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06-11-2010, 13:05
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Guest
Join Date: Jul 2010
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Things You've Lost Overboard . . .
The most common items a new sailor maight lose.
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06-11-2010, 13:33
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Posts: 741
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Besides his/her mind, temper? It is a boat after all.
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06-11-2010, 13:33
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cruiser
Join Date: May 2010
Location: SF Bay Area; Former Annapolis and MA Liveaboard.
Boat: Looking and saving for my next...mid-atlantic coast
Posts: 6,197
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a screwdriver
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06-11-2010, 13:36
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cat herder, extreme blacksheep
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: furycame alley , tropics, mexico for now
Boat: 1976 FORMOSA yankee clipper 41
Posts: 18,967
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what HASNT fallen overboard--INCLUDING animals and humans...(not me , yet)
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06-11-2010, 13:40
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Gulfport, MS
Boat: Beneteau 393
Posts: 954
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- fenders.*
- key for fill valves.*
- handheld GPS.*
- crab pot.*
- cell phone.*
- sunglasses.*
- hats.*
- winch handle.
- beer (processed through your system).*
- wife and/or 2 year old kid.*
* = happened to me.
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06-11-2010, 13:42
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2008
Posts: 2,197
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My girlfriend bought me a nice pair of binoculars back in my early sailing days. I saw something I wanted to look at and went below to get them. As I came up through the hatch I stumbled and over the side they went. Never even got to use them on the boat. 
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Mike
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06-11-2010, 13:46
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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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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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06-11-2010, 13:56
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Long Range Cruiser
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Australian living on "Sea Life" currently in England.
Boat: Beneteau 393 "Sea Life"
Posts: 12,822
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Putting sunglasses / prescription glasses in top shirt pocket then bending over to look in the water...
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06-11-2010, 14:00
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: NSW AUSTRALIA
Boat: L. Francis Herreshoff H28 Ketch & Brisol 24 @ 25'
Posts: 1,181
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Screwdrivers are at the top of my list closely followed by nuts (Although there have been a few human “nuts” I was much gladder to get rid of I am talking “nuts” as in nuts and bolts). Both are nice and round and roll merrily away. It doesn’t take you too long to learn to position the dingy under anywhere you are working especially after something a bit more irreplaceable like a windlass plate goes over.
One of the other first victims was a towel left drying over the boom never to be seen again.
Another victim seems to be mobile phones. Till last Sunday the record was just a couple of dunkings. Then this wind squall funnelled down a gorge and knocked me over in the estuary. Somewhere in the fracas my phone conveniently in its waterproof case must have floated away as the cockpit flooded. I have configured a rule since that anything in the cockpit of importance must be secured with a shark clip. Unfortunately I only had enough clips to secure my GPS, torch and flare container; I must buy more!
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Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. - Voltaire
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06-11-2010, 14:04
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: NSW AUSTRALIA
Boat: L. Francis Herreshoff H28 Ketch & Brisol 24 @ 25'
Posts: 1,181
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Quote:
Originally Posted by zeehag
what HASNT fallen overboard--INCLUDING animals and humans...(not me , yet) |
Opps, I should have listed the dog! He has only done it once off the boat at sea. I am sure he tripped on a sheet when I dived over spear fishing. Nevertheless, he has gone off floating berths many times while playing with kids and other dogs.
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Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. - Voltaire
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06-11-2010, 14:10
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2009
Boat: Nassau 42 SV Ceol Mor
Posts: 789
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My car keys. The only set I had.
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06-11-2010, 14:12
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: NSW AUSTRALIA
Boat: L. Francis Herreshoff H28 Ketch & Brisol 24 @ 25'
Posts: 1,181
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkJ
Putting sunglasses / prescription glasses in top shirt pocket then bending over to look in the water... |
I got myself one of those big rubber straps for my prescription glasses. Even on land I rarely ever take it off just in case it is not there when I need it. Who cares if I look like some sort of dork with goggles?
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Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. - Voltaire
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06-11-2010, 14:19
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Philippines in the winters
Boat: It’s in French Polynesia now
Posts: 11,369
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I went overboard and lost my best scraper. 
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Faithful are the Wounds of a Friend, but the Kisses of the Enemy are Deceitful! ........
The measure of a man is how he navigates to a proper shore in the midst of a storm!
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06-11-2010, 14:20
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Australia, Hervey Bay QLD
Boat: Boden 36 Triple chine long keel steel, named Nekeyah
Posts: 909
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Boathook last week. On my own, windy. Sat it on the cabin top and it bounced overboard.
Ended up bringing the mooring alongside the cockpit and getting one foot under the rope, whilst hanging from the lifelines.
Collected the boathook using our dinghy. Went out and bought a spare hook!
Regards, Richard.
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06-11-2010, 14:41
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Moderator
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: La Ciudad de la Misión Didacus de Alcalá en Alta California, Virreinato de Nueva España
Boat: Cal 20
Posts: 21,045
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Wallet
Watch
Keys
Glasses
Winch Handle
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Num Me Vexo?
For all of your celestial navigation questions: https://navlist.net/
A house is but a boat so poorly built and so firmly run aground no one would think to try and refloat it.
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