Rat Onboard! Horror of Finding a Rat on our Boat - Liveaboards Nightmare 030
Mothership Adrift Travel and Sailing
We're a UK family who have saved over many years to live the dream of travelling the world with our kids. We sold our belongings, closed our business and rented our house to buy a 20 year old sailboat . We want to show the kids that there is a bigger world out there and to appreciate the simple things in life, things that you find in the sea, the woods, up mountains, along the beach , the sky and the stars. Our dream of cruising and exploring the world's oceans is matched with a desire to live a more off-grid and sustainable lifestyle. A background as RYA instructors, flotilla skippers and RNLI crew only partly prepared us for the challenges of a live-aboard life! From buying a boat to homeschooling the kids, from cooking on a budget to making money while we travel, from sailboat maintenance to visiting amazing places - join our journey and share in our world adventure, as well as the challenges of family life, through our series of video blogs.
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Yup, we had a rat onboard within days of docking in Almerimar Marina. We tried using traditional traps, homemade traps, glue, duct tape and even Oscar, a Patterdale terrier – a proven ratter, but nothing worked.
But if there’s one thing worse than a live rat onboard, it’s a dead one. It must have eaten the rat poison left out by the marina staff then crawled into the most inaccessible part of our boat and died. The stench of a rotting rat corpse filled the boat. We pulled the place apart trying to find it, and eventually retrieved the body with the vacuum cleaner from the ceiling void.
Not the best start to wintering in Spain!
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