WARNING! Check your boat seats!
Posted: June 13th, 2008, 11:17 pm
It's been about 5 months since I cranked the boat, so I decided I needed to crank it. Earlier this evening, I decided to get the boat out from under the shelter and back it into the pond in the front yard and crank it and run it around the pond, just to let it run basically. Well, I hooked the trailer to the truck and pulled it to the pond. I backed it into the pond, unhooked it from the trailer and pulled the boat over to the bank so i could climb in. When i climbed in and touched the seat, I found a very unpleasant suprise. Yellow jackets, (or that's what I think they are), have built a nest either in or under the seat. I started jumping around the boat like a crazy person, swatting at something that sounded like .22 bullets zinging around my head, and ended up jumping in the pond to escape. All in all I have 14 stings on me, mostly on my arms and legs and a few on my face and head. What I need to know is, how do I get rid of them? I can't see the nest. All I can see is them buzzing around the seat, but believe me, I know they are there!!! They are smaller than a bee or wasp, so Dad said they were yellow jackets. I sprayed the seat with wasp spray hoping to make them go away. All I know is, from now on I'm cranking my boat more often and gonna try to get the wife to check the seats from now on! I guess I should be glad I didn't trailer it all the way to the flats and THEN find the bees!
