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| Registered User ![]() Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Slovenia not Slovakia; gulf of Triest
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a bit of romance -> have u ever launched/ found a bottle message? i found it once from Germany and send my message on the address; i launched it once only |
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| Registered User ![]() Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: North of Baltimore
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I have with instructions to forward it to another person.......a person found e-mailed me....I don't know if they ever forwarded it.
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| Registered User ![]() Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Florida
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Once a Petrone bottle washed up on Melbourne Beach in Florida. There was a note written on homemade paper with a sterling silver ring inside. The note said, "If anyone finds this ring, I hope it brings them more happiness than it has brought to me."
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| Registered User ![]() Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Toronto
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When I was sailing my boat back from Buffalo, I re-capped two bottles and sent them adrift with my email address in them and some thoughtful points of wisedom within it. Although I think the sun and rum got to me, so I am sure what I wrote was just me writing the alphabet backwards or something. =)
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| Registered User ![]() Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Eastern Seaboard
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I found a bottle, also around Melbourne Beach, in 1987. The note inside said it was from grad student who was motoring to the Bahamas dropping several bottles at timed intervals as part of a Masters thesis, requesting we send him a postcard telling when and where we found it but warning he might not be able to do the same. I sent him the postcard and a few weeks later I got a response back. Not very romantic. But the walk on the beach at night was.
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| Registered User ![]() Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Lynnwood Washington
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| And who say's there's nothing to be found at the bottom of a bottle...
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| Registered User ![]() Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Caribbean - cruising
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We dropped off a bottle half way between Bermuda and The Azores recently. My guess it is still swirling around the Atlantic at this point.
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| Registered User ![]() Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Tampa Bay
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I did the same thing once. I was feeling particularly lonely and wrote a little love note to Mrs Knothead. I added a few dollar bills and tossed it overboard. It was found a few years later in the Bahamas and mailed to my wife. The wonderful people who mailed it asked to know the "rest of the story" but before my, less that romantic better half, got around to writing them she had lost their address. I still feel bad about that. | |
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| Registered User ![]() Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: STL MO
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I found one, the note inside read, "Return to sender-address unknown". My dad always said before he left this cold, cruel world, "Never trust anything that comes out of a bottle, whether it be booze or a blonde".
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| Registered User ![]() Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Ft.Lauderdale, Fl.
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True story First night out on a cruise ship leaving Miami on a week cruise I was on the top deck having a few too many bottles of wine with some new found friends. We got the great idea of writing notes in the empties and tossing them off the back of the boat. Three days after I got back there was a reply in the mail. It said " We got your message and are glad you had a good time the night you and your friends sent your messages. Though in the future we would appreciate you tossing them over the sides instead of on the lower deck as the broken glass could be hazardous to the crew below." Thanking you in advance Norwegian criuse line. |
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| Registered User ![]() Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: W Florida
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| Registered User ![]() Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: adelaide ,australia
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my daughter dropped a bottle over the side when we were crossing st vincent gulf approx 55 ks in adelaide back in 07 but sadly no replies to date
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| Registered User ![]() Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: So.Shore, Massachusetts
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Did some Cat sailing in Belize and launched a couple of clear plastic water bottles w messages. Its fun and if you have something 'worthwhile' to share its interesting. Its kind of like launching a balloon w a note attached and you may very well be surprised to get a letter back. I like the idea of including an e mail return address too.
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| Moderator ![]() Moderator Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Nevis, West Indies
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I sealed a note in an empty rum bottle, and dropped it into the Gulf Stream off Cape Hatteras in 2004. The note included our position, the date, the names of the crew onboard, and contact information including email and phone number. I also added a US$5 bill in hopes that the finder would call me. Unfortunately, with the decline in value of the Dollar, it would be a very short call today.
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