[Rhodes22-list] duck, duck. duck.... Re: Video: Storage Solutions

Sat Jul 2 23:04:13 EDT 2016

Seems it is time for my duck story.
This dates back to our 2nd weekend on Fretless in 
a slip at Swan Creek Marina in Rock Hall, MD on 
the Eastern shore. We had previously dry-sailed 
the boat for a year an a half out of the Middle River on the western shore.

The events in the story took place in 2000 (I think).
I wrote this in 2006 or 2007.

Ok, here's my story.

When we moved Fretless to the Eastern Shore 6 or 
7 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 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 sitting 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.

So that's the story. Olivr Hecht, the remains of 
that screenng and "duck" tape may still be keeping ducks out of your lazarette.

Best wishes all.

Mary Lou
formerly R22 Fretless
now Rosborough rf246  Tara
(in Oriental, NC, soon to be Rock Hall, MD)

At 08:03 PM 7/2/2016, you wrote:
>â€‹Love what you've done and am certainly going 
>to use some of your ideas. Organizing the 
>lazarette is espeâ€‹cially challenging and I 
>always end up with a mass of anchor rodes and 
>chains all sitting in a puddle of dirty bilge 
>water. I use a Magma Kettle BBQ a lot and 
>finding a good storage arrangement for this in 
>the Lazarette when it's not mounted on the 
>transom is a my quest. Any ideas would be 
>welcomed. I have a great mystery that I am still 
>trying to figure out....last weekend I checked 
>out my lazarette and discovered that a duck had 
>made its nest on my anchor rode and laid a 
>clutch of 12 eggs. The mystery is how did it get 
>in there, I always keep my Lazarette shut and 
>what to do with 12 fertilized duck eggs? Can you 
>you imagine what my bilge would have smelled 
>like if these had broken! Great video and thanks 
>S/V Waif ~~~ _/) ~~~ Richard Beytagh Phone: 828 
>337 0180 On Sat, Jul 2, 2016 at 9:09 AM, Peter 
>Nyberg <peter at sunnybeeches.com> wrote: > Graham 
>& Olivier, > > I wonâ€™t be on the boat again 
>until after the 4th.  I will try to remember > 
>to take pictures and measurements then. > > 
>Peter Nyberg > Coventry, CT > sv Silverheels 
>(1988/2016) > > > > On Jul 1, 2016, at 11:19 PM, 
>Graham Stewart <gstewart8 at cogeco.ca> 
>wrote: > > > > Peter: > > While you are at it 
>regarding the strut on the lazarette cover, I 
>would > be interested in knowing what was used 
>for hinges. A close up picture would > be very 
>helpful. > > Thanks for the video. > > 
>Thanks, > > > > Graham Stewart > > Agile. R22, 
>1976 > > Kingston Ontario 
>Canada > > > > > > > > > > -----Original 
>Message----- > > From: Rhodes22-list 
>[mailto:rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org] On > 
>Behalf Of Olivier Hecht > > Sent: July 1, 2016 
>10:19 PM > > To: The Rhodes 22 Email List > > 
>Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Video: Storage 
>Solutions > > > > Hi Peter. Congrats on the 
>launch and I hope you're all healed up. Your > 
>videos have been great. > > > > I noticed the 
>gas strut on the lazarette lid and I'd like to 
>add one to > Fretless. Could you let me know the 
>length and stroke of the strut and > share any 
>close up photos of the mounting and/or part 
>number? > > > > The worst part of having 
>Fretless ready to launch but 50 miles from me > 
>is little details like this I need to gather 
>parts for all the little > projects like 
>this... > > > > Olivier and Faith Hecht > > s/v 
>Fretless > > on the Rappahanock > > > > 
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