[Rhodes22-list] Sailing related? Question for Bill Effros? Seagulls?

[Herb Parsons]

There was a boat at Oak Harbour in Slidell that had an interesting 
"solution" (I can't verify it worked, but I never saw any birds on his 
boat).

He had about a half dozen rubber snakes of various sizes. He attached a 
fishing line to the head of each snake, and a compact disk on the other 
end of the line. He tossed the line over various pieces of rigging so 
that when the wind blew, it lifted the snakes head, giving it the 
appearance of motion.


Bill Effros wrote:
> Thanks, Ed,
>
> I'm the one.  (Actually my big problem is Ospreys.)
>
> The last time I went out to my boat I passed a boat with a gullsweep on 
> it.  Just outside the circle made by the gullsweep sat a gull, taking a 
> crap on the Bimini, with its head moving in a circular pattern as it 
> watched the gullsweep go round and round.
>
> I used to fly a lot of kites, and am looking to kite solutions now.  
> I've started flying kites from the boat -- challenging until you work 
> out the rigging problems, but a lot of fun.  I've rigged a halyard with 
> loops to fly mini kites with annoying long tails.  They will always flap 
> toward the top of the mast when there is any wind at all.  We'll have to 
> see if they get fouled in the rigging or not.  After that I go to bird 
> spikes.
>
> As soon as the weather clears I'll try the pan head screw solution to 
> the broken jib sail loop problem.  It looks good to me -- we'll see.
>
> Slim,
>
> I used your Mast Lowering notes to good purpose.  Thanks.  I haven't 
> raised or lowered the mast in 2 years, so I get very out of practice.  
> Following your notes, there were people on the ground applauding the 
> result.  (Literally.)  Thanks.  I think I've finally got the procedure 
> straight in my mind.  I had been over-complicating it.
>
> BE.
>
>
>
>
>
> Tootle wrote:
>   
>> Bill,
>>
>> Were you the one with the seagull problems?  A company in New Jersey near
>> you has the solution:
>>
>> http://www.gullsweep.com/?gclid=CJaKq_rjx5UCFQphswodM1AyiA
>>
>> Ed K
>> Greenville, SC, USA
>> attachment:
>> http://www.nabble.com/file/p19350008/Pundits.gif Pundits.gif 
>>   
>>     
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