[C320-list] Bird Problem

[Scott Westwood]

Try these articles.  Other people's comments:  Pretty much the same.....
 
http://www.boatus.com/seaworthy/birds/
 
 


Scott Westwood
 
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 From: Timothy Osburn <tosburn1958 at gmail.com>
To: C320-List at catalina320.com 
Sent: Friday, January 2, 2015 7:08 AM
Subject: Re: [C320-list] Bird Problem
  

Thanks to everyone for the suggestions.

David - did you use the 'spider' type of gullsweep or the other kind?


On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 3:37 PM, dprudden <dprudden at comcast.net> wrote:

> 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).
>
>
>
> David Prudden
> #787
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > 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.
>
>