Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Help, remove the smell of decomp from my boat?

They usually stop stinking when they dry out.

Maybe throw in some baking soda too. That is the mixture that you use to de-skunk a dog. It works wonders on that.

The mix is:

4 cups (940 ml) hydrogen peroxide, 3 percent solution
¼ cup (55 g) baking soda
1 teaspoon (5 ml) liquid dish detergent



Jerry

Yes, I wish. I placed the carcass in a plastic garbage bag, tied it, and left it by the garage for the day. When we came home from the lake, we walked past the bag and almost puked.

I can not believe we never noticed the odor over the last few weeks. The boat was only 100 feet from the house. But it was downwind.

I sure as hell ain't gonna let a bad smell ruin a good time!

Unless you just have to have it smelling fresh right now leave it out in the sun for a couple of weeks. It'll quit stinking soon enough.

Baking soda won't destroy your carpet like bleach or peroxide. Use it on pissy subfloors all the time. Never tried Rogers microban . Yet.

Axe body spray

Hydrazine. Not chlorine.

Odoban. They sell it at Home Depot.

Mike Rowe the Dirty Jobs guy said they used Odoban in an apartment where some lady died and rotted for weeks…. It worked.

I’ve used us for pet schitdt and I. Works great diluted.

Maybe Fabreeze? Worked good to get rid of spilled deer blood from a leakey ice chest off of wife's mini-van carpet about 25 years ago. Still married to her, but it was a questionable situation for a couple of days back then. Just saturate the hell out of it and let dry in a well ventilated place. I probably did not need to tell you the second part of that.

Next time shoot the cat in the head so it don't crawl off and die in your boat. Mb

Probably microban relabeled.

Pictures of the cat?

Wash it off good,let dry and give the plywood two coats of Kilz oil base, not water based.

After my MIL passed away, we had to sell her condo.She kept a little dog there. Inside all day long when she was out and about. Sh eha dthos ebig pet mats,but the dog never used them, we had to pull all the carpeting and that urine smell was soaked into the plywood flooring.Two coats of Kilz sealed it up.No smell.

You might even try some of that solution they sell to get rid of skunk smell when you wash it

that will work, but the carpet in the boat is probably glued down, and if it doesn't come up in one piece you are going to have to replace it.

This will not of much help…..if you want to reuse the boat! I usually sink the boat when used for body decomp removal! 😂 Oh, a word of advise…..have a friend come along with another boat bring you back! 😉 memtb

Take your daughter bowfishing. Let the carp sit in the boat overnight, now it just smells like fish!

On the phone pole by the street corner...

No pics of the cat. But I do have a few of the grandkids on the tube behind the boat yesterday. But it would take me an hour to get them off my phone onto the computer, then resized and posted to Rick's hosting service, and I am not that energetic today.

Big Jim, no we did not let a little stink get in the way of a good time.

Next time will be a bit more enjoyable, without the stink.

So, after the preliminary work last night, I scrubbed one full box of Soda bicarb into the wet carpet.

16 hours later, I went back and added a quart of white vinegar, and then two quarts of hydrogen peroxide.

Then rinsed it all out for about fifteen minutes with the garden hose, and applied half of a 24 oz can of Lysol aerosol disinfectant.

All I can smell now is Lysol. No question, the bacteria problem has been destroyed. Now to be sure the cadaverine and putrescine molecules have also been eliminated.

It is parked out in the sun again. We will see how it smells after a few days of sunshine. If the smell of death comes back, I will revisit some of the previous suggestions.

Perhaps odoban.