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Western Lake Erie has at least as many spiders as anywhere and the birds feed on them aggressively. Boat rails make excellent perches and birds take advantage of that to, well, relieve themselves of those spiders. The result is a dark mess that must be scrubbed with soap and water. No problem apparently as everyone in every marina does it once a week or so.
The drip pans beneath our main engine and generator are clean enough to eat from (if you were really hungry) and our bilge is as oil-free as any I can imagine. The same can not be said for stuff growing and accumulating down there thanks to periodic shower sump overflows and the odd rain incursion (a separate matter under investigation). What it really needs is the same scrubbing with soap and water.
The slurry of soap, water, bird poop, and spider guts (and soon mayflies) runs off the deck and out the scuppers right into the marina, but apparently it is a real problem, even legally so, if the same kind of ooze gets pumped into the marina from a bilge pump. Is there a way to conscientiously clean one's bilge these days?
The drip pans beneath our main engine and generator are clean enough to eat from (if you were really hungry) and our bilge is as oil-free as any I can imagine. The same can not be said for stuff growing and accumulating down there thanks to periodic shower sump overflows and the odd rain incursion (a separate matter under investigation). What it really needs is the same scrubbing with soap and water.
The slurry of soap, water, bird poop, and spider guts (and soon mayflies) runs off the deck and out the scuppers right into the marina, but apparently it is a real problem, even legally so, if the same kind of ooze gets pumped into the marina from a bilge pump. Is there a way to conscientiously clean one's bilge these days?