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Saturday, 19 January 2008

Armor All for cleaning and protecting the kayak

armor all I was really very keen to head out into the Basin to catch some bream and or flathead for dinner tonight and having pin pointed the most fishiest of areas within a comfortable paddle distance, I'd concocted a pretty much fool-proof plan that involves a stake-out pole, loads of berley and my Ultra-Bream Nitro fishing rod. That plan, however, has been thoroughly defeated by the weather, which has been bucketing down in spurts and showering in between. Sadly, it's just not much of a day to go paddling at all. So instead, I figured I'd do a summer-time spring clean in what feels like typical winter weather.

The first port of call was to get my car into reasonable shape. It's an absolute disgrace and has been for some time. It hasn't been washed and vacuumed since I left Townsville so that was my main priority. That meant a trip to a car wash in Nowra, and then an hour or so of scrubbing at home. My main ally in this cause was Armor All protectant, which I've recently started to find all sorts of fitting uses for.

One of those uses is to clean my kayak with. It really does a pretty impressive job of bringing a respectable shine back to the polyethylene surface. It's also great for cleaning up the mirage drive as well as hatch seals. It makes a world of difference on the hatches and I now use this instead of Vaseline because not only does it help to restore a smooth working action, it also helps sure up the seal itself. Water tends to bead right off this stuff, so that and Armor All's UV protectant qualities really is a good way to go.