Our Feathered Friends

[brianhumber]

Here in Chichester, our fine feathered friends seem to have been more than active this Autumn using Ronhilda as a perch. As well as the usual fish bones, blackberry seeds etc I have had small round stones, fish scales, various other seeds and empty corn pods. At least my wind direction vane is not bent over 90degrees this year.
I do not really want to go down down the route of a yacht just downstream which has a dead trapped Cormarant in its rigging, but 90mins of scrubbing Ronhildas decks this Sunday before taking her around for liftout was not amusing. Still the potter down the harbour was peaceful enough, splendid isolation apart from three others and the usual Hayling SC race melee around the Fishery SC mark.
Here's to more sailing next year as this year was restricted due to work

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[Rabbie]

Last week in Girt Rythe I had much the same debris in my cockpit Brian, together with the usual heavy deposits on everything topside. However, I hope I may have, at last, found the deterrent, in the shape of 2 'scarers' from a garden centre. One is a small plastic Golden Eagle! and the other a blackbird. They have 'revolving' wings which spin even in light winds and make a bit of a racket. I have left them hoisted one each side of the spreaders where I think the buggers roost. Won't help my newly bent Windex, but will let you know if they are successful.
Rab.

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[ParaHandy]

Rabbie
if i had a £1 for every bloke who's got the magic cure to keep the little b*ggers away, i'd no be writing this twaddle .... best of luck orra the same

there's a geezer along from me who must be a taxidermist. he's more variety of stuffed birds than are in a zoo and all them just provide a perch for them to sit and cr*p ..... i can hear them laughing their beaks off ....

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[jonjo]

At Hamble Point the brokers use silver colour plastic strips that whip around in a breeze and make a noise.

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[ParaHandy]

Re: 3 months later ...

"oh look, sir, not even the birds are interested in your boat" .....

sort of decoration that a boat owning morris dancer would have!!??
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[jonjo]

Re: 3 months later ...

> not even the birds are interested in your boat

It is instructive to pass by every 3 months and note what is/is not selling. It seems many yachts there are trade-ins where the broker holds title but even this does not lead to rational asking prices.

> sort of decoration that a boat owning morris dancer would have!!??

Funny you mention that, when I first saw this twirling cacophony in action during a strong breeze I thought it was a promotional gimmick for a mid summer sales push!

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[Sybarite]

Touch wood, but this a problem I have never encountered in France. It must be something to do with French food...

John

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[ccscott49]

Does the dead cormorant work? If so why not? Thats what I did in Dartmouth, not a cormorant, but a seagull (flying rat), shot the B......d myself and hung it in the rigging, no more seagull poo on my boat! I would have set up a flak barrage to stop my boat looking like most of the others down there. It`s the tourists, they feed them! Same as Padstow. I ask you!!

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[ParaHandy]

starling pie, monsieur? very fresh and shot this morning ... !!

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[Rabbie]

'Hope springs eternal' as the saying goes - especially when each visit to your beloved brings an hour of filth cleaning. In our small creek, most boats are extensively fouled but the few that are relatively 'clean' have no particular embellishments to keep the crappers away!. But if my gizmos do the trick at last, it will be 'chust sublime'!.

<hr width=100% size=1>The line between balls and lunacy is very thin.