HI Katy and Mike, My name is Brad W. I have read your blog and have enjoyed it as I'm sure I will continue to in the future as you travel by boat to where ever you decide to go. I have a Catalina 30 here in San Diego and only do costal cruising, but mostly just day sailing around the area. So I know where you were last from before you set off on your adventure. I hope you fumigate the boat while on the hard. I feel sorry for the geckos but I wouldn't want them taken to someplace they don't belong either and start a problem there, like the snakes that are totaling the bird population on one Pacific Island. They eat the eggs and they have no predators so they are taking over the island. I do have a suggestion on keeping roaches out of the boat, but you may have already heard this, if so never mind. Here is the suggestion. NEVER bring card board aboard. Most cruisers leave it all at the dock and carry things in cloth bags they either made or got from Trader Joe's. That includes ANY kind of card board, package boxes, cereal boxes, any thing. Roaches can hide under the glued flaps. Many also have a Vac-U-Seal machine too. They seal everything from fish and food to tools not used very often to spare parts. It keeps them from rusting or getting hard in the case of o-rings and gaskets. The down side is it is another appliance to store as are the bags and there is the used bags to dispose of too. If you cut and make the bags large enough to reseal several times you will get better use of them and only have a 1" strip to throw away each time you have to open a sealed bag, until it is too small to reseal.
HI Katy and Mike,
ReplyDeleteMy name is Brad W. I have read your blog and have enjoyed it as I'm sure I will continue to in the future as you travel by boat to where ever you decide to go. I have a Catalina 30 here in San Diego and only do costal cruising, but mostly just day sailing around the area. So I know where you were last from before you set off on your adventure.
I hope you fumigate the boat while on the hard. I feel sorry for the geckos but I wouldn't want them taken to someplace they don't belong either and start a problem there, like the snakes that are totaling the bird population on one Pacific Island. They eat the eggs and they have no predators so they are taking over the island.
I do have a suggestion on keeping roaches out of the boat, but you may have already heard this, if so never mind. Here is the suggestion. NEVER bring card board aboard. Most cruisers leave it all at the dock and carry things in cloth bags they either made or got from Trader Joe's. That includes ANY kind of card board, package boxes, cereal boxes, any thing. Roaches can hide under the glued flaps. Many also have a Vac-U-Seal machine too. They seal everything from fish and food to tools not used very often to spare parts. It keeps them from rusting or getting hard in the case of o-rings and gaskets. The down side is it is another appliance to store as are the bags and there is the used bags to dispose of too. If you cut and make the bags large enough to reseal several times you will get better use of them and only have a 1" strip to throw away each time you have to open a sealed bag, until it is too small to reseal.