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

[Stan Spitzer]

I will top that from boat show first hand (almost single handed) experience:

"Don't put your  hand in the lazaret until you checked for raccoons".

Or for that matter, into an upper coaming compartment shelf; unless you 
need some eggs for breakfast.  (Of course, if you only eat organic eggs, 
there is always an Organic Foods Market.

stan


On 9/14/16 3:32 PM, Lowe, Rob wrote:
> Graham,
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> "don't say anything until you have checked for raccoons in the cockpit"
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> Words of wisdom we should all take to heart!  I laughed the whole way through your recollection.  Can't wait until you get you boat in the water so you experience new tales to relate.  How does the family retell the story these days?  - rob
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> Rob Lowe
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> From: Rhodes22-list [mailto:rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org] On Behalf Of Graham Stewart
> Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2016 3:13 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] 3rd use for the table top
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> Bob:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Graham Stewart
> Agile. R22, 1976
> Kingston Ontario Canada
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> -----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
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> 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.
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> Bob Weiss
> Beach Spring
> 1998 Rhodes 22 Recycled in 2014
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