[Rhodes22-list] Stowaways On Board!!!

Rob Lowe rlowe at vt.edu
Mon May 19 15:57:53 EDT 2008


Mary Lou,
Thanks for the story.  And you can fess up about the egg.  Tasty?? - Rob

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mary Lou Troy" <mtroy at atlanticbb.net>
To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Sent: Monday, May 19, 2008 3:26 PM
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Stowaways On Board!!!


> Hank,
> Here is our duck story. I think it's been posted here before so if
> you are an oldtimer here you can just go on to the next message.
>
> When we moved Fretless to the Eastern Shore 7 or 8 years ago, it was
> the first time we had kept the boat in a slip. We had made the
> commitment and were determined to get a lot of use out of the boat.
> We got her all settled in the slip one weekend and went away for the
> week. We came back the next weekend, planning to spend the weekend on
> the boat. We schlepped our stuff down the dock and stowed it all
> away, went off to have dinner at a restaurant in town, came back and
> sat out in the cockpit for a while.
>
> Some time later we put up the poptop enclosure, made up the berth in
> the cabin and turned in.
>
> I heard noises like someone walking on deck. I told myself I was
> imagining things. I heard more noises. I nudged Fred awake (he's next
> to the companionway). He didn't hear anything (he's somewhat deaf).
> He looked out and didn't see anything. I went back to sleep. I heard
> the noise again. And again. I nudged Fred awake. This time he was
> nice enough to get up and take a look around. He still didn't see
> anything. We went back to bed and to sleep.
>
> The next morning I fixed a nice breakfast and we are sitting in the
> cockpit with our orange juice and our mugs of tea on the cockpit
> table. We heard a scrambling sound from the area of the lazarette. We
> looked at each other. We turned the table so that Fred can get to the
> lazarette. He cautiously opened the lid and let it fall right back
> down. "There's a duck in there!"  "A duck??"   "A duck!!"   We
> finished our breakfast contemplating how to get a duck out of the
lazarette.
>
> We cleaned up breakfast and looked in the lazarette. The duck was in
> amongst various lines, pfds and the anchor looking rather frightened.
> We decided to leave the lid of the lazarette propped open to see if
> the duck would leave on its own. We propped the lid and left.
>
> We came back to the boat and the duck was gone having left us a duck
> egg as a present. No nest or crud, just the egg. Then we started to
> try to figure out how the duck got into the lazarette and we made a
> discovery about the boat that we had owned for 3 years. The underside
> of gunnels are open to the lazarette. Somehow the duck had figured
> out how to go under the bench seats and up under the gunnels into the
> lazarette.
>
> Having figured out how the duck got into the lazarette, we had to
> figure out how to keep the duck out of the lazarette.
>
> Off we went to the hardware store to buy some screening and some
> ...        (drum roll please)      ..... duck tape.  Taped the
> screening over the openings and ended our duck problem. Can't say
> what happened to the egg.
>
>
> Mary Lou
> 1991 R22 Fretless
> Rock Hall, MD
>
>
> At 09:44 PM 5/18/2008, you wrote:
> >Hey Gang,
> >
> >Well, I went down to the boat today and I didn't have any wasps, but I
had
> >some much larger stowaways and I can't figure out how they got there.
> >
> >I opened the aft lazerette and found about 8 duck eggs inside.  No nest,
> >just the eggs and a few feathers.  A few of the eggs were broken and the
> >odor was a bit ripe.  I tossed all of them over the side.
> >
> >What I can't figure out is how a duck got inside to lay the eggs?  My laz
> >doesn't lock, so I'm almost wondering if someone didn't put them in
their,
> >but that doesn't make much sense either.
> >
> >Anyone have any ideas?
> >
> >Hank
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