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Tired of cleaning comorant **** out of your dinghy???
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. -- Sir Gregory |
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