effect on climate, but maybe just enough.

Anyway, I feel for ya. Good luck getting rod of the bugs!
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Stinkpotter
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Response Posted - 03/18/2011 :  08:22:50  Show Profile
One summer we had a death in the family--didn't get the boat out for over a month... When I started to hoist the main, dozens of baby mud-daubers came spilling out all over the deck, cockpit, etc--sorta like large spiders. I'll leave you with your own mental picture.
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Ben
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Response Posted - 03/18/2011 :  10:43:16  Show Profile
I've tried the dryer sheet idea, but didn't see any additional reluctance from the mud daubers to build nests. I'll try again this spring after I splash down. Those mud daubers drive me crazy.
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Steve Milby
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Response Posted - 03/18/2011 :  11:37:15  Show Profile
If you cover or screen the louvers in the hatchboard, and seal the spaces between the hatchboards and the sliding hatch, you'll exclude most of the mud daubers from inside the boat.
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Response Posted - 03/18/2011 :  20:53:16  Show Profile  Visit skybird's Homepage


We got the boat in Detroit, and brought it home to Toronto, hardly enough of a latitude gain to have much effect on climate, but maybe just enough.

Maybe they don't have passports or can't get through customs?
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Stinkpotter
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Response Posted - 03/20/2011 :  08:44:55  Show Profile
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by redeye</i>
<br />...And the new Kenyon Butane stove ROCKS!...<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">FWIW: Amazon has several rebranded versions (as far as I can tell) of the Kenyon [url="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000BVC4NY/ref=pe_97920_19285690_pe_epc_d5"]on sale[/url] right now for numbers like $15.75.
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andypavo
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Response Posted - 04/07/2011 :  11:01:45  Show Profile
Had a hornet's nest under the boat nestled in beside the keel once. A wasp tried to build a nest inside the cabin this spring. Yellow jackets all inside the cockpit cubbies.
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