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Re: Rats on Charter Yachts
[Re: MIDiver]
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04/01/2023 12:53 PM
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Snake??!! 😳 I would abandon ship. It was only small. squeezed itself into the runners at the top of the sliding doors between cockpit and salon. I called the charter company and asked if there were any poisonous snakes in the BVI. They said not but asked if I wanted them to call Steve Irwin (the mad Australian who did stupid things with Snakes and Crocs) for advice
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Re: Rats on Charter Yachts
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04/01/2023 01:49 PM
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Snake??!! 😳 I would abandon ship. It was only small. squeezed itself into the runners at the top of the sliding doors between cockpit and salon. I called the charter company and asked if there were any poisonous snakes in the BVI. They said not but asked if I wanted them to call Steve Irwin (the mad Australian who did stupid things with Snakes and Crocs) for advice Little snake, big snake no difference to me. I can dive with 20 sharks but I see a little garter snake wiggle by and it is game over.😆. Wonder how he got on board? First thing I am doing when we get back to the boat is check that runner.😂
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Re: Rats on Charter Yachts
[Re: MIDiver]
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04/03/2023 08:43 AM
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Snake??!! 😳 I would abandon ship. It was only small. squeezed itself into the runners at the top of the sliding doors between cockpit and salon. I called the charter company and asked if there were any poisonous snakes in the BVI. They said not but asked if I wanted them to call Steve Irwin (the mad Australian who did stupid things with Snakes and Crocs) for advice Little snake, big snake no difference to me. I can dive with 20 sharks but I see a little garter snake wiggle by and it is game over.😆. Wonder how he got on board? First thing I am doing when we get back to the boat is check that runner.😂 But what are you gonna do when you find one in the track? Call Joyce to deal with it? She'll bring over one of the chickens! lmao
Peter s/y Time Will Tell (2019 Lagoon 42) peter@syTimeWillTell.com
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Re: Rats on Charter Yachts
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04/03/2023 12:40 PM
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No chickens on board. Tim will slay it and we will hoist it over TWT.
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Re: Rats on Charter Yachts
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04/03/2023 04:54 PM
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Brings back early bareboating memories: turn on the light to go to the head and always greeted with hundreds of roaches - cute little guys - and always found them hiding during the day! And how about block ice in the ice box - after the third day, almost had to put on your Speedo to dive into the dirty water to rescue your evening meal! Those were the days my friends! Thankful for fumigation and refrigeration! I'll never get those visions out of my mind of coming home (I was brought up on a sailboat in the Caribbean) turning on the light and seeing the roaches scatter. Or the fun roach bomb days where you had to seal off the entire boat, detonate the bomb and then wash every dish, glass, silverware, surface of the boat afterwards only to have the scurrying continue a couple months later! We are lucky to still be alive! When my kids complain that they can't find something in the boat fridge or that they can't take a "proper" shower, I remind them that I grew up without a shower at all and an icebox for refrigeration! Spoiled brats! I too am thankful for fumigation, refrigeration, air conditioning, toilets that flush without blistering your hands and all the other pampered things we have now days!
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Re: Rats on Charter Yachts
[Re: Time Will Tell]
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04/04/2023 04:39 AM
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Jeannius
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Snake??!! 😳 I would abandon ship. It was only small. squeezed itself into the runners at the top of the sliding doors between cockpit and salon. I called the charter company and asked if there were any poisonous snakes in the BVI. They said not but asked if I wanted them to call Steve Irwin (the mad Australian who did stupid things with Snakes and Crocs) for advice Little snake, big snake no difference to me. I can dive with 20 sharks but I see a little garter snake wiggle by and it is game over.😆. Wonder how he got on board? First thing I am doing when we get back to the boat is check that runner.😂 But what are you gonna do when you find one in the track? Call Joyce to deal with it? She'll bring over one of the chickens! lmao It was Sam (you may know him if you've been around TMM a while) who was being 'helpful' on the phone. We'd just left Road Town on our way to Cooper when I saw this bit of 'rubber' hanging down from the top of the cockpit door. I gave it a gentle pull to see if it was loose and it shrank into the door which I instantly recognised as not normal behaviour for rubber. First thought was that it was a lizard of some description. After thinking about it for a short while, I went inside and looked at the other end of the door track and could see this tiny head with a forked tongue waving about. That was when I phoned base to see if there were any venomous snakes in the BVI. Having established it was very unlikely to be dangerous we decided to keep an eye on it and continue to Cooper to deal with it then. When we got to Cooper, two of us dressed in thick gloves, covered as much of our bodies as possible and got a bucket and a cover ready to contain the visitor. I gently pulled on the tail and it came out fairly easily but that was when the fun started. It wriggled like mad in my hand so I dropped it straight in the bucket. Unfortunately the person assigned to cover the bucket wasn't ready and the thing was out and into the cockpit in an instant. Fortunately someone ran inside the salon and slammed the doors shut behind them (very heroic) so the snake couldn't disappear inside the boat. That would have been a nightmare. The rest of the crew was trying to get as far away as possible leaving me to deal with it but he snake seemed to have a self preservation instinct, found the sugar scoop steps and slid down into the water. It headed straight to shore and presumably lived happily ever after on Cooper Island. Very exciting start to a vacation.
