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Originally Posted by Trikona  Hi all! This is my first post to this forum - I just want to thank you for all of your great information and experiences! My fiance and I are planning to circumnavigate, although our plans are still several years away. In the meantime, we enjoy weekend-sailing. We have a 9 year old Congo African Grey that loves riding in the car, but we haven't gotten him on the boat yet (last summer was our first season on the water). It gives me hope hearing from all of you that he will handle it pretty well. He is clipped, and my thought is to teach him how to use a harness and leash for those times that he is on deck or we take him on shore and I would transport him in a travel cage while in the dinghy. I would be devastated to lose him overboard.
What have you all used for your cages in the cabin? Where do you find is the best location for the cage for bird happiness and ease of cleaning, etc.? Do you have perches that move with the heel of the boat?
Thanks!
Sarah and Archemedies (CAG) |
Birds love the movement of the boat. Just think of wind in the trees.
Heel doesn't matter, neither does cage placement.
Don't be too concerned about him falling over-board. Our Lori has done it several times, just by getting too rambunctious. It was terrifying the 1st time it happened, I even jumped in after him. Once I knew that he could "Swim" (after a fashion), I was less concerned and let him swim back to the boat and plucked his scrawny butt out of the drink. They float and can even propel themselves through the water pretty good.