Bathing platform poo problem

[Simpo Two]

When I went to clean the boat recently after its winter sojourn the bathing platform was encrusted with duck poo. It took quite a lot of pressure washing to shift it.

How can I stop ducks from using it as a toilet? They've already started crapping on it again...

[hidetheelephants]

Duck st is basically mud, just wet it to soften, then come back to it with the washer a few minutes later.

[crofty1984]

Ducks hate fire. If you set it on for the ducks will stay away.

[w1bbles]

My nemesis is seagulls. They hate string at wing level so every time I leave the boat I have a cat's cradle of string on the boom, foredeck, sprayhood, aft deck etc. It's a pain to set up but it's easier than removing seagull turds. I have two boats on adjacent moorings that don't go out very often (/at all) so I leave polite notices asking the gulls to crap on them instead.

[Simpo Two]

hidetheelephants said:

Duck st is basically mud, just wet it to soften, then come back to it with the washer a few minutes later.

Done that. But I don't plan to cart the pressure washer up every time I go...

crofty1984 said:

Ducks hate fire. If you set it on for the ducks will stay away.

Crispy duck, delicious

w1bbles said:

My nemesis is seagulls. They hate string at wing level so every time I leave the boat I have a cat's cradle of string on the boom, foredeck, sprayhood, aft deck etc.

No seagulls luckily but a physical device to stop them getting on has to be the answer (I don't use the platform for anything). I thought about some anti-pigeon spikes that you see on buildings.

[hidetheelephants]

Use a scrubbing brush? You have a boat in a muddy ditch, there are ducks, duck st on horizontal surfaces is a feature of the product.

[Simpo Two]

hidetheelephants said:

Use a scrubbing brush? You have a boat in a muddy ditch, there are ducks, duck st on horizontal surfaces is a feature of the product.

Actually, you can come and scrub the ruddy thing clean every week! This the first season it's happened.

[hidetheelephants]

Tether a cat on the platform, the cat st will repel the ducks.

[Johnnybee]

[Badda]

Plastic owl, plastic snakes - people swear by these.

[FlyVintage]

Badda said:

Plastic owl, plastic snakes - people swear by these.

I can save you some money there; the owl definitely doesn’t work!

[DaveyBoyWonder]

Badda said:

Plastic owl, plastic snakes - people swear by these.

Real owl and real snakes = better.

[ferret50]

Remove the bathing platform.

[Simpo Two]

ferret50 said:

Remove the bathing platform.

That's not actually a stupid idea - in a stroke of brilliance the manufacturers made it inaccessible from inside the boat! But it would look a bit funny without one. I've found some anti-bird spike strips so if the little buggers are still at it I shall get one.

[Jimbo.]

Have it professionally cleaned…and send them the bill.

Sorry.

[Simpo Two]

Jimbo. said:

Have it professionally cleaned and send them the bill.

Sorry.

You must be a quack!

[Panamax]

Edmund Blackadder, "So, some sort of net is probably in order."

[Simpo Two]

Panamax said:

Edmund Blackadder, "So, some sort of net is probably in order."

"...but to do that would require the services of two Baldricks, one at each end, and frankly one is quite enough."

[Jimbo.]

I can’t believe I missed this one:

You just need to use more antifowl.

Sorry, again.

[Simpo Two]

Very good!

Go to the top of the class. And jump off