Stuff that goes in the drink

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breausaw

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This last weekend was a dozy for stuff going overboard. I was unhooking the camper back at the stern behind my cooler and knocked over a 5 gal bucked that was sitting on top, jumped up to grab the net and knocked the cutting board loose and lost a small tackle box and Leatherman; :amgry got the bucked back. Than we were out in the dink while mom cooked dinner, I had a Cobra 2-way radio clipped to my vest, when I leaned over the side it flew in the drink. :thdown It was the first time we ever used the little 2 ways, usually take the hand held VHF with us. Then when we got home I notice one of our heavy rods was missing, :x not sure if it went in the drink or hit the pavement.
In three years the only item I can remember going over was a tin cup while washing it and a pair of needle nose pliers.
So learned some lessons and need to do some modifications: buy floating 2 way radios, do a better job of securing the cutting table to the cooler top, unhook the camper back at the bottom before leaving port, and make sure the fishing poles are secure in their holders.

So just wondering what others have lost over the side.
 
Last year I had what is know in the dental world as a "flipper". It's a retainer with a fake tooth attached. I needed this for cosmetic reasons while my dental implant healed; it's a long process that can take months. Anyway, it was nearly impossible to eat wit the damn thing in, so I usually pulled it out, depending on the setting etc. Well, after the Bellingham GT, we ran up to Sucia for a night.

Picture; eating a nice broiled halibut dinner w/ white wine in the cockpit @ Shallow Bay. Meredith finished first and begins cleaning up...by dumping some scraps over the side. Along with my flipper. :o :x Just as it flipped off the plate we both were reacting...she said she saw it slowly sink out of sight. Too bad, so sad. GONE. A new one was $475.00 :x

I still have the new one, but no longer need it due to a beautiful new crown. Next time were at Shallow Bay we're having a ceremony to "bury" the new one at sea with the old one. :wink:
 
I lost a radio a couple years ago. I can give you the coordinates if you are interested. Didn't lose anything this weekend other than a halibut. I did "lunch" the windlass. It was a PowerWinch that I thoroughly hated and now get to replace. With this PowerWinch and the one I took off my 22, and one a friend is giving me, I now have quite a collection of PowerWinch parts. I'm not sure if I can make a working windlass out of all of them, but might try. If I get tired of working on them, I will give them to you Jay. You can make a sacrifice to the appropriate god of things gone overboard. Some things deserve to go overboard and some things don't. These need to go overboard.
 
three different nets
one truck and boat with trailer ( dont ask) hey I got the drive ( my nephew ) back!!!
5 knives over the years.
4 pliers
2 crab pots ( not including lost while used) .
2 rods , ok I threw one in anger but it had it coming.
and I cant remeber what else over the years.
 
Usually rum... um, what was the question? :wink:

Oh, that's not what you meant? Well, there was the time when I launched our small sailboat by myself and when I walked out on the dock I noticed that some dumbass lost his cell phone in the water... and it was still glowing... and then I checked my belt clip for my phone.

And I recall dropping a new windshield wiper arm off the bow of Wild Blue after spending an entire day in the heat and humidity trying to pull the old one off. I've tried to block that memory, but I seem to recall attacking the old assembly with a Dremmel. :evil:
 
When I was courting Dotty, some 50 years ago, I would regale here with sea stories of my then recent Navy days. Soon after our marriage we borrowed a canoe. Salty Marty put it in the water, stepped in one side and out the other, loosing my watch in the drink. That was the beginning of her "cognitive dissonance" about her new husband.
 
a) 2 - yes two - cel phones (who was the first fish going to talk to if I didn't put another one on the drink?).
b) 1 net.
c) My breakfast or lunch (on more than one occasion).
d) One of the very first salmon I caught on the new boat when I attempted to put it in the starboard lazarrette (which I had asked to have configured as a fish box). At the time the hatch on the starboard side opened towards the cockpit making it difficult to reach around it to put a fish in. I rotated that hatch 180 degrees within a few days after that event. I also complained about the design to the factory and the starboard hatches have been installed rotated ever since.
e) At least one pair of needle nose pliers.
 
In 2000 I was preparing for my first trip up the Inside Passage. We had a
17' Boston Whaler (Montauk) at the time, and I had a custom "dodger" made for the bow so I'd have someplace to roll-out my sleepingbag on the AK trip. The dodger framework was finished and the canvas guy suggested that I take the boat out and see how it held up.

I did, and the WHOLE DAMN THING pulled loose and went over, into the sea. Happily, the dodger itself wasn't attached. The shop made good on the framework, but it cost them the profit on the job, I'm sure.

I may still have the lat/lon where it went overboard (about ten miles off Key West) if anyone want's to go get it (in about 280' of water as I recall).

Best,
Casey
 
the sun glass commit made me remember not only the 10 pairs of those I have lost but a few hats too.

In the parking lot of Folsom lake Ca is a guy selling sun glass out of his van. He sells them cheap, even the big name ones. I ask why they were so cheap for high end glasses thinking they were hot. He points at the beach and then shows me his dive gear. The swim beach at the lake is large. about a mile long and 100 yards out to the rope line. the bottom is fairly flat and sandy. Got to talking to the guy and he marks every pair he sells. Then he kept track of Re-sales! half of the glasses he sales are ones hes sold and recovered before. He sold one set 9 times in a year.

Out standing business model for a summer job.
 
Personally I think the award for the most valuable object lost overboard would go to Sawdust. "Dusty" Lampman managed to lose an entire aircraft off his ship at the time - and he was in it!

Well, to be fair, he did fly it around a bit and play "Shoot 'em up" first. (WW2)

Don :lol:
 
Yeah, I think Dusty would win in any contest! Have not heard from the "old salt" lately, how you doin' Dusty?

Personally, all I ever drop over the side are things that don't float. :disgust

Charlie
 
Sneaks":2iss9umz said:
Personally I think the award for the most valuable object lost overboard would go to Sawdust. "Dusty" Lampman managed to lose an entire aircraft off his ship at the time - and he was in it!

Well, to be fair, he did fly it around a bit and play "Shoot 'em up" first. (WW2)

Don :lol:
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Yeah...I'd say that beats a "flipper"...and I bet he got a lot more chicks with THAT than I did. :wink: :lol:
 
A friend dropped a USMC jeep into the ocean off Puerto Rico when auto release cargo hook on an H34 interpreted an up draft/down draft as being load on the ground. Oh well -- jeeps were cheap 50 years ago.

Bill Uffelman
Las Vegas NV
 
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