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Re: Rats on Charter Yachts
[Re: Jeannius]
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04/04/2023 09:00 AM
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Snake??!! 😳 I would abandon ship. It was only small. squeezed itself into the runners at the top of the sliding doors between cockpit and salon. I called the charter company and asked if there were any poisonous snakes in the BVI. They said not but asked if I wanted them to call Steve Irwin (the mad Australian who did stupid things with Snakes and Crocs) for advice Little snake, big snake no difference to me. I can dive with 20 sharks but I see a little garter snake wiggle by and it is game over.😆. Wonder how he got on board? First thing I am doing when we get back to the boat is check that runner.😂 But what are you gonna do when you find one in the track? Call Joyce to deal with it? She'll bring over one of the chickens! lmao It was Sam (you may know him if you've been around TMM a while) who was being 'helpful' on the phone. We'd just left Road Town on our way to Cooper when I saw this bit of 'rubber' hanging down from the top of the cockpit door. I gave it a gentle pull to see if it was loose and it shrank into the door which I instantly recognised as not normal behaviour for rubber. First thought was that it was a lizard of some description. After thinking about it for a short while, I went inside and looked at the other end of the door track and could see this tiny head with a forked tongue waving about. That was when I phoned base to see if there were any venomous snakes in the BVI. Having established it was very unlikely to be dangerous we decided to keep an eye on it and continue to Cooper to deal with it then. When we got to Cooper, two of us dressed in thick gloves, covered as much of our bodies as possible and got a bucket and a cover ready to contain the visitor. I gently pulled on the tail and it came out fairly easily but that was when the fun started. It wriggled like mad in my hand so I dropped it straight in the bucket. Unfortunately the person assigned to cover the bucket wasn't ready and the thing was out and into the cockpit in an instant. Fortunately someone ran inside the salon and slammed the doors shut behind them (very heroic) so the snake couldn't disappear inside the boat. That would have been a nightmare. The rest of the crew was trying to get as far away as possible leaving me to deal with it but he snake seemed to have a self preservation instinct, found the sugar scoop steps and slid down into the water. It headed straight to shore and presumably lived happily ever after on Cooper Island. Very exciting start to a vacation. Makes for a memorable trip - and when you hear someone bitching about the conditions of a charter boat or what they had to endure on vacation, you get to say "Oh yeah! Let me tell you about the time...." And as time passes, the snake gets bigger, more venomous, vicious, intelligent, ninja like.........! Keep Smiling!!!
Peter s/y Time Will Tell (2019 Lagoon 42) peter@syTimeWillTell.com
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Re: Rats on Charter Yachts
[Re: Fritz_the_Cat]
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04/04/2023 09:17 AM
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Anchored off a random island in Belize we awoke to see a 6 footer draped over the life lines. After some fancy swordmanship with the mop handle it was flipped overboard. Then it occurred to us that we had spent the night with all hatches open!
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Re: Rats on Charter Yachts
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04/05/2023 03:50 AM
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Anchored off a random island in Belize we awoke to see a 6 footer draped over the life lines. After some fancy swordmanship with the mop handle it was flipped overboard. Then it occurred to us that we had spent the night with all hatches open! That beast my story Nolan. Hope you Kitt and the family are keeping well.
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