On Thursday, July 25, 2013 4:24:36 PM UTC-5, Sir Gregory Hall, Esq� wrote:
I've got a spare rowing dingy - a Dyer Dhow - besides

my little, motorized, fiberglass dinghy which I use primarily

because it's so light (45 pounds). After removing the

little 2.5HP Suzuki motor, I can lift it by hand, flip it

upside down and stow it on the custom pushpit I made

and installed on the transom of my fine blue water cruising

yacht, "Cut the Mustard". It is generally ill-advised to tow

a dinghy whilst sailing offshore and sometimes in

anchorages that have a lot of current it's a pain in the

butt to tie a dinghy off the stern as it often ends up alongside

where it bumps and bangs when wind is against current.



But, when I go off cruising for a few days or a week or

a month, I come back to a real mess on the moored

Dhow (It also keeps assholes from picking up my

mooring when I'm away) as the cormorants just love

to swim up to it, hop aboard and sun themselves. And,

of course, they relieve themselves copiously to boot.

What a freaking smelly mess they make. And, it's

not just one or two. I've seen up to eight of them on

the dinghy at one time before I ran their smelly asses

off. But they are persistent and they soon come right

back.



Well, I showed them! I went to the hardware store and

bought three, 8-foot wooden slats that I cut up into 2-foot

sections for a total of 12 each, 2-foot slats. These I screwed

vertically and spaced evenly onto the outside of the hull

using SS Phillips head screws and SS finishing washers.

Then I got out some 20-lb nylon fishing line I have in stock

and used it to string four rows of line about four inches apart

from deck level and up.



No cormorants have gotten aboard since I completed

the project. No more cleaning out stinky, smelly fresh

and dried cormorant ****! Sometimes I'm so smart

I even manage to impress myself.



Photos to follow.



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Sir Gregory

i used that method 30 yrs ago