How Do You Store Your dinghy Away From Mice?

[Zagato]

I'm terrified of keeping mine in the garage or sheds I have due to the rodent problem. I have to keep mine in the car, porch or kitchen so it doesn't get chewed. I have thought about suspending it from the garage rafters but these mice seem to be able climb anything and we have just bought hamsters for the kids who are chewing through our wires, carpets and us. One of the bloody things bit me last night Where's the shovel

 

[mersey]

I'm terrified of keeping mine in the garage or sheds I have due to the rodent problem.

Ultrasonic mouse deterrent, £3.95

http://www.primrose.co.uk/ultrasonic-mouse-control-400-plug-single-room-p-170.html

 

[VicS]

One of these

 

[huldah]

Over wintering squirrels love making a nest out of control lines, and queen wasps love boat covers. In the spring, if you carry the cover in the car, they wake up as soon as you put the heater on. No joke trying to drive with two angry queens.

 

[Sailingsaves]

I'm terrified of keeping mine in the garage or sheds I have due to the rodent problem. I have to keep mine in the car, porch or kitchen so it doesn't get chewed. I have thought about suspending it from the garage rafters but these mice seem to be able climb anything and we have just bought hamsters for the kids who are chewing through our wires, carpets and us. One of the bloody things bit me last night Where's the shovel

Had success with ultrasonic things after trying many other methods.

I'd still be tempted to find a large plastic of metal box - or maybe a wheely bin?

Or store where currently do but put newspapers some distance away and they usually go for that instead - mate used to store his sails with newspaper inside and paper was chewed and not sails.

 

[ffiill]

Leave it on the boat-several years ago I left my mainsail at home in the garage-it now has half a dozen neat patched up little holes in it.
Luckily the mice didnt like the taste!
My worst experience of these creatures was when despite having 3 resident cats the mice took a liking to our bathroom waste pipes which run some distance under the floor above our hallway.First thing we knew about it was when water started pooring through the ceiling and I had to remove a piece of ceiling to access the pipes-chewed through in one place and almost through in several others!

 

[Ariadne]

Why can't leave it on the boat?

 

[sarabande]

suspend the dinghy from ropes and put rat guards on them.

http://www.ybw.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-291331.html



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[Fantasie 19]

One of these

Or better still, two of them... either that or leave it on the boat?

 

[Jamesuk]

One of these

+1

 

[vyv_cox]

I bought a large plastic container from Homebase, it's intended for storing garden furniture like chairs, parasols, etc. Holds several sails, flexible water tanks, etc. Completely closed at the bottom with a lifting lid.

 

[nimbusgb]

I'd be more concerned about the rodent problem than the dinghy. Particularly if you have kids!

 

[Leighb]

Why can't leave it on the boat?

+1, we leave ours there as nowhere to keep it at home anyway.

Mice will eat most things, my old Volvo 240 started getting difficult to start, and on investigation I found the little b****s had nibbled holes in all the plug leads! I was surprised it had started at all.

 

[northwind]

+1, we leave ours there as nowhere to keep it at home anyway.

Kind of difficult if you boat lives on a swinging mooring

 

[David2452]

No joke trying to drive with two angry queens.

Indeed, I gave a lift to a couple some weeks ago to see Mama Mia, we were late and they were not happy at all.

 

[Zagato]

Kind of difficult if you boat lives on a swinging mooring

Yes, the main use for my inflatable.

Sorry Vic's but if I had a cat I would have to buy a dog to stop the damn thing ****ting all over my kitchen

 

[vyv_cox]

I think this is the box I have. http://www.homebase.co.uk/webapp/wc...ay?langId=110&storeId=10151&partNumber=793841. The implication is that it can be left outdoors but mine is in the garage. We get many field mice in there but the box contents are undamaged. Well, they were when I last looked.

 

[Leighb]

Kind of difficult if you boat lives on a swinging mooring

I appreciate the problem.

 

[Searush]

I had one damaged a few years back, I reckon the problem was that the salt on it attracted them. Try rinsing it with fresh water.

 

[NormanS]

Mine spends the winter, fully inflated, and suspended from the garage roof. Until I read this thread, I'd never even thought about mice, but hopefully, they'd have bother getting their little jaws round an inflated dinghy. I hope.