Un-wanted guests

We made back to the Snow goose only to find that we had been invaded while we were gone. The German cockroach had moved in and set up residency! The boat was infested with them. It was enough to make your skin crawl off your body. We bought 6 cans of Raid and tried to poison them. No Luck.

Anna after killing her hundreth roach while moving stuff off the boat.

Then I tore out a lot of the insides and removed almost stuff from the boat and fumigated with enough for a small house, No Luck.

Everything up ready to fumigate

 

Then we did it again with double the fumigators, still no luck. They were still kicking and crawling around, just a lot less. So, we call up a professional company and I tore the entire boat apart. I removed EVERYTHING and took down all of the ceilings. Imagine removing EVERYTHING that you own, thru an upstairs window in your house. Then carrying it all down a ladder and putting it on a flatbed trailer. Then taking the ceilings, walls, and cabinets apart on top of it all! Oh, and inspecting everything that you removed for bugs and egg sacks too. (you would not believe how much "stuff" can fit on a 40ft boat!)

One small shelf after being fumigated (every dark spot is a roach)

1/2 of everything is off the boat... the pile got to be 4 feet high!

He sprayed about 2 gals of poison everywhere and onto everything, every locker, every crack, grove, hiding place, that I could open up. What a job. 2 gal of spray later and lots of “roach bait” and we were done. Now the boat is almost back together and we are moved back on. I just hope that we have turned the corner and that all this poison will kill the last few cockroaches and not kill us (or Edie) in the process. What a home coming.



Sleeping on the boat!

This has set us back, instead of 3 days on the hard we have spent 10 days getting rid of the roaches and doing repairs to the boat before going back into the water. It’s not something that I wanted but it is typical of being a cruiser, facing the unexpected in your everyday life. Back into the water tomorrow!