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Old 19 May 2010, 21:15   #21
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what ever the answer is!! this rib needs it
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Old 19 May 2010, 22:36   #22
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what ever the answer is!! this rib needs it
Holy shit
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Old 19 May 2010, 23:02   #23
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A whole lot of Holy shit!!
I know it can be a hard job keeping them of your rib but its a shame for such a nice looking rib!
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Old 19 May 2010, 23:04   #24
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Holy shit
then you'll want to look away for this one.......
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Old 20 May 2010, 19:56   #25
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I put picture of the wife on the cover, hey presto. please dont tell her.
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Old 20 May 2010, 22:24   #26
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please dont tell her.
having just posted to about 6,822,000,000 punters according Wiki which is the worlds population as at 20th May 2010 ... I'd say her chances of discovery would be at best .. good .. that said our imperious dictator assumes ribnet is beamed into the home of every one of those sad punters and thankfully that isnt the case can you imagine how many people feeling the urge to drill holes there would be ?
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Old 22 May 2010, 01:02   #27
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Alternative to owl - Snakes

My buddy has a 24 ft hard top cruiser that was constantly getting seagull payloads delivered all over the 'glass and canvas. Tried the owls, but the gulls were not deterred. Someone told him to try rubber snakes. He got a couple and laid one on the bow and another on the hardtop. Result - no more seagull crap. Counter-intuitive, but apparently Canadian gulls are afraid of snakes. Maybe their Brit cousins feel the same way. These snakes lay in a coil about 10 inches in diameter.
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Well, I have tried coiled snakes, whirly round-and-round thing on top of the boat, singing wire, flags and all these in combination on a sub-9m boat.
Each works.....for about a week.
Then the pesky critturs get used to them and poop all over your boat.
Indeed I was pasiing the boat the other day and I saw a seagull sitting (if thats the right word) on the engine box, between two flags, underneath the whirly thing and between two lengths of singing wire.

I give up and just go and powerwash the boat every couple of days-oh, and before you ask, my tubes are also coated with some slippery stuff that has no effect either.

Haven't tried the owl yet. Do you reckon it would make a diference???
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Old 22 May 2010, 17:33   #29
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Haven't tried the owl yet. Do you reckon it would make a diference???
...for about a week, I'd say
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Exactly!
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Old 23 May 2010, 21:55   #31
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sow im tinkin dem boids haz a shoryt memowrie ye could ewes de howls de furst week, de snaaks de sekund week, de hummin stryngs de turd week an de guwl swiepir de fowrth week den repeet

ope dat elps
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Old 23 May 2010, 22:17   #32
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"Spice" up some food and leave it for them. It may take more than a week to get the last one mind you!!

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"Spice" up some food and leave it for them. It may take more than a week to get the last one mind you!!

So lets get this straight, feed the birds spicy food so they shit and puke like bastards all over your boat.
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