Keeping gulls off

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rpgoldman

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Does anyone have a suggestion for keeping gulls off our Capri?

We have a buoy on a nearby lake which is infested by gulls, and cleanup before sailing was very time consuming last year because of the quantity of seagull poop and feathers.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

thanks!
 
An older gentleman I sail with once told me to lay 2-3 foot pieces of driftwood on my boat and I will never have a problem with seagull droppings (they look like snakes to birds). I have done this with my 28 foot Columbia for years and have yet to have any bird droppings on her.
 
Thanks

Thank you very much for the suggestion.

I should perhaps have mentioned that I have seen people put netting over their cockpits, and it seems like this sorta works (the theory seems to be that it's tippy and the gulls don't like to perch on it), but it makes getting the boat ready to sail in a bit of a nuisance.

I suppose another solution is just to buy a cockpit cover and live with the fact that the gulls are going to poop all over it. But then I'd really want a cover that covered the whole deck, not just the cockpit. Does such a cover exist for the Capri?

Thanks!
 
I had an owl on my covered boom/mainsail until one day, walking to my boat, I saw a seagull sitting on top of the owl.
 
Bird doo doo on my shiny gelcoat

I keep a motorboat on a lift and a sailboat on at davit. I use a Clear almost invisibel fishing line barrier that i lift with main halyard and has 10 evenly spaced lines from stern of sailboat to bow of motorboat. It acts like a shield. Birds fly into it a couple of times and learn to stay away. I only have to erect it for a week every other month. After a year birds don't get close to my boat anymore. Birds don't like to fly into things they cant see so they stay away.
 
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