'Clicking' Noise That Moves Around Boat

[Hudson Force]

Originally Posted by At First Sight

................. a strange clicking that seems to move around the exterior of the boat on the hull and on the deck. It sounds like a mooring line being stretched (but all lines are slack when we have checked for this). It is not constant, but once it starts it seems to last for some time. ......................

This specific description of a cadence of increasing frequency of clicks like a line stretching sounds very familiar to me. It's like an increasing tapping on a snare drum repeated at different locations around the boat.

There is a common fish called "Drum" and this is why they have this name. You have not identified your location, but you might ask the locals if they catch Drum in your area.

[bizzy]

Don't listen to all this wrong advice ,,,its the strands in the fiberglass breaking as the boat gently flexes, most boats do it ,but eventually the break in half and the noise stops .do not sail in heavy weather without your PFD on

[bchaps]

At First Sight...five years ago, while docked at New Smyrna Beach, FL, I heard the same crackling.....searched lockers, cabinets, the bilge...nothing. But when I flushed the toilet, the noise temporarily stopped...so, it's not an electrical short..It's ALIVE!

My post to this forum brought the same responses you have received...one stuck in my mind...Polyestermites eating my hull. Fortunately someone kindly explained they are tiny shrimp cleaning my hull.

Bill

[Ukeluthier]

Polyestermites.

[Greenhand]

I saw one of these threads just before we got our boat. It was still a little creepy, but at least I was informed!

[Hudson Force]

The shrimp will produce a uniform random clicking and the fish (Drum) will be a series of calls and responses from varied locations.

[HappyMdRSailor]

Originally Posted by Hudson Force

This specific description of a cadence of increasing frequency of clicks like a line stretching sounds very familiar to me. It's like an increasing tapping on a snare drum repeated at different locations around the boat.

There is a common fish called "Drum" and this is why they have this name. You have not identified your location, but you might ask the locals if they catch Drum in your area.

ReDrum... ReDrum...

[jeanathon]

Originally Posted by hpeer

We have a different sound, a rattle. Steel boat and so thing vibrates when the engines running. It's SOMEWHERE around the aft cabin, but where? I just know it's a bolt loose in a hole with a frozen nut, just sounds like that . But with the aft cabin it's like being in a barrel. The sound is everywhere all at once.

Try placing a rod or pipe on different parts of the cabin while holding the other end to an ear. You will be able to locate it.

[Sailingcouple13]

Everyone knows it's zombies. ....yes someone had to say it. Stop being a denier. ...

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