Cat On Board

The kitty litter needs to be down wind somewhere around the stern area! It's the biggest problem having a cat onboard my Trim likes to flick it out all over the deck!
im not sure about bringing house hold cats onto boats as I brought mine on as a kitten and she seems quite happy when we cast the lines and head out.
shes been swimming 3 times now and I think she's got the message now not to fall in.
i have heard of passage makers loosing there beloved cats overboard never to be seen again....that would be really sad.

I brought my 3 cats on board in November, first whilst at the marina. They never left the boat at the marina, but I lost the oldest one overboard one night whilst anchored in the river. I never heard her fall in, just woke up and she was gone. Her daughter fell or jumped off a couple of weeks later on a very still moonless night. Maybe the river looking like glass had her fooled. I heard her splash right on midnight, and threw the hatch open and jumped out on deck calling her as I heard her splashing as the current carried her towards the stern. I was hanging over the side trying to reach her when she found my coil of rope that hangs just in the water near the stern. She was up it like a rat up a drainpipe. My other cat has never looked like falling in.

The kitty litter I keep in the cockpit if it's rainy but on dry days it's out on the deck unless we are sailing out at sea. They are wonderful company, and I would be devastated to lose either of them.

i'd love to have my kitty on board, but if he fell off and didn't make it back on board i'd be devastated!