Glassman
Jetboaters Admiral
- Messages
- 2,238
- Reaction score
- 1,946
- Points
- 267
- Location
- Redondo Beach, California, U.S.A.
- Boat Make
- Yamaha
- Year
- 2004
- Boat Model
- AR
- Boat Length
- 23
Sooooooo, we pull in to the hotel parking lot around 10 pm Thursday night. All our friends are out there celebrating the full moon or anything else that comes to mind.
We get a warm welcome and after schlepping the bags and cooler to the room we come out and settle in for our traditional late night welcoming party as more friends arrive as the night progresses.
One of my buddies starts to tell me that he thinks that there is a rodent problem over where we store the boats. Another chimes in that he thinks he had some mice on his boat too and that I should check mine...
...so I do. No signs of mice on the Yamaha. I go over and look at my buddy's boat, sure enough, droppings all over the place. We are hanging out talking and all of a sudden I see a mouse scamper out of the boat cover which is all balled up in the bow of his Malibu. It runs toward the stern and I start hollering to my friend that it's still on his boat!
We tear into the boat, throwing stuff out, pulling cushions. I get to the front compartment where the batteries are and I find that they have already started storing food, etc. for the weekend - I take all that out and keep looking - WOW - four little baby mice! There's a nest!!
Turns out that someone left food behind from the last trip.
You leave food- especially bags of potato chips, and you'll get mice.
I told him to set some traps OUTSIDE the boat when he puts it away. That way they don't die inside.
And it helps to store your boat next to one that has a rattlesnake living under it....they like mice.
(next day he went and bought some traps, they got the bugger the next night)
We get a warm welcome and after schlepping the bags and cooler to the room we come out and settle in for our traditional late night welcoming party as more friends arrive as the night progresses.
One of my buddies starts to tell me that he thinks that there is a rodent problem over where we store the boats. Another chimes in that he thinks he had some mice on his boat too and that I should check mine...
...so I do. No signs of mice on the Yamaha. I go over and look at my buddy's boat, sure enough, droppings all over the place. We are hanging out talking and all of a sudden I see a mouse scamper out of the boat cover which is all balled up in the bow of his Malibu. It runs toward the stern and I start hollering to my friend that it's still on his boat!
We tear into the boat, throwing stuff out, pulling cushions. I get to the front compartment where the batteries are and I find that they have already started storing food, etc. for the weekend - I take all that out and keep looking - WOW - four little baby mice! There's a nest!!
Turns out that someone left food behind from the last trip.
You leave food- especially bags of potato chips, and you'll get mice.
I told him to set some traps OUTSIDE the boat when he puts it away. That way they don't die inside.
And it helps to store your boat next to one that has a rattlesnake living under it....they like mice.
(next day he went and bought some traps, they got the bugger the next night)
