How can I clean mildew of my vinyl seats on the boat?

Mildew that thrives in damp will only respond to neat heavy duty bleach on a DRY cloth...but this is going to mark or discolour whetever you do..I have seen mildew cleaners advertised but my experience is that once something is mildewed (either with the dry or wet varity) its for chucking. If it were my boat I would use the bleach. Dry thoroughly and then make or get some loose seat covers (car???) and either carpet squares, mats, or recarpet if posible

sally anne
November 2009