| Most everyone who owns a boat knows that sinking | | | | for a ride. The sloshing water will clean the bilge |
| feeling you get when you open the cabin door after | | | | bottom, then water-vac it out and rinse. Don't pump the |
| the boat's been locked up for a few days. It's that | | | | bilge water with the Tide into the water (it's illegal). |
| damp mildew smell maybe mixed with odors from the | | | | Now that your bilge is in good shape lets keep it odor |
| head, petrol chemicals in the engine compartment, stale | | | | free. Quantum Pure Aire has been making air purifiers |
| tobacco odors, odors from the galley, etc. The smell is | | | | for the marine industry for over 20 years. Their |
| a little embarrassing for guests you bring on-board in | | | | products have been written up in all the major boating |
| addition to how your on-board clothing, cushions and | | | | magazines for years. They have several models for |
| bedding smells. | | | | different applications. They work with low level ozone |
| The majority of boat odors emanate from the bilge. | | | | generation and attack airborne contaminants and |
| The water in the bilge gets nasty. There are oil and | | | | control the source of the contaminants. |
| fuel odors. Holding tanks leach odors into the bilge. | | | | The best solution for bilge odor control is a product |
| Mold, mildew and bacteria build up. All those smells end | | | | called the BilgeBuster. Quantum's BilgeBuster(TM) |
| up in your cabin and is not nose friendly as well as not | | | | effectively eliminates odors from Holding Tanks, Grey |
| healthy. Mold and mildew build up in the bilge and | | | | Water, Gas and Diesel fumes while prohibiting the |
| permeate to the cabin. Air fresheners don't work, they | | | | growth of harmful Mold and Mildew. US Coast Guard |
| just cover up the odors. Air filter may be a temporary | | | | Labs FCC 15B (non-interference) approved and is |
| solution but as soon as they are turned off, the odor | | | | absolutely safe for use in the bilge where gasoline, |
| returns. What needs to be done is to stop the odors at | | | | diesel, and propane fumes will often accumulate. |
| the source. | | | | Hundreds of boaters have installed these units in their |
| Some measures needed to be aware of in the bilge | | | | bilge and in a couple of days stopped odors they had |
| are making sure all your hoses are properly clamped | | | | been fight with for years. They work on boats from |
| (below water level double clamped). Check you bilge | | | | 20 footers to mega yachts. It's a great system, check |
| pump periodically by lifting the float to make sure it | | | | it out. |
| engages. Use engine oil catch tray or absorbent pads | | | | In addition, there are cabin units to control cooking |
| under the engine to capture leaking oils. Use a good | | | | odors, tobacco odors, pet odors, mildew in the |
| detergent like liquid Tide (phosphate free) to clean the | | | | cabin,etc. |
| bilge. Put a cup or so of Tide in the bilge water and go | | | | |