Take all the food off the boat and wait a few days. Rats won't hang
around long if there isn't any food. They will even jump overboard and
swim ashore.

Doug
s/v Callista

"MLapla4120" wrote in message
...
Anybody out there know how to get rid of this unwanted and destructive
pest?
I've tried traps, poison, sticky mats. I can hear him/her at night. I
don't
really
know where he goes. That's part of the problem, because then, I could put
the traps at that location.
I have a sailboat and there is a space between the cabin and hull that
pretty
much goes all around the boat.
What worries me is the possibility that it's chewing or going to chew on
the hoses for the head, wires, or other important and expensive things.

napisal(a):
Take all the food off the boat and wait a few days. Rats won't hang
around long if there isn't any food. They will even jump overboard and
swim ashore.

No kidding?
--
Samotnik
www.zagle.org.pl - rejsy morskie

"Samotnik" wrote in message
...
napisal(a):
Take all the food off the boat and wait a few days. Rats won't hang
around long if there isn't any food. They will even jump overboard and
swim ashore.

No kidding?

Rats are very good swimmers. When I had some as pets, in a breeding
experiment, we'd take them into the lake with us. Quite happy, no alarm on
their part.

However, the open companionway and absence is also a good sign.

And, finally, for what it's worth, the *best* rat I had I caught and tamed.
Very sweet disposition and a marvelous mother. She was what started the
breeding experiment, as she was a brown Norwegian, and my others were hooded
(not show quality - typical pet store snake-food grade, rescued). She was an
adolescent when caught, because she didn't get pregnant for a couple of
months.

However, just so you don't get the wrong idea, no animals will be welcome
aboard our boat unless they are already - or are in the process of becoming
(as in fish) - food :{))

L8R

Skip and Lydia


--
Morgan 461 #2
SV Flying Pig
http://tinyurl.com/384p2

"And then again, when you sit at the helm of your little ship on a
clear night, and gaze at the countless stars overhead, and realize
that you are quite alone on a great, wide sea, it is apt to occur to
you that in the general scheme of things you are merely an
insignificant speck on the surface of the ocean; and are not nearly
so important or as self-sufficient as you thought you were. Which is
an exceedingly wholesome thought, and one that may effect a
permanent change in your deportment that will be greatly appreciated
by your friends." - James S. Pitkin