How can you stop dirt dobbers from building a condo in your pee hole?

Yesterday while taking the Kenner out on High rock I noticed it didn’t have water coming out of the tell tale hole. (135 Opti)
Since it was making water out the exhaust, I knew the water pump was pumping so I made the call to go on and the water would blow the mud out of the hole once it was under way and the mud got wet. I was wrong. Long story short…. Ended up taking the cowl off, un hooking the hose and straightening a hook to dig the bee crud from the hole. (more than just mud)
Is there a good way to keep them from building in there?
Maybe a golf tee stuck in the hole when the boat is not being used?

Chris


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That would work. Golf tee, pipe cleaner or piece of wire. Anything really would work.

Had them build a nest in the bilge pump outlet.

Maybe Vaseline. Would that wash itself out when you got under way? Incase you forgot to pull the golf tee

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I would think as hot as it gets in summer the Vaseline would melt out.

Just go fishing every day. Don't give them time to mud it up

That'll definitely fix it

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Originally Posted by DockShootinJack

I would think as hot as it gets in summer the Vaseline would melt out.

Just go fishing every day. Don't give them time to mud it up

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I stick a piece of weed eater line in mine.....if I forget to pull it out, it will blow out when I start the outboard.

A small piece of blue painters tape when you park it. I take it off when I plug the boat. It’s also on my “preflight” checklist I keep.

Those outboard engineers could put a small flap like on top of a tractor exhaust pipe to close that hole and stop all that condo building

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Those outboard engineers could put a small flap like on top of a tractor exhaust pipe to close that hole and stop all that condo building

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My dirt daubers are smart enough to lift the flap! :yikes

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Originally Posted by RMGeorge

My dirt daubers are smart enough to lift the flap! :yikes

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They would be unstoppable. They would figure out how to pull out the string.

If you fall into the rabbit hole of mud dauber studies. It takes a minute to get back out.
Seems they sting and kill many spiders including the black widow. Starlings and blackbirds are 2 species that eat dirt daubers.

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Originally Posted by "G"

I stick a piece of weed eater line in mine.....if I forget to pull it out, it will blow out when I start the outboard.

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we do this also, when I remove the transom saver I grab the line, place them together

All I can say is plug it before THEY DO...and dont forget to UNPLUG

Update. Took the ole Kenner for a ride last week and the stream was strong! No condo this time. Weed eater line really does work.

Thanks for the advice! Y'all are AWESOME!

Chris

That is good to know

A friend took a small piece of hardwood and carved a plug that was just a bit longer than needed. Drilled the excess and threaded a piece of string through it and tied it off nearby. Plugs it and forgets about it. When it blows out it stays tethered and isn’t super tight so it blows out easy.

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Originally Posted by BuckeyeCrappie

A small piece of blue painters tape when you park it. I take it off when I plug the boat. It’s also on my “preflight� checklist I keep.

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Agree and if you forget, it will fall off when the pressure hits it??*??


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a dab of grease on finger spot it on weep hole and no dobbers

[QUOTE=bvs123;4203001]a dab of grease on finger spot it on weep hole and no

That would work

WHITE lithium grease sprayed in the tube. It also keeps birds from building nests on boat dock. Also spray my battery terminals. No corrosion or daubers there either. Handy as WD 40.

Just had a thought.
I bet somebody has named a son "Dirt Dauber".
Why not? I had a friend that His Wife's uncle was "Kotch Hockarow", aunt's first name was "Eureatha", spelled with an "E". A married couple, yep, that's a fact!