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

[Chris Geankoplis]

Crafty! I wonder if it would work with people.  One of my favorite
books *Around
the World *by Slocum relates a method to keep the natives of Tierra del
Fuego.  He sprinkled tacks on the deck so when they sneaked aboard they
would let out "un-Christian oaths".  I imagine your raccoon did the same.

Chris G
Enosis


On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 12:08 PM, rweiss <rweiss at siu.edu> wrote:

> 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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