Re: M i d g e s
Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2011 5:06 pm
I find that it only needs 10 minutes or so with the hatch shut and a coil burning to get shot of the wee annoying people, so I tend to light a couple of short lengths, around 20mm which go out in about that time. The Yokoyama holds wee bits as well as complete coils...ubergeekian wrote:Years ago I made a big mistake in tying up for the night at the back of Crinan Basin (by the car park and where the vulgar motor boats seem to live now) and leaving the hatch open for ventilation. I woke up in the middle of the night with my arms on fire. A subsequent count estimated 400 midge bites on each forearm.DaveS wrote: I keep on board Moon Tigers (licenced by the Pyrethrum Bureau of Kenya) for use (in a Yokoyama Mk VII holder) in the boarded up cabin.
The worse mistake, though, was in sleepily lighting a mosquito coil and closing the hatch. I cannot remember whether I or my crew woke first, but it was a damn good thing someone did because we were both barely able to breathe. I do not like to imagine what might have happened if we'd had another hour of it.