I am fed up with seagulls sitting on and leave poo on the boat, even with the cover on.
Does anyone know where you can get the plastic owls/hawks, they seem effective.
Steve
Is this for your Parker?
All the plastic owls I've seen have been covered in gul sh!t where they've been sat on them.
You could try carrier bags tied on so they blow and rustle and scare them off? Bits of fishing line tied/clipped from the A frame to points on the tubes would keep them off.
I am fed up with seagulls sitting on and leave poo on the boat, even with the cover on.
Does anyone know where you can get the plastic owls/hawks, they seem effective.
Steve
I want to start using smaller and easier to handle seat & console covers rather than the large heavy all over boat cover. Trouble is the rest of the baot could get covered in .....
I have bigger/taller boats either side, yet still use mine as well. I thought a owl or hawk clipped to the A frame would work and quick to remove at the start of the day and clip on in the evening.
wilk can I have a picture or is there other ways that might cause less offence but still work?
Owls definately do not work. Try knotting plastic bags along a twine, or tie some old CD's along the length oyour boat they are effective, especially Des O'Connor. Boom Boom!!
J
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I have bigger/taller boats either side, yet still use mine as well. I thought a owl or hawk clipped to the A frame would work and quick to remove at the start of the day and clip on in the evening.
A real owl or hawk would work!
I gave in with my SR4 and just put up with putting the cover on, granted your RIB is a good bit bigger.
If the guls are landing on it surely they'll still fly over and drop little parcels for you?
You can have a picture certainly, but if it hasn't scared off Mrs willk, who's an easy goin' auld burd, it's unlikely to work on a bunch of hellion gulls.
Try these things clicky on your high points (perhaps on a clip on strip) and run a few heavy monofilament lines from the bow to the A-frame. Don't rule out fruit nets too (A-frame to console bar)
Or you could get thon Bigmouth Weegie, The DeerShunter, down to waste a few o' them for ye...
My dads mate got so fed up with them doing it on his targa and rib moored in front of his house, that after trying owls etc he took his powerful airgun there and from the bedroom window took aim when he saw one......fired.....and bang.....the window blew! He felt such a tit he swore my old man to secrecy when he helped get a local glazer in. Though two weeks later, my mum, privy to the info and suitably anebriated, told his wife.
he swore my old man to secrecy when he helped get a local glazer in. Though two weeks later, my mum, privy to the info and suitably anebriated, told his wife.
Hi Steve I had this problem since I got my mooring. Tried plastic bags, CDs etc ( the owls are a joke - only today a big gull sat next to one here....quite funny the gull was bigger than the owl)
one continious length from bow round the A frame to 'spread' it sideways & back to the bow. I have tied a loop in each end and use cheap plastic clips at the bow. I put it back on the spool when I go out to stop it tangling.
So far its ace ! Pull it quite tight and only in nil wind does it not twang away.
The birds do seem to hate it !
( I have had some mullett eaten on the deck but no crapping worth noticing ! )
Cheap as you can get too !
looked like a barrett .. and unlucky they shoot steel plates on a lot of ranges as they make a good ping when hit by small arms and save for the need of butt markers .. but many .50 cal bullets are steel cored and dont splash like lead oh dear
Hi Steve I had this problem since I got my mooring. Tried plastic bags, CDs etc ( the owls are a joke - only today a big gull sat next to one here....quite funny the gull was bigger than the owl)
"mr Jingle's"
Breawatch
but no crapping worth noticing ! )
Cait
