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...

So, any thoughts, suggestions, stories, advice, etc. about having a cat
on board? She's "toilet-trained" meaning she uses a toilet rather than a
litterbox, so I suspect I can easily train her to use the head (but I'd
have to flush it!). My Lady wants me to get her a PFD, but I suspect some
kind of "kitty-overboard" flag would be more useful?

Lloyd Sumpter
"Far Cove" Catalina 36

Should be an interesting thread :-)

So, any thoughts, suggestions, stories, advice, etc. about having a cat
on board?

"bowgus" wrote:
Should be an interesting thread :-)

So, any thoughts, suggestions, stories, advice, etc.
about having a cat on board?

Will my cats get seasick if I take them across the Pacific
in a 46' boat ?

wrote:
"bowgus" wrote:

Should be an interesting thread :-)


So, any thoughts, suggestions, stories, advice, etc.
about having a cat on board?


Will my cats get seasick if I take them across the Pacific
in a 46' boat ?

If sea sickness is like drowning in your berth, possibly.

Livestock at sea should never be considered pets. You may lose her
to a wave, or need her as bait, if you cannot bear to eat her.

How would you go about MOB recovery with a cat in the water? A dip
net? a strobe light in the infra red? A cat lifejacket with a radio
beacon or parasitic responder with an rdf or radar on board? Good
luck. No hard feelings, you ask a tough question.

Recovery of a radar responder with a height above waterline of 3
inches and a radar ae 20 feet high suggests that you will see her
only when she is near a wave peak faceing you, but not too near. You
might see a strobe pointing to her. What percentage of the time
could this happen? Would you risk your life to rescue a cat?

You are playing with the black rainbow. Cats belong in the forest,
or the rat infested bilge, never on deck, unless you have a
particularily smart cat and cat high life nets good enough to catch
a shuffleboard puck.

Cats get used to being at sea, like people. Or, they die, or wish
they could. When you eventually get hungry enough to eat bugs,
seasickness fades.

I have a friend who's cat will not go outdoors without her halter
harness and leash. Some cats will die trying to remove any such
harness, epirb lifejacket or not. Go figure.

Terry K

"kitty" is its name? how original.
heres my advice, give it the boot, watch it sail thru the air into the
drink and have a good belly laugh.

animals have no business aboard a proper vessel unless its for human
consumption.

bob, friend to cap. neal and like minded fellows of the sea. wrote:
"kitty" is its name? how original.
heres my advice, give it the boot, watch it sail thru the air into the
drink and have a good belly laugh.

animals have no business aboard a proper vessel unless its for human
consumption.


No self respecting 'Kitty' (feline or female) would be caught dead on a
mustard yellow Coronado.

bowgus wrote:
Should be an interesting thread :-)


So, any thoughts, suggestions, stories, advice, etc. about having a cat
on board?



I like a pussy on board. I helps make the day more relaxing.

"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.