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Advice please...
- Thread starter Gfrank
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Keeping it clean and waxed maybe? I thought most places may have a wash down station before and after you’re on the water. Either way, a quick rinse or power wash should blow them off after you get off the water.
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I was at Lake Powell late last summer and had the same worries, mainly I did not want to bring those little buggers back to my home lakes.
The biggest thing is not having your boat in the water for more than a week at a time. I don’t know your situation but if you can pull your boat each day and drain it that will help a lot towards your goal of keeping them off your boat. Once you are done in those waters, or if you are going to be boating in those waters regularly, removing all the stuff in your boat where lake water could get to and pressure wash it.
To properly kill off the veligers / larvae you need 140* water for 10 seconds, or 120* for several minutes. The new decon station at Wahweap at Lake Powell has a big tank you back your boat and trailer into, that water is 120* and the boat is run for 5 minutes I believe and for wake boats all ballast tanks are filled then drained.
When I returned home from LP, I turned up my water heater temp to 150*, then just used the spray nozzle on the end of those hose to wash out the entire boat. I filled the bilge with this 150* water and let it sit for a bit before actuating the bilge pump to evacuate part of that water. I also flushed the engines with that same 150* water to make sure non of them were in the cooling system.
The biggest thing is not having your boat in the water for more than a week at a time. I don’t know your situation but if you can pull your boat each day and drain it that will help a lot towards your goal of keeping them off your boat. Once you are done in those waters, or if you are going to be boating in those waters regularly, removing all the stuff in your boat where lake water could get to and pressure wash it.
To properly kill off the veligers / larvae you need 140* water for 10 seconds, or 120* for several minutes. The new decon station at Wahweap at Lake Powell has a big tank you back your boat and trailer into, that water is 120* and the boat is run for 5 minutes I believe and for wake boats all ballast tanks are filled then drained.
When I returned home from LP, I turned up my water heater temp to 150*, then just used the spray nozzle on the end of those hose to wash out the entire boat. I filled the bilge with this 150* water and let it sit for a bit before actuating the bilge pump to evacuate part of that water. I also flushed the engines with that same 150* water to make sure non of them were in the cooling system.
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Here’s a link that may help…
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They have been in Lake Champlain for Years. Boating is limited to about 6 months here. 5 months in a slip will grow mussels. I have cleaned them off the jet pumps at the end of the season using Starbrite Hull Cleaner and a stiff brush. The combo releases them quickly.
This is a "Coming in too Hot" fender that touches the water at our slip for the Beneteau after 5 months in place.
This is a "Coming in too Hot" fender that touches the water at our slip for the Beneteau after 5 months in place.
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All you really have to do is let the boat dry out. Let it sit for a week is usually enough in our climate. We used to be on an infested lake regularly, Texoma, and if we were going to a different lake that isn't then we'd be sure to be out of Texoma waters for at least 2 weeks. Now we don't have ballast bags to deal with but I would think maybe flushing the bags with diluted bleach water or something. As long as you kill the suckers you're not gonna spread them.
