What Have You Dropped Overboard?
2008 in last ditch effort as our boat was pulling away from floating finger dock… and at a very odd angle… my 6'2" 250 lb. heavily muscled son hauled all his weight onto our boat by one basically unsupported railing-stanchion at entry door. Ripped the 31 year old stanchion’s torpedo’s bolts really loose. Sooo… a few days later I went to repair it. Reached into my right front pants pocket (where I keep my cash) to get a drill bit I’d brought along from home. As I stood on finger dock facing toward boat and pulled the bit out it had snagged my Sterling Silver money Clip; with around $400 cash in it. I watched as the clip with folded cash fluttered down disappearing underneath the boat. Eventually it would reach silt-mud some 10’ bellow (water is always murky – can see less than 3 feet into it). Well, the rest is history. I tried three times in different ways (including raking the mud with a special designed apparatus I’d concocted as well as having Diver John (an area bottom cleaner who berthed and lived in slip next to our boat) look for it with a 50/50 offer of splitting the cash. No luck! That stanchion’s torpedo base’s well repaired four bolts is the most expensive per square inch portion on our Tollycraft!
What have you dropped overboard and either never retrieved or did retrieve by sheer luck or perseverance?
To help get the ball rolling on this thread… Here’s a slightly modified post from TF Site Team Moderator “Pete B”.
“Sarca anchor rollers look great. For heaven's sake make sure it is well fixed on. When I bought my roller, I couldn't resist having a wee try on while down at the berth, and...you guessed it...it slipped and fell...initially down onto the dock, because I had hauled the boat well forward, but I neglected to tie it to something...it bounced twice, and hit the drink..! The water under my boat in the berth is 7m deep! Thank God a slip neighbour at the time, called Marty, was a live aboard at the time, and had diving gear. It cost me 2 cartons of beer though to get the roller back. Not good for the heart either.
2008 in last ditch effort as our boat was pulling away from floating finger dock… and at a very odd angle… my 6'2" 250 lb. heavily muscled son hauled all his weight onto our boat by one basically unsupported railing-stanchion at entry door. Ripped the 31 year old stanchion’s torpedo’s bolts really loose. Sooo… a few days later I went to repair it. Reached into my right front pants pocket (where I keep my cash) to get a drill bit I’d brought along from home. As I stood on finger dock facing toward boat and pulled the bit out it had snagged my Sterling Silver money Clip; with around $400 cash in it. I watched as the clip with folded cash fluttered down disappearing underneath the boat. Eventually it would reach silt-mud some 10’ bellow (water is always murky – can see less than 3 feet into it). Well, the rest is history. I tried three times in different ways (including raking the mud with a special designed apparatus I’d concocted as well as having Diver John (an area bottom cleaner who berthed and lived in slip next to our boat) look for it with a 50/50 offer of splitting the cash. No luck! That stanchion’s torpedo base’s well repaired four bolts is the most expensive per square inch portion on our Tollycraft!
What have you dropped overboard and either never retrieved or did retrieve by sheer luck or perseverance?
To help get the ball rolling on this thread… Here’s a slightly modified post from TF Site Team Moderator “Pete B”.
“Sarca anchor rollers look great. For heaven's sake make sure it is well fixed on. When I bought my roller, I couldn't resist having a wee try on while down at the berth, and...you guessed it...it slipped and fell...initially down onto the dock, because I had hauled the boat well forward, but I neglected to tie it to something...it bounced twice, and hit the drink..! The water under my boat in the berth is 7m deep! Thank God a slip neighbour at the time, called Marty, was a live aboard at the time, and had diving gear. It cost me 2 cartons of beer though to get the roller back. Not good for the heart either.