Sail With Winterlude
  • Commuter Cruiser. The resource for part time cruisers.
  • Available Now! The Boat Galley Cookbook!
  • Learning About Photography
  • Alaska Live
  • Jan's Top 10
  • Commuter Cruiser Off Season 2013!
  • WL Updates Fall 2012-Spring 2013
  • Winterlude Updates Here!
  • Day By Day 2011 Refit
  • "Refit" SW Florida 2010
  • 2009 - 2010 Colon, Panama to Florida
  • Annapolis to SW Florida
  • 2004 - 2005 Cut The Dock Lines! NW Caribbean
    • Goodbye Burnt Store! Off to Marathon Key
    • Waiting For Weather: Marathon
    • Our First Crossing: Dry Tortugas to Isla Mujeres >
      • Handbasket I
      • Handbasket II
      • Handbasket III
    • Isla Contoy and Isla Mujeres
    • Weather In Isla
    • Culebra Cays, Bahia de la Ascension, MX
    • San Pedro, Belize
    • Lamanai, Belize
    • Drowned Cayes & Belize City
    • Reflections On Cruising From Lighthouse Reef Atoll, Belize
    • Lighthouse Reef Atoll Con't
    • Tobacco & Colsen Cayes & Bluefield Range, Belize
    • Rio Dulce, Guatemala
  • About David & Jan
  • Life Inside Winterlude
  • Outfitting Winterlude
    • Getting Ready to Cut the Dock Lines
    • Changes Cruising the Western Caribbean
    • What Works & What Doesn't
  • Catamaran Hotel & Resort, Rio Dulce, Guatemala
  • Hurricane Charley
  • 2001-2004 Getting Ready Adventures
  • Tiger Cruise: US Navy
  • Lessons From The Bay Islands 2005-2006 (incl Robbed in Utila)
    • Robbed In Utila
    • Easting To Guanaja
    • Lucky Enough ... Jonesville, Roatan
    • One Particular Cut

Rata-Tat-Tat 

4/25/2013

1 Comment

 
Picture
Sitting sipping coffee in the cockpit, rata-tat-tat ... and again, rata-tat-tat.  What kind of noise is THAT?  We look around and notice not one but two woodpeckers pecking away at a mast of a boat on our dock.  David's theory is that there must be bugs that they're tapping away at ... but they were tapping on the aluminum mast as well as what looks to be the spinnaker halyard.  Not sure how reliable that halyard might be after the torture it endured this morning!  

You learn something new every day.  We have never seen woodpeckers pecking away at the top of a mast.  Lots of ospreys, blackbirds, seagulls and other pesky birds, but never woodpeckers!   Weird! 
1 Comment
Carleen
4/27/2013 12:46:53 pm

We've heard woodpeckers pecking away at the metal flashing around chimneys...futile regarding bug searches but makes a great racket - which helps establish territory and attract a mate or so I've heard!!!

Reply



Leave a Reply.

    Archives

    May 2013
    April 2013
    March 2013
    February 2013
    January 2013
    December 2012
    November 2012

    RSS Feed

    Picture
    Buy The Boat Galley Cookbook at Amazon, Click on the Photo! Great Christmas Present!

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.