DangerousPirate
Active member
This must be a very common problem for boaties, so I hope there is a good answer.
Basically inside any and all of my lockers and cabinets, the surfaces just turn wet and moldy overtime.
All the items of my lockers, especially fabric, are unable to be kept in the locker as they'd just get wet. Clothes in backs on the bunk instead of the lockers and cabinets. An issue for the cushions as well, I turn the bed cushions after every night to dry them during the day, but the seat cushions have the same issue. Everything that touches the hull somewhere is just wet.
I discussed this with a friend and said I'd want to put some yoga matts or similar in there to insulate the hull surface and prevent condensation (which causes all of this obviously), but he said if I put it in there, it'll just get moldy behind the matt and that might protect my clothes and felted storage boxes etc, but only creates a problem further down the line.
It's a bit problem. Recently I opened the wine "safe", which is under the chart table seat, and I hadn't touched the bottles in there for quite a while and now all the labels are off! Which is the malbec? Which was the cabernet sauvignon?! No one knows until I take the cork off, the labels just disintegrated. Living like a savage now, drinking from unlabelled bottles.
My suit jackets were touching the hull and need a proper dry cleaning job now, as well. Now I am drinking from unlabelled bottles without the proper attire.
So what does the clever mariner do to tackle this problem? Glue down carpet or foam backed vinyl in all the lockers and cabinets (especially near and below waterline)? If it's glued down, it can't mold behind it, can it? And if the insulation is thick enough, it should stop condensation, shouldn't it?
Basically inside any and all of my lockers and cabinets, the surfaces just turn wet and moldy overtime.
All the items of my lockers, especially fabric, are unable to be kept in the locker as they'd just get wet. Clothes in backs on the bunk instead of the lockers and cabinets. An issue for the cushions as well, I turn the bed cushions after every night to dry them during the day, but the seat cushions have the same issue. Everything that touches the hull somewhere is just wet.
I discussed this with a friend and said I'd want to put some yoga matts or similar in there to insulate the hull surface and prevent condensation (which causes all of this obviously), but he said if I put it in there, it'll just get moldy behind the matt and that might protect my clothes and felted storage boxes etc, but only creates a problem further down the line.
It's a bit problem. Recently I opened the wine "safe", which is under the chart table seat, and I hadn't touched the bottles in there for quite a while and now all the labels are off! Which is the malbec? Which was the cabernet sauvignon?! No one knows until I take the cork off, the labels just disintegrated. Living like a savage now, drinking from unlabelled bottles.
My suit jackets were touching the hull and need a proper dry cleaning job now, as well. Now I am drinking from unlabelled bottles without the proper attire.
So what does the clever mariner do to tackle this problem? Glue down carpet or foam backed vinyl in all the lockers and cabinets (especially near and below waterline)? If it's glued down, it can't mold behind it, can it? And if the insulation is thick enough, it should stop condensation, shouldn't it?