"John Cairns" wrote
| Assuming the things actually discourage them from sitting on the lifelines.
| Since I put these on, they don't appear to have come back. Nothing required
| to hang them, just flex and slip over the lifelines. Not only do they move
| in the breeze, they also slide on the lifelines in a breeze and help keep
| the spider webs at bay.
|
| http://sports.webshots.com/photo/717...31781966cIZLDB



For about three dollars I solved the problem of gulls, and those awful ospreys who sat
up there eating fish and dropping bones and guts down and other birds sitting on top of
the mast of my Tangerine (Elle Niño) and pooping all over it. One time the drain in the cockpit
got clogged with their droppings and the cockpit was full after a rain and water was getting
inside under the hatch door.

I got a hose clamp and a paint roller. I clamped the handle to the mast so the roller sits
horizontal about four inches above the mast top. When birds try to land there the roller spins
and their little feet slip right off. It was funny watching them trying to stay put. Now, they've
all given up. My cockpit and bimini stays poop-free. Maybe I should patent the idea?

Cheers,
Ellen