[C320-list] Bird Problem

[dprudden]

Tim, have you tried Gullsweeps yet? I had a bad problem, too, and tried a bunch of things including ultrasonic. No luck. Last winter, I bought 2- 3 foot Gullsweeps, mounted them in some plastic wood, attached Velcro straps to them and strapped them on my closed/covered Bimini. I also took some light line, tore strips of doggie poop bags and tied them to the line, then strung them from one backstay, around the mast and to the other backstay, with another small piece of line going between the backstays. I went from a huge mess to no bird poop AT ALL!!! (My neighbors boat didn't fare as well). 
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David Prudden
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> On Jan 1, 2015, at 3:27 PM, Timothy Osburn <tosburn1958 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I have a major bird problem on my boat.  The last two weekends, I had to
> haul buckets of water on deck ( because the marina water is turned off for
> the winter ) and scrub the decks to get the bird guano off. We're not
> talking about one or two unsightly little messes here.  We're talking about
> my boat looking like the Galapagos Islands.  Apparently, every migratory
> bird in North America on their way to their Florida condo's has stopped in
> and left the calling card on my decks.
> 
> Last weekend, I bought one of those stupid plastic owls and strung it up
> with the main halyard and tied it off so it was in the middle of the
> mainsail triangle area.  It made no difference and in fact, the boat looked
> worse this weekend then last weekend.
> 
> Short of opening up a guano factory and selling the stuff on eBay, does
> anyone have any ideas getting rid of these damn things?  Thanks.
> 
> BTW - the boat is on Kent Island in the the Chesapeake.