[C320-list] Bent wind instrument

[Guy Smith]

Hey Troy!
After anchoring up with you and Kim on Saturday night behind Heart-Miller and then anchoring in Still Pond on Sunday night,I attracted enough spiders up to the mast head around the Anchor light that the wind speed cups are "tied up" with spider webbing!I've had this happen before and the cups will clear eventually with enough wind. Not sure they will work optimally with all the treads up there though. I'll have to get up there and clear it at some point.Has anyone else had problems with spider webbing interfering with mast head equipment?If so, what can be done to get rid of the little buggers?I guess I'll spray a bug killer into all the crevices I see up there, but i'm sure new ones will find there way back.
~g
p.s. Word of warning: When anchoring near Heart-Miller Island, expect a lot of stowaways!Lots of little green frogs! Kinda fun to see at first except you cant get rid of them. Chuck em as far as you canthrow and they swim right back again...Now if I can only get them to climb the mast to eat the spiders up there.... :)
Guy and Liz Smithsv Pleiades '97 C320 #452Woreton Creek, MD
  
 On Wednesday, September 5, 2018, 9:10:10 AM EDT, Troy Dunn <troutwarrior at gmail.com> wrote:  
 
 Hi everyone,

Our wind instrument has been misbehaving the last few weeks.    Turns
out...our wind instrument is bent about 20 degrees to port.  I say bent as
the strut is pointing that way and I can't think of a way it would have
rotated into that position (maybe a loose set screw?).  I have a suspicion
that the resident osprey who has a habit of sitting on mast heads could be
to blame or perhaps one of the many bald eagles that seem to be spending
more and more time in the marina of late.  Tomorrow I'll move the boat
over to the lift area and "the guy" will get up in the bucket to see what
is actually going on up there.  Good news is...I'll install a new LED
anchor light and a new deck light (it stopped working last month).

Has anyone else experienced bird damage like this?  Is there another way
to end up with this problem?  Grrrrr….

Troy Dunn
S/V Wonky Dog
Hull #514