I hate Sealions

I got a call from the Monterey Harbor Master this morning telling me that they just chased two Sealions from my sailboat.  I hate Sealions.  Last time they got on there, I found about a dozen of them.  After I chased them off, I had to clean up their mess including fecies and vomit.  Sealions eat lots of squid but do not digest the hard parts so they barf them up (sort of like a cat's hair ball).  The squid balls are about the size of footballs and are composed of squid skeletens etc.  They also leave large purple stains all over and the poop is very sticky not to mention stinky.  I will have to drape my boat in construction fencing attached with zip ties to keep them off.  That also makes it very hard and time consuming to use the boat.

Did I mention that I hate Sealions.

ey sackyak.....I heard if you spray your deck with GWS piss....the sealions will avoid your boat FOREVER 

I hate 'em too....especially during salmon season

Have you tried mounting a large plastic GWS on the boom?

I don't know if this applies to sailboats, but NOAA gives a list of deterence methods for sealions for fishermen

Here's a post about it...
http://www.norcalkayakanglers.com/bb/index.php?topic=5062.0

I'd be wary of any kind of GW resolutions......theoretically......a run in with a plastic shark could be responsible for some sort of traumatic stress disorder....or the gw urine could possibly make them associate boats with sharks thus preventing them from participating in their natural born right to vomit and defacate all over any other boat in the future.........thats textbook harassment and violation of the marine mamal protection act.  Gotta think like the seal huggers  

Sincerely,

"I hate sea lions" club member # 3

Mooch,

Do you have any GWS piss handy?  I'll take it off your hands if you do.

Brian,

Thanks.  They do apply but for most you have to be there.  I have the construction fence up now so I should be OK but it sure makes it hard to go whale watching.  I am in the sensor business and have explored and discussed deterance in detail with many marine scientist and anyone else who might know.  The best (most plausable) suggestion was to use hydrophones and generate a random mix of GWS, Killer whale and high freqhecy square waves.  The key would be to tune the power so that you deter them without hurting them or deffening them (making them deff, is that the right word?).  More of a vent than anything.

I am glad I am not alone.

The mess was not as bad as it could have been.

Electric fencing might be worth a shot and could be left in place while you sail since it's inconspicuous.