I've been asking myself the same question now for years :-) We're in a
slip on Harbor Island, and hear the same thing. Guess I have an answer now.

Keith Hughes

Falky foo wrote:
I happened to mention
the cracking and popping and he explained it was a biological noise - most
likely shrimp - and that I was only one of hundreds that had asked him

about

the noise over the years.

Eisboch




I guess it's a question as old as sailing itself.