I was down at the boat today getting things ready for a summer trip. The weather is perfect, sunny and about seven knots of breeze. Not many people down at the marina just the occasional barking of a sea lion and the sound of the wind generators spinning in the wind . I had my head in the lazarette trying to readjust the fenders that I store there when it sounded like one of the wind generators threw a blade. When I pulled my head out there were bees. Lots and lots of bees!
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I dove down below and started closing all the hatches as quickly as I could, but the main hatch was sitting in the aft section of the cockpit. I draped one of the cockpit cushions over the opening and called the marina office from the cabin. Peering out of the ports I could see the bees were starting to congregate on the dock box next to my boat.
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The Intrepid Marina manager himself came down to see what he could do but was chased off by the bees.
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Luckily he came back and was able to scare them off of the dock box, so they started to swarm on my bow pulpit.
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The marina manager called me and said we'll just have to wait it out. Sure enough he was right and a half an hour later the bees have moved on. Happy summer all.
