What do you clean the cockpit floor with?

[FullCircle]

HAving just returned from our wonderful 2 week hols, the cockpit floor was a tea/coffee/wine/unidentified spillage area, and of course foreign dirt from the marinas, pontoons etc.
We have a Jeanneau with the diamond non slip pattern in the GRp, but it is a sod to clean, and always looks grubby.

Anyone got any ideas for a simple scheme to keep this looking reasonable, or should I just sprinkle grass seed on it and wait a month for a luxuriant lawn?

 

[jimi]

I use Cif and a deck brush ... once a year;-)

 

[Kilter]

Id go with the cleaner and a stiff brush; Flash liquid works well but suspect that Tesco own brand probably just as good. Avoid anything with the word 'marine' in it!

 

[fireball]

Just a normal kitchen cleaner - did ours on Friday ... dirty again by the evening /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

 

[Vara]

Having obtained a flagon of HLB's wonderful elixir and conducted tests on one set of garden furniture,one bike and a boat which had been occupied by licentious soldiery(and me)for 4 days,I can heartily recommend it.It does seem to reach the parts that other cleaners don't!

Don't use Cif unless you're selling the boat and want a quick fix,it's abrasive and continued use will create a dirt trap.

PM,HLB for details of purchase.

 

[Kawasaki]

Don,t know never spilt any wine .

But "Other Stains" Now don,t Larf ,Used tea bag bit of vinnegar.


No kidding, and if it dos,nt work .

Tea bag, vineger, vodca (large), tabasco sause, dribble ,grated nutmeg, dash more vodca, evict the tea bag, ice cube, bit more vodka, maybe a slice of lemon lob some more ice in , watch the stain and the Whole World and it,s Stain dissaprear!hic! /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

 

[Robin]

Cif Oxygel cleaned our Jeanneau non-slip when nothing else would after neighbours in the yard had their antifoul blasted in a gale and gave us all some as a souvenir. Macro sell it in big bottles, the thicker version is better than the spray, both are cheap. Wet the surface, brush the CIF on, leave about 5 minutes and hose/scrub off.

 

[longjohnsilver]

Well that could spoil one of the three most useless things to have on a boat, a standard lamp, a naval officer and a lawn mower /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[Twister_Ken]

A teak grating hides most of the evidence of excessive licentiousness.

 

[FullCircle]

A fine, if somewhat expensive way to relieve the visual orridness.
Do you have a couple of cubic metres left over from your own marquetry exercise Ken?

 

[Lakesailor]

Clean? Could you elucidate?

 

[BlueMan]

Pro Marine Blitz-It. Best cleaner I have come across. Available from most chandlers.

 

[BlueSkyNick]

dunno - I will find out what SWMBO uses when she comes back from her night shift at the local brickworks, while she cooks my breakfast, before she sets off to sweep the streets with a tooth brush for another 15hours.

 

[Robin]

We had one of those grating thingies to hide the debris on our W33, looked good too! Now we do have a teak laid cockpit and seats but no more which pleases me as I hear tell teak decks can lead to madness and an end to happy relations with the bank manager.

 

[Andrew_Fanner]

I use a child wanting pocket money as a device for boat cleaning.

 

[Twister_Ken]

"Do you have a couple of cubic metres left over from your own marquetry exercise Ken?"

Do you really think a boatyard would hand over spare teak, even if I had paid for it?

"I hear tell teak decks can lead to madness and an end to happy relations with the bank manager."

Now, I wonder where you heard that?

 

[NPMR]

They told me it was an umbrella not a lamp standard! Can't trust anyone these days.

 

[Vara]

In that little saying wheelbarrows,umbrellas,lamp stands,lawn mowers etc etc.Are variables but the constant factor is "Naval Officer"!

 

[Skyva_2]

Cillit Bang (honest, real name) works very well. Would not be without it now.

On the other hand:

Definition -

Clean (nautical): an imaginary unstable transient state of infinitely short duration between dirt and dirt.