Who likes snakes?

[captddis]

Not I !!!!
We went on a 11 day mini cruise.
The first two nights were at our Yacht Club where they are building a new tiki bar.

First night as I was finishing walking the Dog, I gazed at the A/C water flow and saw something strange.

I have a aft bilgepump discharge and a discharge for the water heater side by side. I look and it looks like both discharges are blocked. I go in for a flash light and see a orange snake in the thru hulls.
I figure I can yank him out with the boat hook......................... NOT! The SOB shoots inside the thru hull like a missle.

It is now about 11:00 and this is the last thing I want to fool with.
A kid is on the dock and I ask if he likes snakes and he says yes. I tell him there is money if he will get the snake.

We open up the hatch and then I think, if we open the pump and it gets loose, there is no telling where the snake can go.

I decide to flood the bilge and try to push him out with the punp pressure.
But about 10 inches of water and hit the switch. Had an audience by now. After a while Linda yells something is coming out and it is long. Finally he is out and swimming down the canal.

I give the kid some cash and head in. I do put a night light on just in case.

Thank that is over!!!








The second night I leave our friends boat and head for bed.

I wake up to a commotion, sure that someone fell in. No one fell in but Linda has a funny look and says, Guess what? I dunno. Another tried to get on the boat. She was walking down the walk and a snake slithered in front of her and was in the coil of line going to the bow. My friend went after it and it went up the piling. John was able to get him wrapped around his boat hook and took him across the property and slung him off.

I went up to the hause pipes and taped them up.

I was glad we were leaving in the morning.
I think that the construction must have displaced them.

Fortunately saw no more snakes on the rest of the trip.

 

[luckydave215]

Mmmm, tastes like chicken.....

 

[SKYCHENEY]

I hate them too. Don't ever go to Washington Island up in Green Bay. They are everywhere in the water up there. Yuck!!

 

[Boatsb]

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[bobk]

Glad I only have big gators in my back yard instead of itty bitty snakes.





Bobk

 

[seasalt]

I had a water moccasin crawl in the 10" exhaust on my 6-71TIB's once. Wife saw it and knew it was in the boat. Started boat and blew it several feet. Then it crawled in the other exhaust. Same deal...blew it out. It got the message then.

 

[captddis]

I had a water moccasin crawl in the 10" exhaust on my 6-71TIB's once. Wife saw it and knew it was in the boat. Started boat and blew it several feet. Then it crawled in the other exhaust. Same deal...blew it out. It got the message then.

I always worry about that when staying in Indiantown or Labelle.
I had one come after me when I was filling from platform of a Hatt I was delivering and stopped in Belhaven.
Was there in April this year and was told that 7 of them came out of the truck.

 

[SKYCHENEY]

Sleeping in Harrisville, MI last fall when I hear some scratching. It sounds like its in the cabinet next to the bed. I took a light and shined it up the exhaust only to see two little eyes glowing back at me. I did the same and started the engines. Those muskrats didn't like that too much. So then I found a couple of throwable cushions to stuff in there to keep them from coming back. Still better than snakes, though.

 

[saltshaker]

Yikes! I know how much you like snakes so it must have been a real joy for you

 

[captddis]

Yikes! I know how much you like snakes so it must have been a real joy for you

If the snake had gotten to the boat, that would be the end of the trip until I had the boat tented again

 

[Avenger]

Can't help it, it keeps reminding me of this. A theme song for the thread:

 

[DavidBostonWhaler37]

Can't stand snakes! Not my cup of tea. Some folks actually love them.

 

[tjshuler]

Sleeping in Harrisville, MI last fall when I hear some scratching. It sounds like its in the cabinet next to the bed. I took a light and shined it up the exhaust only to see two little eyes glowing back at me. I did the same and started the engines. Those muskrats didn't like that too much. So then I found a couple of throwable cushions to stuff in there to keep them from coming back. Still better than snakes, though.

Snakes are preferred to muskrats. Muskrats like to gnaw on the black rubber exhaust couplings. They will chew through them. If resulting hole is below the waterline the bilge pumps will probably not keep up.

I got a call from the DYC dockmaster last fall informing me that the little rodents were frequenting the exhaust ports on my boat. Stuffed gallon jugs in and tied them to temporarily keep the muskrats out. They chewed through the plastic jugs. Razor sharp cuts on the jugs remnants.

Made muskrat guards over the winter and installed them. So far, so good.

 

[q240z]

I was anchored out one night and, after brekkie the next morning, I started going down the ladder to the swim platform to retrieve a rope I saw coiled up down there. About the time I put my foot on the platform the "rope" moved! Man, I shot up that ladder faster than I'd moved in a decade.

Freakin' black rat snake was at least as big as an anaconda. Seriously.

Lost all desire to go swimming in that river until the next season.

 

[drburke]

Nice, Quentin!

When I was a land dweller, I had a riding lawn mower like pictured complete with clippings catcher.

Due to the up angle, the thing was always clogging down at the bottom, and one time I got disgusted when it clogged just while finishing up, so I put it away for next time.

After a week, I needed to reach in to get the wet grass clump (won't just shake out if sitting) which was starting to get a little ripe, but the idea didn't really appeal.

I actually sat down and thought it through: "What bugs me about this?". I realized that as evolved humans we avoid putting our hands and arms into deep unknown places just to be safer.

Satisfied that I could use thinking homo sapiens know-how to avoid instinct, I put my arm in up to my shoulder and grabbed a huge handful of grass.

When I withdrew it, I had about a 5' snake fully coiled around my arm over and over and was looking the dude right in the eye from about 8". I freaked out and threw, swung, cussed, whirled and generally launched it.

So much for thinking things through. Wasn't long before I sold the house, lawn mower, and duties and bought my first Hatteras.

DAN

 

[q240z]

I'm pretty sure I would have just died right there on the spot.

Snakes don't have to be poisonous to be lethal!

 

[SKYCHENEY]

I have a few around the house. I am going to try this stuff.

 

[sandspur1966]

Buncha wussies... talk to me about spiders, now those little creepy bastards scare me straight up off the ground, like a cat up a tree.

 

[SKYCHENEY]

Buncha wussies... talk to me about spiders, now those little creepy bastards scare me straight up off the ground, like a cat up a tree.

To keep those away, I spray my dock with this stuff ever few weeks:

 

[q240z]

Buncha wussies... talk to me about spiders, now those little creepy bastards scare me straight up off the ground, like a cat up a tree.

My wife grabs 'em bare-handed and throws 'em off the boat.

I'm the luckiest married man alive.