Third day of Christmas: Clean boat steps

Until you clean and drain, you never know what's really in the nooks and crannies of your boat.. like weeds in your boat motor. Photo: Wisconsin DNR.

Until you clean and drain, you never know what’s really in the nooks and crannies of your boat.. like what lies in the weeds in your boat motor. Photo: Wisconsin DNR.

Editor’s Note: It’s an Echo tradition to revisit one of our favorite holiday stories: Tim Campbell’s The Twelve Days of Aquatic Invasive Species Christmas.

Campbell rewrote the lyrics of the holiday tune for the Wisconsin Sea Grant in 2011.  We’re publishing a new verse on each of the actual twelve days of Christmas.

On the third day of Christmas, a freighter sent to me…

Three clean boat steps — Clean. Drain. Dry. Follow those three simple steps to stop aquatic hitchhikers.

Two red swamp crayfish, a
nd a carp barrier in the city!

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