"Lloyd Sumpter" wrote in message
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Hi,

I'm thinking of taking out 1-yr-old cat "Kitty" on board
Far Cove next
year (Maybe this winter, I donno...) She's been indoors all
her life,
except a few times outside on a leash. And then she tends to
hide under
whatever's handy...

We cruised with our cat which at the time was about 10 weeks
old. For the first week she had the fwd cabin gated off with her
litterbox and feed dishes. By the second week, she was all over
the boat. I have seen some cruisers, while at anchor, hang
something like carpet runners on each quarter to give kitty
something to swim to and get back aboard. A friend had several
2" lines knotted every few inches dropped in the water as a
climbing aid. We never had to worry as the cat didn't venture
out of the pilot house. Although we spent several hours at
Daytona looking for her and thought she might have gone
overboard. The boat was searched top to bottom in all of the
spaces, including engine compartment and lazerettes as the were
accessible from the engine compartment, but after a while, we
heard a meow and finally found her under the galley sink up
behind the ice box. After what she put us through, I could
thrown her over the side myself.

Leanne
s/v Fundy

"Leanne" wrote in :

We cruised with our cat which at the time was about 10 weeks
old.

My friends Dan and Kay have a striped orange tomcat that's mean as sin.
He bites, HARD. When they had the Hatteras 56, he used to sit atop the
main helm right over the opening where the spiral companionway came up
from the galley and staterooms below. When your head ascended the
stairs, he'd try to jump on top of you and bite your head!

He doesn't mess with Dan. I don't wanna know why not....(c;

I took his overhead compartment over the main helm apart and completely
rewired the last owner's wad of balled-up cables, installed a new breaker
panel in the port side of it to safely service all the radios, lights,
sonar, radar, etc. that were all strapped with regular lamp cord to a 50A
breaker in the panel. We had to confine that damned cat to the forward
head while I was working up there because he wedged himself into the
partially dropped down panel twice and attacked me once, leaving my arm
bleeding at the claw marks. By that time, I was for leaving him inside
the panel and just closing it back up with him inside. Kay didn't think
that would be a good idea. He's still vicious at their house in Mt
Pleasant. If he heads in your direction sitting on a couch...watch out!

He also attacked me when I was in the A/C-Generator house under the
galley deck on my knees because its low down there in the bilge. I had
the drawings for the 20KW diesel Onan genset laid out tracing the wiring
someone had screwed around with to the panel at the main helm and he
slipped, quietly around the end of the genset and just clawed hell out of
my left calf, causing me to bang my head on the overhead....damned cat.

You were safe in the engine rooms with the 8V92TAs running. I don't
think he liked the NOISE of the 2-stroke beasts.

Larry wrote:
"Leanne" wrote in :


We cruised with our cat which at the time was about 10 weeks
old.


My friends Dan and Kay have a striped orange tomcat that's mean as sin.
He bites, HARD. When they had the Hatteras 56, he used to sit atop the
main helm right over the opening where the spiral companionway came up
from the galley and staterooms below. When your head ascended the
stairs, he'd try to jump on top of you and bite your head!

He doesn't mess with Dan. I don't wanna know why not....(c;

I took his overhead compartment over the main helm apart and completely
rewired the last owner's wad of balled-up cables, installed a new breaker
panel in the port side of it to safely service all the radios, lights,
sonar, radar, etc. that were all strapped with regular lamp cord to a 50A
breaker in the panel. We had to confine that damned cat to the forward
head while I was working up there because he wedged himself into the
partially dropped down panel twice and attacked me once, leaving my arm
bleeding at the claw marks. By that time, I was for leaving him inside
the panel and just closing it back up with him inside. Kay didn't think
that would be a good idea. He's still vicious at their house in Mt
Pleasant. If he heads in your direction sitting on a couch...watch out!

He also attacked me when I was in the A/C-Generator house under the
galley deck on my knees because its low down there in the bilge. I had
the drawings for the 20KW diesel Onan genset laid out tracing the wiring
someone had screwed around with to the panel at the main helm and he
slipped, quietly around the end of the genset and just clawed hell out of
my left calf, causing me to bang my head on the overhead....damned cat.

