Seal afloat

[Champagne Murphy]

Here we are lying in bed on the mooring (Orwell) when 15 minutes ago there's a splashing outside. So I go top sides with a torch and a seal is trying to get into the flubber. It doesn't like the torch so clears off. 5 mins later its done it again, risking upending the inflatable plus engine so I have to don my lifejacket, retrieve the engine and pull the dinghy part way up the transom to discourage it. In the dark. Oh, and the Admiral feels sorry for it.
There, got that off my chest.

 

[pioneer]

Kinda lucky that's all u had to get off ur chest!

 

[Champagne Murphy]

Yes, it did cross my mind that it might try to get in again while I was in the boat

 

[MikeBz]

We had one spend the night in our flubber at Pin Mill a few years ago:



Every time I tried to get a picture of him he slunk off. As soon as I went back down below he came back. I got up at first light and he was still there, now dry and fluffy, but he went before I could get a picture.

 

[PetiteFleur]

We had the same thing some years ago at Wrabness, we had our two grandchildren with us, 8 & 10, heard splashing at dusk,(Dom thought it was Pirates and immediately grabbed the bread knife to repel boarders!) went on deck but did not see anything except the grp dinghy was half full of water. I bailed it out and tied it alongside, thinking it had a leak. Next morning it was half full of water again so we went to Titchmarsh to pull it out for inspection. It was fine of course and then we found out that it had probably been a seal.

 

[Champagne Murphy]

As we came back today from the Stour we passed an upturned tender. Almost certainly the work of said miscreant.

 

[pyrojames]

I've had the same. The dinghy generally needs a good wash afterwards!

 

[Corribee Boy]

There's often a seal lying on the swimming platform of a small mobo at Wrabness: it sticks it's head below water now an again, presumably to see if anything's there, then slips in to go fishing.

It doesn't have very nice habits, though, and leaves sh1t all over the platform - and I thought seagulls were bad!

 

[Independence]

I think he / she is fondly known as Sammy to the locals.

Seems to particularly like inflatable dinghies ��

 

[PaulRainbow]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealskin

 

[rudolph_hart]

I think he / she is fondly known as Sammy to the locals.

Seems to particularly like inflatable dinghies ��

He/she has a namesake at West Mersea, so called because he/she could be Samantha or Samuel.

Very tame - the kids crabbing feed him/her.

 

[ex-Gladys]

The Mersea seal doesn't appear to invade inflatables...

 

[rudolph_hart]

The Mersea seal doesn't appear to invade inflatables...

Not yet....... There are dozens of RIBs on moorings only yards away from the end of the Hammerhead. Maybe when he/she gets a bit bigger?