What if This Happened On Your Boat?

[OldManMirage]

In the case of a snake I would really prefer a shotgun over the boat hook. Damn the torpedoes - and the collateral damage !!

[SY Harmony]

Someone ask this guy

https://www.breitbart.com/africa/202...eath-his-seat/

[boatman61]

Kebab time...
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/12_3UvZC3hY

[hpeer]

I have had this happen a couple of times. Water snakes, no problem.

In Grenada we got RATZ while laid up.

That was a frigging nightmare more ways than one. It was 4 years ago and just last week I found more damage from the buggers.

I HATE rats.

[Franziska]

These come handy, especially when the gap is closed too...
Picture is from Wikipedia.

[Kd9truck]

Snakes, rats, roaches, and the woke are unwelcome on my vessel. I am glad that my vessel on mooring allows for none of the above to gain entrance without invitation. Lots of places for the first 3 to hide though.

[old pirate]

Every morning anchored in the Suriname river we had to detach vast areas 50m2 of flotsam weed from the anchor chain/bow area. Snakes and other jungle critters were a concern !

[Cwens]

Originally Posted by Kd9truck

Snakes, rats, roaches, and the woke are unwelcome on my vessel. I am glad that my vessel on mooring allows for none of the above to gain entrance without invitation. Lots of places for the first 3 to hide though.

What does "the woke" mean?

[IslandHopper]

Originally Posted by boatman61

Kebab time...
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/12_3UvZC3hY

That's right, tastes like chicken

[senormechanico]

I didn't think there was anybody left in the world who didn't know what "woke" means.


OTOH, when we were cruising in the '90's, when someone read the latest newspaper headline on the local cruiser's VHF net and announced the death of Richard Nixon and said it had been over a year since the last political death of Jackie Kennedy, the next cruiser said, "Jackie Kennedy died!!??

[Nicholson58]

Call in a specialist.

[Hasbeen]

I was running a fleet of bare boats in the Whitsunday Islands. One of our charters had a bar-b-que ashore on an isolated island one night, carrying all their cooking gear food etc ashore in a sail bag.


When they came back to the boat they tipped all the gear out on the cabin sole, including a 6Ft+ carpet snake, that must have found the bag comfortable. They left the cabin to the snake, spending the night in the cockpit. It was about 11.00 am next morning they hailed a passing boat to call us for help.


We fetched them & the boat, & gave them another boat. It was 3 days before we found the snake where we could catch it & send it back to land. The local paper heard about this & did a cartoon of a boat, people standing on the bow rail, with snakes slithering all over the boat mast & rigging.

[tomlisasail]

A couple of in transit sailors docked at Rose Marine in Marco Island FL to fuel up and provision. A scream was heard from the boat and a hysterical woman come out of the cabin yelling about a snake on board. It happened that the day before they were anchored in the Ten Thousand Islands near Indian Key and an eight foot python sneaked aboard and caught a ride. We anchor near there frequently and soon after the incident we anchored in that area and went kayaking. Unbelievably we saw a python swimming in the water off Camp Lulu. We called the FL wildlife invasive species hotline and sure enough the agent told us that there are pythons in the islands and they are incredible water creatures. First the deer, racoons and most of all the mammals in the Everglades, I guess the wading birds are next to disappear. The agent told us that we are safe but not so much any pets or small children.

[dwedeking2]

I was laying on my aft cabin bed on my Morgan OI late one night moored out in Key West. Next thing I know a 3' iguana is trying to crawl in the stern window. I yelled and it fell out the window and back into the water. Seems when I tied up my dinghy the excess line was in the water allowing it to climb up.

[Amapola]

We had a non-poisonous snake climb on our swim platform. We have also had frogs and anoles on board also.