Navigating Cats

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It is well known that if removed from one home to a new one, a cat will, unless butter is put on its paws, always find its way back again.

Has anyone any experience with navigating boats with cats or know how its done?

John

<hr width=100% size=1>I am the cat but I am only 6.
 
Oscar, second ship's cat on Roaring Girl, loves to sit on the helmsperson's lap. This is immensely irritating unless in the calmest of seas but he loves to be there. Crew's lap will not do. This applies whoever is helming or crewing. He also always knows as soon as we enter a river or a harbour and immediately demands to be fed.

He's not very good at tidal heights though and always gets his reicprocal bearings wrong.

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Seems not many know much about navigating cats.

Ships Cat mostly navigates from the chart table seat but I haven't worked out how he does it with his eyes closed yet. Other times he does it from the top companionway step, with eyes open, and snarls at anyone who wants to get past.

John

<hr width=100% size=1>I am the cat but I am only 6.
 
I'll navigate any cat up a tree or a mast for that matter in under three seconds.


grrrrrrrr.

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You wouldn't have wanted to meet the cat our family had when I was much younger. Though small, terrorised the big toms in the neighbourhood - lightening fast. Once saw off two dobermans that came pounding up while we were putting a Labrador into the car - streak of lightening over a 2 foot high wall and hit the first dog slap in it's rib cage, the second didn't even look backwards /forums/images/icons/laugh.gif The cat hated the lab, but he was family after all!

On another occasion, was seen riding an Alsatian out of the road accompanied by his mate. The owner could never understand when out walking these two dogs later, why the dogs would no longer enter the road! <g>

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The only reason they cant find their way home with butter on their paws is the poor little buggers keep falling over. Anyway I keep telling you my son that cats navigate better than monohulls...... You are just not listening to me are you???

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Our cat, Pickles, also is very interested in chart work. Se picture below.

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See also: Pickles' homepage: The Alacrity website <A target="_blank" HREF=http://alacrity.webhop.org/>http://alacrity.webhop.org/
 
But how come you have a cat named after a bird? Perhaps because Snow Geese are pretty good navigators too?

A bird we get here is the Bar Tailed Godwit and that migrates back and forwards between NZ and Alaska/Siberia over the Pacific Ocean - around 6,000 nm and supposedly the longest non stop migration of any bird (but not the longest migration with stops of any bird). I think the same bird gets to West Europe as well.

Ships Cat now wants a web site like Pickles has - I haven't even got a web site so he sure isn't getting one and he has gone away to sulk. But he will find his way home again - smell of food does it I think.

John

<hr width=100% size=1>I am the cat but I am only 6.
 
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