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22-06-2018, 15:02
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Marine Service Provider
Join Date: Feb 2011
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Really clever idea!
One of the people on sailboatowners.com said he "stumbled across this photo and had to share it"...and I think it's worth sharing again:
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22-06-2018, 15:07
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: W Carib
Boat: Wildcat 35, Hobie 33
Posts: 13,479
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Re: Really clever idea!
+1. Thats a fine idea!
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22-06-2018, 15:14
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2016
Boat: Pearson 33-2
Posts: 375
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Re: Really clever idea!
That's cheating.
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22-06-2018, 15:20
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2018
Location: New Zealand
Boat: 50’ Bavaria
Posts: 1,809
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Re: Really clever idea!
I’d have two more hex bits than I have if I’d thought of that the other week...
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22-06-2018, 17:24
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: Jacksonville/ out cruising
Boat: Island Packet 38
Posts: 31,351
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Re: Really clever idea!
I’d do that, and watch whatever bounce like on a trampoline and into the water
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22-06-2018, 17:43
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Marine Service Provider
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Re: Really clever idea!
Quote:
Originally Posted by a64pilot
I’d do that, and watch whatever bounce like on a trampoline and into the water
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Someone on sbo.com suggested that putting a towel in the umbrella would eliminate the bounce problem.
--Peggie
"If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't completely understand it yourself." --Albert Einstein
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22-06-2018, 17:48
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Senior Cruiser
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: 29° 49.16’ N 82° 25.82’ W
Boat: Pearson 422
Posts: 16,306
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Re: Really clever idea!
Quote:
Originally Posted by a64pilot
I’d do that, and watch whatever bounce like on a trampoline and into the water
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Yep. That's how it goes with me. I swear I could be below decks, drop an essential screw and it would somehow bounce up the companionway and into the water.
Although, once coming back from the Caribbean to FL I got water in my starter (don't ask) and hoped I could take it apart, clean, dry and maybe crank the engine again.
Got the starter off, sat down on the edge of the cockpit (with the drains plugged) to disassemble. Got to the rotor, slid it out and about hundred million ball bearings jumped out and scattered everywhere. I figured I was dead but started hunting bearings and managed to find every one and actually got the starter back together and working. I figure I used up my whole lifetime of loose parts karma in that one incident.
An old friend of mine used to rebuild all kinds of mechanical gadgets. Anytime he was working on a bit with small, irreplaceable parts he would tape over the drain and work in the bathtub. Of course he was a bit strange in other ways as well.
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22-06-2018, 17:51
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Senior Cruiser
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: 29° 49.16’ N 82° 25.82’ W
Boat: Pearson 422
Posts: 16,306
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Re: Really clever idea!
Quote:
Originally Posted by peghall
Someone on sbo.com suggested that putting a towel in the umbrella would eliminate the bounce problem.
--Peggie
"If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't completely understand it yourself." --Albert Einstein
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For it to work for me I would have to line the umbrella with extra sticky, double sided tape.
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The water is always bluer on the other side of the ocean.
Sometimes it's necessary to state the obvious for the benefit of the oblivious.
Rust is the poor man's Loctite.
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23-06-2018, 20:21
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: sydney, australia
Boat: 38 roberts ketch
Posts: 1,309
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Re: Really clever idea!
Quote:
Originally Posted by a64pilot
I’d do that, and watch whatever bounce like on a trampoline and into the water
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see... thisaway you get some entertainment before the plop.
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24-06-2018, 03:27
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Senior Cruiser
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: gettin naughty on the beach in cornwall
Boat: 63 custom alloy sloop,macwester26,prout snowgoose 37 elite catamaran!
Posts: 10,594
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Re: Really clever idea!
i doubt that umbrella is strong enough to catch either one of those guys......
they should be wearing life vests in case they fall in.
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24-06-2018, 04:27
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Southern Maine
Boat: Prairie 36 Coastal Cruiser
Posts: 3,081
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Re: Really clever idea!
All the parts on MY boat are way too smart to fall for that trick.
They'd bounce off the gunwale, or a railing, or my foot, and do a perfect 10.0 swan dive into the water. I think I've seen them turn around to laugh at me as they sink.
I've never seen them bounce up the companionway hatch (maybe those are the ones I never found?) but they do seem to crawl to the most inaccessible parts of the bilges, or into the tiny crevasses between large, immovable items like engines and tanks.
Lately, my most adventurous parts have been the tiny slotted screws in electrical connections. Since you often have to hold the screw with one hand, the wire with another, and the screwdriver with a third, I generally run out of hands about 2/3 of the way through. And of course, the connections are always in a location where only one hand fits anyway. The manufacturers can't use Phillips head screws, because then you'd only need two hands, and you'd have a fighting chance of getting the screw back in before losing it.
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24-06-2018, 04:42
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Senior Cruiser
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: 29° 49.16’ N 82° 25.82’ W
Boat: Pearson 422
Posts: 16,306
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Re: Really clever idea!
Quote:
Originally Posted by CaptTom
Since you often have to hold the screw with one hand, the wire with another, and the screwdriver with a third, I generally run out of hands about 2/3 of the way through. And of course, the connections are always in a location where only one hand fits anyway. The manufacturers can't use Phillips head screws, because then you'd only need two hands, and you'd have a fighting chance of getting the screw back in before losing it.
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You do know the trick of putting a glob of some appropriately thick and sticky goop on head of the screw to get it to more or less stick to the tip of the screwdriver? I usually grab whatever is handy like thick grease, Vaseline, lanolin or similar. Works best with Phillips head but reasonably well with slotted screws as well.
Installing new wires or replacing old ones to my electrical panel is one of those only one hand fits jobs and this is about the only way I can get a screw into the breaker. Of course this job requires one hand for the screwdriver, one to hold the wire and another to hold the other wires out of the way so I still run out of hands.
Also, for those infrequent times when something manages to fall into the bilge under the engine instead of over the side get one of these. One of the most often used tools on my boat.
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The water is always bluer on the other side of the ocean.
Sometimes it's necessary to state the obvious for the benefit of the oblivious.
Rust is the poor man's Loctite.
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24-06-2018, 04:44
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2016
Location: Brisbane Australia
Boat: Schionning Waterline 1480
Posts: 1,987
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Re: Really clever idea!
Quote:
Originally Posted by skipmac
Yep. That's how it goes with me. I swear I could be below decks, drop an essential screw and it would somehow bounce up the companionway and into the water.
Although, once coming back from the Caribbean to FL I got water in my starter (don't ask) and hoped I could take it apart, clean, dry and maybe crank the engine again.
Got the starter off, sat down on the edge of the cockpit (with the drains plugged) to disassemble. Got to the rotor, slid it out and about hundred million ball bearings jumped out and scattered everywhere. I figured I was dead but started hunting bearings and managed to find every one and actually got the starter back together and working. I figure I used up my whole lifetime of loose parts karma in that one incident.
An old friend of mine used to rebuild all kinds of mechanical gadgets. Anytime he was working on a bit with small, irreplaceable parts he would tape over the drain and work in the bathtub. Of course he was a bit strange in other ways as well.
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Tried to put smiley faces on but something has gone wrong. Now it's just awkward. Any way..............
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24-06-2018, 04:50
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cruiser
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Pangaea
Posts: 10,856
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Re: Really clever idea!
An excellent idea, thanks for sharing.
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24-06-2018, 05:38
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Moderator and Certifiable Refitter
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: South of 43 S, Australia
Boat: C.L.O.D.
Posts: 20,242
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Re: Really clever idea!
So an umbrella is useful on a boat, now about that wheelbarrow...
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