Lynn Marie
New member
If you haven't heard of "30 Seconds" before you should check this stuff out. It's promoted by Ed Humes who is a northwest garden guy and he has done so because this stuff is supposed to be safe around house, garden, and animals. It's a mold, alge, moss type remover that I have used for several years around the house to clean up concrete patios and the moss on my composition roof. This week-end I tried it on my boat. WOW what a deal.
The stuff costs about $12 a gallon at most hardware stores and you mix it with water 1:1. I always use a 2 gallon fruit sprayer around the house but did use a hand spray bottle this spring to squirt on the sliding window track to get the alge growth and it worked great but I didn't think much about other uses till this last Sunday. I brought the boat home to clean it up before I took off for a week and I needed to get it ready for Salmon at the end of the month. Becuase I have a bit much in extra weight on the starboard side the water is about 2 inches above my bottom paint line at the transom which allows a bunch of growth when I leave it for extended times at the dock. Needless to say after two months it was a bit fuzzy. I decided I'd give "30 Seconds" a try and so I sprayed it on starting at the stern and went to the bow and back to the stern where I found the green growth had already started to yellow out. When I grabbed the hose and rinsed it all fell away, and that was after I'd already tried to wash it off with just water pressure.
The other place I used it then was on the deck in the none skid where that ugly black mold grows down in the bottom of the grooves. I just gave it a squit, waited a few seconds and hosed it off. Between this stuff and TyBoo Mike's "Barkeepers Friend" my boat cleaning is getting really easy. Way easier than catching fish to get the boat dirty.
Tim, from the decks of the clean Lynn Marie.
The stuff costs about $12 a gallon at most hardware stores and you mix it with water 1:1. I always use a 2 gallon fruit sprayer around the house but did use a hand spray bottle this spring to squirt on the sliding window track to get the alge growth and it worked great but I didn't think much about other uses till this last Sunday. I brought the boat home to clean it up before I took off for a week and I needed to get it ready for Salmon at the end of the month. Becuase I have a bit much in extra weight on the starboard side the water is about 2 inches above my bottom paint line at the transom which allows a bunch of growth when I leave it for extended times at the dock. Needless to say after two months it was a bit fuzzy. I decided I'd give "30 Seconds" a try and so I sprayed it on starting at the stern and went to the bow and back to the stern where I found the green growth had already started to yellow out. When I grabbed the hose and rinsed it all fell away, and that was after I'd already tried to wash it off with just water pressure.
The other place I used it then was on the deck in the none skid where that ugly black mold grows down in the bottom of the grooves. I just gave it a squit, waited a few seconds and hosed it off. Between this stuff and TyBoo Mike's "Barkeepers Friend" my boat cleaning is getting really easy. Way easier than catching fish to get the boat dirty.
Tim, from the decks of the clean Lynn Marie.
