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.