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"bowgus" wrote:

Should be an interesting thread :-)

So, any thoughts, suggestions, stories, advice, etc.
about having a cat on board?

Will my cats get seasick if I take them across the Pacific
in a 46' boat ?

If sea sickness is like drowning in your berth, possibly.

Livestock at sea should never be considered pets. You may lose her
to a wave, or need her as bait, if you cannot bear to eat her.

How would you go about MOB recovery with a cat in the water? A dip
net? a strobe light in the infra red? A cat lifejacket with a radio
beacon or parasitic responder with an rdf or radar on board? Good
luck. No hard feelings, you ask a tough question.

Recovery of a radar responder with a height above waterline of 3
inches and a radar ae 20 feet high suggests that you will see her
only when she is near a wave peak faceing you, but not too near. You
might see a strobe pointing to her. What percentage of the time
could this happen? Would you risk your life to rescue a cat?

You are playing with the black rainbow. Cats belong in the forest,
or the rat infested bilge, never on deck, unless you have a
particularily smart cat and cat high life nets good enough to catch
a shuffleboard puck.

Cats get used to being at sea, like people. Or, they die, or wish
they could. When you eventually get hungry enough to eat bugs,
seasickness fades.

I have a friend who's cat will not go outdoors without her halter
harness and leash. Some cats will die trying to remove any such
harness, epirb lifejacket or not. Go figure.

Terry K