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The end of the boom on my Beneteau 361 does not have a cap on it, and I think it's designed that way. Is it customary to have the end of the boom open? The reason I ask is because I had to stop a couple of swallows from building a nest in my boom this weekend. The previous owner had the rather cheap solution of putting masking tape over the end, but that broke down in the elements and I neglected to apply more tape before I noticed the birds. Fortunately I saw no evidence of eggs yet, so I put duct tape there. There's got to be a better solution though, right? I noticed a number of Catalina 380s in the slips near me with the same problem. Is this just not a big deal that people don't care about?
The boom on my Catalina 25 had it's end capped, so I never had to worry about it.
The boom on my Catalina 25 had it's end capped, so I never had to worry about it.