Diesel/Hatteras Smell & Seagull Guano

[racclarkson@gmail.com]

Here's a great combination.

I wanted to update the thread started by Seven and add a little something. I sprayed OdorGone, recommended by Seven, throughout my boat. I returned to ASLAN yesterday after four days of being shut up tight. I was pleasantly surprised to have found no stuffiness or stale smells. The smell of the OdorGone product itself was also missing. For odor removal without the perfume, I recommend this product.

I read about Clorox Foamer on a trawler forum and decided to try it on sun-baked seagull crap. Regular detergents have not proven satisfactory even with lots of elbow grease. I sprayed this stuff on stains that had resisted hard scrubbing. After 5-10 minutes the crap rinsed away. Doesn't take much either.

[SEVEN]

Glad it also worked for you. I'm going to spray my head hoses next week per your recommendation.

[JonHupp]

What concentration of Odergone do you 'spray around'. Any trick to get rid of some of the old boat smell? Thanks!

[Pascal]

The main source of odor is the amount of raw plywood we have in these boats, especially the flooring. I ve applied epoxy on a some of the sub floor ad it has cut the smell pretty dramatically. You obviously can't coat the underside of the sub flooring but coating the to side really helps.

[Toolsntoys]

When I was cleaning the aft bilge area this winter I noticed water kept seeping into the bilge space. From a crack in the fiber glass Apparently there is a space in the hull that runs under the fuel Tanks some how water got into that space so I drilled a two inch hole for better acces to pump the water out the water had the hatteras smell and bad. I'm convinced that is were the smell originates from. Now I have no hatt smell

[Toolsntoys]

I thought I'd upload a pic. Don't mean to hijack the conversation but since we are talking about smells

[bobk]

I thought I'd upload a pic. Don't mean to hijack the conversation but since we are talking about smells

You would do well to coat the raw plywood with epoxy to help prevent rot from originating at the hole.

Bobk

[Mike in S Fla]

I thought I'd upload a pic. Don't mean to hijack the conversation but since we are talking about smells

Pete looking at your pic it appears you drilled the hole in the forward bilge just fore of the waste tank am i correct?

thanks, mike

[Geoff58y]

The main source of odor is the amount of raw plywood we have in these boats, especially the flooring. I ve applied epoxy on a some of the sub floor ad it has cut the smell pretty dramatically. You obviously can't coat the underside of the sub flooring but coating the to side really helps.

Totally agree with Pascal here. We have owned two 58YFs and both had the oh-so-special 'hatteras smell'.. the single most effective thing we did was pull up all the carpet/flooring and seal the plywood with epoxy. As Pascal notes in his experience as well, this virtually eliminated the problem.

[bobk]

Totally agree with Pascal here. We have owned two 58YFs and both had the oh-so-special 'hatteras smell'.. the single most effective thing we did was pull up all the carpet/flooring and seal the plywood with epoxy. As Pascal notes in his experience as well, this virtually eliminated the problem.

I will agree in part, but in my boat, the culprit was wet plywood under metal elbows in the exhaust and the mufflers. After cleaning and saturating with a thin epoxy, the Hatteras smell is gone. All the plywood soles are still just painted plywood.

Bobk