Hey guys,

As the title clearly states I have a small but growing population of ants residing in my bassboat. Unfortunately for me where I park my rig it is right over a sandy stretch with numerous  ant hills. Now these are not carpenter ants or fire ants or anything like that just small tiny ants that you commonly see in the sand on the side of the road. I know exactly how they got in. They followed the extension cord up and onto the boat. The extension cord being warm from it drawing electricity to power my onboard charger. So it looks like in the near future I'm going to have to empty the contents of the boat and set off a few Ant bombs. Short of that does any one have any suggestions to remedy this problem?

I'd get some type of treatment and treat the whole area around the boat to get rid of the source.  For those in the boat you can buy those little houses they crawl into or you can get some Home Defense and spray where they crawl.

treat the area around it and put ant traps in the boat.good luck.

had the same problem with my 14 footer. put those ant traps in the boat. don't skimp put a few in evey compartment. now the hard part the cord. the rain will wash this away some times, but it works very well.

get a dixie cup. cut a hole in it and run the cord though it so if your holding the end of the cord the cup is upside down. find a spot on the cord where the cut is hangging in the air ( not touching the boat or ground) then tape the hole close ( I used duct tape)

flip the cup over and spray the inside with spray glue, or rub elmers glue on the inside of the cup. then fill the cup with hot pepper ( I used cayenne pepper) dump out the extra pepper ( try to save it for future use) the pepper will stick to the sides of the cup. ants will not cross over the pepper so they can not come in that way anymore.

Mutiple bombs the only way to get them out, but it will only be temporary unless you move the boat.

my father inlaw has the same problem where he is...

after bombing the boat and geting it cleared of existing ants...he knows ties a rag sprayed with ant killer on his extension cord when he charges the boat.