[Rhodes22-list] My Rhodes pigeon coop....

Fri Mar 21 14:32:50 EDT 2014

It started out as "duct tape".  Now we know why it changed names.

Rick

On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 11:41 AM, Mary Lou Troy <mtroy at atlanticbb.net>wrote:

> Behind those side pockets/coaming boxes there is indeed a space
> between the upper side of the lazarette wall and the coaming/aft deck.
>
> Many, many moons ago (2006? 2007?) I posted this tale. Though our fix
> is no longer in place we haven't had any further problems. I thought
> I would repost the tale to save me a search of the archives. Here's the
> tale:
>
> When we moved Fretless to the Eastern Shore 6 or 7 years ago, it was
> the first time we had kept the boat in a slip. We had made the
> commitment and were determined to get a lot of use out of the boat.
> We got her all settled in the slip one weekend and went away for the
> week. We came back the next weekend, planning to spend the weekend on
> the boat. We schlepped our stuff down the dock and stowed it all
> away, went off to have dinner at a restaurant in town, came back and
> sat out in the cockpit for a while.
>
> Some time later, we put up the poptop enclosure, made up the berth in
> the cabin and turned in. I heard noises like someone walking on deck.
> I told myself I was imagining things. I heard more noises. I nudged
> Fred awake (he's next to the companionway). He didn't hear anything
> (he's somewhat deaf). He looked out and didn't see anything. I went
> back to sleep. I heard the noise again. And again. I nudged Fred
> awake. This time he was nice enough to get up and take a look around.
> He didn't see anything. We went back to bed and to sleep.
>
> The next morning I fixed a nice breakfast and we are sitting in the
> cockpit with our orange juice and our mugs of tea sitting on the
> cockpit table. We heard a scrambling sound from the area of the
> lazarette. We looked at each other. We turned the table so that Fred
> can get to the lazarette. He cautiously opened the lid and let it
> fall right back down. "There's a duck in there!" "A duck?" "A duck!"
> We finished our breakfast contemplating how to get a duck out of the
> lazarette.
>
> We cleaned up breakfast and looked in the lazarette. The duck was in
> amongst various lines, pfds and the anchor looking rather frightened.
> We decided to leave the lid of the lazarette propped open to see if
> the duck would leave on its own. We propped the lid and left.
>
> We came back to the boat and the duck was gone having left us a duck
> egg as a present. No nest or crud, just the egg. Then we started to
> try to figure out how the duck got into the lazarette and we made a
> discovery about the boat that we had owned for 3 years. The underside
> of gunnels are open to the lazarette. Somehow the duck had figured
> out how to go under the bench seats and up under the gunnels into the
> lazarrette.
>
> Having figured out how the duck got into the lazarrette, we had to
> figure out how to keep the duck out of the lazarrette. Off we  went
> to the hardware store to buy some screening and some ...(drum roll
> please) ..... duck tape.
>
> Taped the screening over the openings and ended our duck problem.
>
> Can't say what happened to the egg.
>
>
>
> At 11:09 AM 3/21/2014, you wrote:
> >Thanks but moved my boat to South Shore...no more problem
> >On Mar 21, 2014 10:43 AM, "Lowe, Rob" <rlowe at vt.edu> wrote:
> >
> > > Chris,
> > > The side pockets usually have a coaming box in them?  Similar to:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> http://www.ebay.com/itm/GLASTRON-0322270-WHITE-27-1-4-X-8-1-2-X-7-IN-PLASTIC-BOAT-STORAGE-COAMING-BOX-/190720349884?_trksid=p2054897.l4276
> > >
> > > that might stop them #@#$ pigeons.   Then again, I hear pigeons make
> good
> > > eating!!?? - rob
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org [mailto:
> > > rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org] On Behalf Of Chrissailorman
> > > Sent: Friday, March 21, 2014 10:13 AM
> > > To: rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org
> > > Subject: [Rhodes22-list] My Rhodes pigeon coop....
> > >
> > > I had just launched my Rhodes 22 in Mount Sinai harbor the day before
> and
> > > tied up to a slip temporarily before moving to my mooring spot... Upon
> > > boarding I thought I could hear pigeons... The sound was coming from
> the
> > > rear of the boat... Seemingly from inside the lazarette...How could
> this
> > > be? I opened the cover and almost fell over as two pigeons flew out!!
> Now
> > > how in the world did they get in there? The next day when I returned
> to do
> > > some more work on the boat...guess what? They were back! A
> mystery...but
> > > easily solved. It turns out that the side pockets under the winches are
> > > open to the bilge from the top, inside... Pigeons must have been
> attracted
> > > to the pockets to roost...and somehow  they found their way into the
> bilge
> > > and then to the lazarette.... All I can say is, it was a good thing it
> was
> > > only one day between visits....or the mystery would have been....what
> is
> > > that smell!   Solution? Cover or fill up those pockets or I'm gonna
> have
> > > some dead pigeons aboard!
> > >
> > > Chris G.
> > > 1986 Rhodes 22
> > > Long Island, NY
> > > Sent from my iPad
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