Otters at the marina

CalCom

CalCom

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Hi all
I have heard some marinas have real issues with river otters making messes on boats while in their slips. I’ve seen some online recommendations using ammonia, moth balls and even bottled pee (ugh) to keep the pesky critters off the boat. Aside from the obvious (keeping boat decks and fish boxes clean), anyone have real world experience with this?
 
I haven’t tried this on a moored boat yet but it has kept the rats away at my place. I place a Urinal Puck in the carport near my boat and Scout 80 and have been amazed how well it’s worked. Cheap and easy, each puck is in a cellophane bag and I poke it with a fork . Not the best smelling but not the worst. I’d be curious to know if it works on Otters. I have seen Otters and Racoons in my yard as I’m on a creek.
 
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I haven’t tried this on a moored boat yet but it has kept the rats away at my place. I place a Urinal Puck in the carport near my boat and Scout 80 and have been amazed how well it’s worked. Cheap and easy, each puck is in a cellophane bag and I poke it with a fork . Not the best smelling but not the worst. I’d be curious to know if it works on Otters. I have seen Otters and Racoons in my yard as I’m on a creek.
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Got a specific brand you use?
 
Otters are getting onto my boat, while moored. Nice big extended transom gives them easy access, and they hop over the transom. Then they proceed to crap all over the deck. Even though the boat has a washdown pump, the stink lingers. Haven't chewed through anything yet, but I've seen them chew another boat seat. I have zero food or bait on the boat to attract them. They seem to just like to have a floating safe palace to camp. Would love to hear suggestions how to keep them off.
 
I’ve had success with liberal applications of Critter Ridder around my boat and dock at False Creek . They moved on
 
We have our boat moored on our private dock on Galiano Island and have been having problems with otters continually using the boat as a bathroom for the last few years. We have a black cover that warms up during the day and the otters love to lay on it and cr@p during the night making the cover a massive smelly mess. We've tried all the recommended remedies, moth balls, cayenne pepper and nothing worked until we found this on Amazon. It's called Hulppre . https://www.amazon.ca/HULPPRE-Upgraded-Outdoor-Unwanted-Explorers/dp/B0BZS7Q538. Since we placed this on the dock near our boat we haven't had any otters on the dock nearby for the two months we've installed it. They have moved about 20 feet away behind another boat to an area outside the motion sensor range. I would highly recommend if you haven't found a fix.
 
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We have our boat moored on our private dock on Galiano Island and have been having problems with otters continually using the boat as a bathroom for the last few years. We have a black cover that warms up during the day and the otters love to lay on it and cr@p during the night making the cover a massive smelly mess. We've tried all the recommended remedies, moth balls, cayenne pepper and nothing worked until we found this on Amazon. It's called Hulppre . https://www.amazon.ca/HULPPRE-Upgraded-Outdoor-Unwanted-Explorers/dp/B0BZS7Q538. Since we placed this on the dock near our boat we haven't had any otters on the dock nearby for the two months we've installed it. They have moved about 20 feet away behind another boat to an area outside the motion sensor range. I would highly recommend if you haven't found a fix.
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Awesome suggestion for private dock or moored boat! Thanks!
 
I've just purchased a second one to see if we can completely remove them. I'll be able to cover the area they are currently hiding
 
They use to eat on the pod and **** all over it. I would wash it off and sure enough they would come back. I purchased a big bag of crushed chilly peppers from the East Indian food store and spread them all over the pod. never came back.

They oved to the boat over from me and they would get under the back deck tarp. I owner purchased a motion detector toy which was battery operated. as soon as the otter got near the toy it would detect them and start rolling around and off they went. As soon as they were gone the toy would stop. I don't know what the toy was or called.

Good luck, because they destroy everything and smell
 
Had a year long battle with minks . They drug fish / crab anything you can think of behind the gunnels and into the hull, **** and pissed everywhere . Stink to high hell and could not keep them out . One day running to sandheads one poked its head out in the cuddy. Trapped it underneath the bed up front and tried to trap it in a box . When it bit through my buddies extratuff boot all hell broke loose . We ended up with one flat mink and allot of cleanup . We ended up fixing our problem with expanded steel and spray foam .
 
My friend created a souped up version of carpet strip. 1x4 treated with stainless screws protruding 1.5” that he leaves on the swim grid. Otter party over
 
Last summer we were tied up at Comox and I woke up at around 3 am to what sounded like people running on the dock back and forth by our boat.

I got up and turned the spotlight on the dock and lit them up. Otters Mom , dad and 5 kits.

I woke up my wife who loves otters and she spent the next few hours watching and filming them them run back and forth as Father Otter taught them all how to take a dump on top of his dump.

I will try and find the movie because the dumping tail action is hilarious (when it is not on your boat).

The next morning my OCD habit of running dock lines back to the boat had paid off becasue those folks who coil their excess line in a Flemish Flake dockside had had their flakes otterized.

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