[Rhodes22-list] Wasps!

[elle]

Won't a bungee work to cinch the sail cover & main
tightly??

elle


--- John Lock <jlock at relevantarts.com> wrote:

> At 08:16 AM 4/19/2008 -0700, elle wrote:
> >
> >   Looks as if what I have are the iridescent blue
> mud dauber & the 
> > organ pipe  mud dauber....I'll know better when I
> find the nest...
> >
> >   I looked 'em up...lit says they are rarely
> aggressive....ha.
> 
> Those are the ones that give me the most trouble
> down here as 
> well.  Their favorite trick is fly inside the sail
> cover gap at the 
> end of the boom where the is cinched around the
> sail.  They build 
> their mud nests under the cover in the folds of the
> main!  Big 
> surprise when I hoist it and all this red clay falls
> out.  Not too 
> mention the stains on the sail that will NEVER come
> out :-(  I need 
> to figure out a way to plug the end of the sail
> cover to keep them outta there.
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> John Lock
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> s/v Pandion - '79 Rhodes 22
> Lake Sinclair, GA
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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We can't change the angle of the wind....but we can adjust our sails.

 1992 Rhodes 22   Recyc '06  "WaterMusic"   (Lady in Red)


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