20ft CC/Squirrel home

SC204 · #1 10-25-2004, 05:24 PM

To all those who store your boats for the winter,here's a funny story.I store my boat in my brothers barn every winter on the south shore of Massachusetts.I took the boat to get repowered this past spring.I got a phone call from the boat yard saying that a squirrel jumped out of the foward rod holders in the bow scaring the crap out of the guy.After some coaxing with sunflower seeds they managed to trap on or two on the deck with more in the hull.After the baiting no longer worked they stuck a hose in the hull and flooded them out.They pulled a total of SIX squirrels out of my boat.I will be shrink wrapping all openings this winter!!!!!!!!!!!!! As should you.... [img]/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img]

ScottM · #2 10-25-2004, 05:51 PM

This "squirrel on boats" thing seems to be quite popular this season. I read a post over on THT about a squirrel climbing the mooring line up to a guy's boat in Weymouth. Another guy on flyfishsaltwaters.com told a story about a mink that terrorized some beachgoers in Cohasset, then jumped in the water, swam out to a boat, ran around the boat and swam back to shore.

What's up with the rodents on the south shore this year? [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

ocuyler · #3 10-25-2004, 06:53 PM

That reminds me of the time I met some lifelong buddies in Myrtle Beach for some golf. We got to the first tee on day one and we were getting ready to play. My buddy, Larry, dumped his bag upside down looking for golf balls (God knows, we needed them) and a family of mice (Momma and 5 little Mickeys) came tumbling out. They acted very annoyed as the scrambled for cover under the cart. All Larry could manage was "well, that shows you how little I've played. I'm gonna need more strokes".

The moral of the story is that if you have a family of squirls living in your boat and you don't know about it, you need to spend more time on the boat. Simple.

Abe's Rocket · #4 10-26-2004, 08:53 AM

In college, i ran the waterfront at a small yc in Maine. On more then one occassion people would go out to there boats and find raccoons in their cockpits.

Rufridr069 · #5 10-26-2004, 11:06 AM

You just better hope there wasn't 8 of them in there.

elpez · #6 11-01-2004, 03:40 PM

Five years ago we were loading our 20 Seacraft cc for a week trip to the keys, I saw the cat (Grunt) running around the deck but she always did that so no problems. Leave around 10:00 in 90 degree weather, drive down to Key Colony but decide to stop at the World Wide Sportsman for lures, 45 minutes later we are back on the road and get home and settled in around 2:00 pm I'm getting ready to launch the boat and I hear a faint scratching sound in the hull, stick my head through the holes for the rods and see this cat wedged between the inner and outer hulls, clearly dehydrated with a glazed look in her eyes. Ended up using a rod to poke her out through the rear storage area where the oil reservoir is. Over 4 hours in 100 +/- degree heat. needless to say kitty spent a great week in the keys having her fill of fresh fish. For some reason will not go near the boat????