[Rhodes22-list] 3rd use for the table top

[Goodness]

Graham: This could be the phrase you will be forever known by!

"Dont say anything until you have checked the cockpit for racoons!"

I love it!!
Bob (palatka)
> On Sep 14, 2016, at 3:13 PM, Graham Stewart <gstewart8 at cogeco.ca> wrote:
> 
> Bob:
> 
> You don't have to be at the dock to be visited by racoons. Years ago I was
> anchored in a small bay in Georgian Bay. I was about 300' from shore and
> thought that it would be safe to leave a bag of garbage in the cockpit over
> night. In the middle of the night I was awaken from a deep sleep by the
> sound of water rushing into the boat. "We are sinking" I shouted as I jumped
> out of my bunk expecting to find myself standing in water. Nope. Dry as a
> bone. Assuming, logically,  that we had washed ashore and the sound was tree
> branches in the rigging I then shouted "We have lost the anchor and are in
> the trees". Meanwhile, my family were all awake and in a somewhat elevated
> state of alarm. I looked out into the cockpit and there staring back at me
> in a similar state of alarm was a racoon standing over the garbage bag. At
> this point the racoon decided that there was too much excitement on the boat
> for his liking and casually climbed down the boarding ladder and swam away. 
> 
> The moral of the story is don't leave the boarding ladder down when at
> anchor, don't assume racoons don't swim, don't leave anything a racoon might
> think is food in the cockpit and if you think you are sinking or washed
> ashore, don't say anything until you have checked for racoons in the
> cockpit. Your family will never let you live it down and will regale people
> with the story any time you try to impress them with stories of your
> exceptional seamanship.
> 
> 
> Graham Stewart
> Agile. R22, 1976
> Kingston Ontario Canada
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rhodes22-list [mailto:rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org] On Behalf Of
> rweiss
> Sent: September 14, 2016 12:09 PM
> To: rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org
> Subject: [Rhodes22-list] 3rd use for the table top
> 
> Thought I would share my experience with staying on the boat at the marina a
> couple weeks ago. The evening was a little warm and I was in my slip with
> shore power and my pop-top enclosure on, with the windows up so I could
> enjoy a little breeze through the screens. I left my Bimini up to protect
> the cockpit and because there was a very slight chance of rain in the night,
> I decided to take my table top off the cockpit pole and put it on the floor
> of the cockpit -- just to keep it out of direct rain. (Since I was staying
> by myself, I did not need it for the double bunk in the cabin.) About 3 am,
> I heard a "clunk" in the cockpit that woke me up. I stood up in the cabin
> and looked out the port screen in the enclosure and was face-to-face with a
> raccoon -- less than a few inches from my face. He jumped back onto the dock
> and retreated to a safe distance. Evidently, he had jumped into the cockpit
> looking for food and landed on the table top that essentially was a 360
> degree teeter totter because of the pole receptacle in the center of the
> underside. So, you can now also consider the table top a "Critter Alarm" if
> needed. Not sure what would have happened if I had not left the top there,
> as I'm sure he would have come right into the cabin! I put my hatch cover in
> place for the rest of the night and will probably do so in the future to
> ensure I don't have any uninvited guests while sleeping at the dock.
> 
> 
> 
> -----
> Bob Weiss
> Beach Spring
> 1998 Rhodes 22 Recycled in 2014
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