Cal's right, except they're called Bayslammers. Good catch on the mold, too - missed that. Guess what I did this weekend? Cleaned stinky boat.
You know those pole deals you can get for the boat cover, where the pole goes down through the covered cockpit area and then you lift the cover up on it and tie her down (makes a tent)? Well, two Saturday nights ago, we got a crazy rain and I didn't have the pole in and hadn't replaced the huge cheap blue tarp. Well, the rain goes off the roof, onto the boat and fills the sagging mess until water reaches the pole hole, then proceeds to fill the friggin boat with water. So that was Saturday.
THEN I went on travel while it rained several more days. Drain plug was out and dripping, so I open the thing up and the bildge is full up to the engine mounts. Kinda stupid, but I turned on the battery and let the bidlge pump have a go - FIVE MINUTES LATER, the bilge is empty. Every horizontal piece of carpet is wet. Every cushion is wet. Opened the engine hatch to find every surface of all orientations covered with condensation. ECU's dry, though.
Took all cushions OUT. Took EVERTHING out of every cubby. Took all floor panels and removable bulkheads OUT. Wet/dry vacuumed everything and left the boat open during the day Saturday and Sunday. At night, I put a Patton fan in the bow shooting outward, then put the boat cover on to keep dew out. As Cal says, I had the trunk open and used a foam sheet to sort of ensure that air went in through the trunk and around both sides of the engine before feeding forward and out through the fan. Ran that sucker all Saturday night and last night.
Left all the cushions/floorboards/bulkheads on the garage floor all weekend. Coming out into the garage, our noses were hit with "stinky boat" smell. Ended up putting them back in the boat (open/stood up of course) last night before rigging the fan for silent running.
Shehaut, man. If you let these things get wet, they are just such a pain. Better than the alternative though.
Our friend's got a Hurricane deck boat, and within the first six months, he had let his boat get so bad that there was permament visible mold discoloration in every storage compartment. Come to find out, his bilge drain was blocked by the pounds of fiberglass shavings found in most production boats.
People think that boats are supposed to get wet, but dude...if you let them stay wet, they will deteriorate QUICKLY.
One thing I really dislike about our boats is how the carpet is layed. They took the stringer/line and glued that into the hull. Then they carpeted everything before finally laying down the hull top down on top of the carpet/liner/stringer/hull. In doing so, they've killed our ability to change carpet easily.
Anyway, because of this construction method, the ice chest sits directly on carpet. In the v-drives, it's under where the observer would sit in a d-drive. There's no way to remove it or get at it except from the very sides. Guess what thrives in a dark, moist fibrous environment? Not much we can do - if it grows, it grows. Bleach kills it, but it'd have to be REALLY serious for me to bring bleach into my S22.
I'd have liked it much better if they'd left the carpet out of the sandwich - at least in the main areas. This way, you bond the hull top to the liner and then glass the joint. Even staying with the aluminum floor panels is cool, cuz your snap-in carpet goes on top it all. Get home from the lake, pop the carpet out. When your carpet gets matted down, you replace it. It would also be amazing if the cubby carpet was removeable too. If you kept the vertical carpet an inch or two off the deck, it'd never really get wet and wouldn't need to come out.
A guy coould spend a LOT of time/duckets trying to engineer a boat into being low maintenance. Toyota did a lot of good in that department but wasn't perfect.