You were safe in the engine rooms with the 8V92TAs running. I don't
think he liked the NOISE of the 2-stroke beasts.



A spray bottle filled with cool water should mellow that wildcat down.

Don White wrote:
A spray bottle filled with cool water should mellow that wildcat down.

Better yet, a dilute of ammonia and water...or straight vinegar.

--
Peggie
----------
Peggie Hall
Specializing in marine sanitation since 1987
Author "Get Rid of Boat Odors - A Guide To Marine Sanitation Systems and
Other Sources of Aggravation and Odor"
http://www.seaworthy.com/store/custo...0&cat=6&page=1
http://shop.sailboatowners.com/books...ku=90&cat=1304

Don White wrote in
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A spray bottle filled with cool water should mellow that wildcat down.


Naw....I'm aboard someone else's boat, he's buying beer and a few
thousand gallons of diesel and taking me on a trip. I can put up with
Charlie's cat attacks....(c;

I miss that boat. There was plenty of electrical and mechanical things
to make weekends a lot of fun. I caused some distress, once in a while,
like when I came up from the bilge declaring we needed THREE banks of
expensive 8V odd batteries for the 32V train electrics "down here". I'd
hate to think I was partially why they sold her. Hell, I had just about
all the systems running smoothly by then....twin water pumps, twin diesel
gensets, 5 water-cooled air conditioners, helm and flybridge electronics
and electrical systems, TV cable system, even the Cuisinart food
processor built into the galley counter top...all worked. Fixed the
electronic controls to the Naiad hydraulic roll control system, too.
That was great to have. But, God what a constant expense to keep it all
running, even with the free labor....

Larry wrote:

Don White wrote in
:



A spray bottle filled with cool water should mellow that wildcat down.



Naw....I'm aboard someone else's boat, he's buying beer and a few
thousand gallons of diesel and taking me on a trip. I can put up with
Charlie's cat attacks....(c;

I miss that boat. There was plenty of electrical and mechanical things
to make weekends a lot of fun. I caused some distress, once in a while,
like when I came up from the bilge declaring we needed THREE banks of
expensive 8V odd batteries for the 32V train electrics "down here". I'd
hate to think I was partially why they sold her. Hell, I had just about
all the systems running smoothly by then....twin water pumps, twin diesel
gensets, 5 water-cooled air conditioners, helm and flybridge electronics
and electrical systems, TV cable system, even the Cuisinart food
processor built into the galley counter top...all worked. Fixed the
electronic controls to the Naiad hydraulic roll control system, too.
That was great to have. But, God what a constant expense to keep it all
running, even with the free labor....


Tell us about the water cooled air conditioners, please!

Terry K

On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 12:30:41 -0400, Terry Spragg
wrote:

Tell us about the water cooled air conditioners, please!

===========================================

What do you want to know? They are fairly common on power boats where
you've got enough power to run things like that. My trawler has 4
water cooled air conditioners with reverse cycle heating, 2 water
cooled refrigeration units, and a water cooled freezer. Fortunately I
have a neighbor here in FL that knows how to keep it all running. :-)
The fridges and freezer have individual circulating pumps for their
condensing units (small gas/water heat exchanger coils), and the A/Cs
are all driven from one large circulating pump similar to what you
would use for a swimming pool filtration system.

Wayne.B wrote:
On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 12:30:41 -0400, Terry Spragg
wrote:


Tell us about the water cooled air conditioners, please!


===========================================

What do you want to know? They are fairly common on power boats where
you've got enough power to run things like that. My trawler has 4
water cooled air conditioners with reverse cycle heating, 2 water
cooled refrigeration units, and a water cooled freezer. Fortunately I
have a neighbor here in FL that knows how to keep it all running. :-)
The fridges and freezer have individual circulating pumps for their
condensing units (small gas/water heat exchanger coils), and the A/Cs
are all driven from one large circulating pump similar to what you
would use for a swimming pool filtration system.


What mechanism provides the cold?

Do you have an airconditioner pump, evaporator and condenser to cool
recirculated water?

I was twigged when you indicated water cooled A/C, and was hoping
your system used cool sea water to provide modest cooling to the
cabin, with no power needed to actually chill the water.

Guess not.

Thanks,

Terry K