Magnetic stainless

[All U Get]

Hi all,

I had been working on our boat bottom sanding and painting in anticipation of a launch this week. A friend offered an afternoon sail and I was quick to take the offer. We were soon on our way.
Here's where we test Einstein's theory on time slowing down as we marveled about how we raced along at 4 knots. We were soon to test two hopotheses, time standing still and the magnetic quality of stainless. Yep, went forward to change a line by undoing a shackle. As soon as any stainless piece is undone, time slows to a point where you cannot move and helplessly watch as the hardware floating through the air. It is then that the magnetic attraction of the water beckons the floating stainless item and draws it into the drink. Is it a sailors lot to fill the oceans with stainless?
Still a good day sailing.

All U Get

 

[Ron20324]

That's when you could use the MOB feature of a chart plotter... you can go back and get the piece

 

[Griffinroydonald]

The water seems to draw tools and anything with a value of more than $5. I have everything tied on lanyards now as I have learned my lesson.

 

[kloudie1]

Certainly I have found that my stainless and some types of tools are definitely NOT magnetic.. but they are highly hydrophylic.. and they attract more than water vapor, too!..

 

[patrickfarley]

I just sacrificed my reading glasses to the sea gods. I no longer sacrifice sunglasses because I buy the kind with the soft rubber on the tips to hold them on. I am new to the world of reading glasses and will have to learn a method to overcome their magnetism to deep water.

It's amazing how slowly things seem to fall in the water. However, they sure disappear quickly.

 

[sailaway78]

Me too

I have found lots of things that have the magnetic attraction to water. The water around my dock has several pairs of reading glasses, sun glasses and various tools. And stainless is effected, as my satinless Gerber multi purpose literally jumped into the water.

 

[victorhoisington]

One of the rules I have also noticed, is that things are attracted to the sea based upon their relative importance, the more important an item is to the task at hand the quicker it seems to dissapear. Cotter rings are as likely to jump overboard as a snap shackle but, only if they are holding something important like the back stay.

Fair winds,

Victor

 

[Ralph Johnstone]

Never Lost Anything in the Drink .......................

Is it a sailors lot to fill the oceans with stainless?
Still a good day sailing.

.................... rather I choose to store many of my wrenches, screwdrivers, pliers, shackles, assorted nuts and bolts, and other assorted etceteras under the boat so that I know where they are when I need them :cussing:.

 

[alexco38]

My progressive glasses costed $700. It's in Davy Jones's locker now.

 

[Ward H]

I love how the stainless items seem to tease you by bouncing on the deck a couple of times before jumping in the water. Some like to roll around first just to make you think you can catch it before it goes over the side.
I learned to buy the cheater reading glasses by the 3 pack to keep on the boat.

 

[Roadking Larry]

Lowered my main to set a reef and the sail track stop fell out and sat on the deck spinning. If I hadn't had a spare it would have slid right off intot he water.

 

[Witzend]

I went up the mask to install my new Raymarine wind transducer a few years ago. I had it in a 5 gal. bucked, just the connector end sticking out. About halfway up a big wave rocked my boat (dam stink pots) :cussing:and the rigging caught the very end and flipped the transducer out of the bucket and into the water. I was in ~8' of water on a mooring but had a good idea where it went down. First time down in the muddy Elk river with a 2knt current I put my hands right on it! It is still working on the top of my mask. That little incident has eaten up all my get out of jail card for the rest on my life, now whatever is near the water just jumps in out of fright.

 

[shemandr]

There's a known corollary to Murphy's Law which holds that not only will you drop your most expensive tool into the drink when working at the top of the mast, but also that it will break the binnacle compass before falling overboard. Credit to a book about Murphy's law which I can't remember the name of.

 

[woodster]

Ya know that very special tool......

the one that you wish would fall over board because you dont even like the damn thing....well it never does....while all the cool ones seem to find the water even when you are not even useing them:cussing:

regaeds

woody

 

[Maine Sail]

Where you are right now stuff should be easy to find when dropped over board.... Boat looks good BTW! I was over there changing Roger's cutlass bearing today and saw her on the hard with the crane working atop the spar...

 

[Ray Bowles]

A real test of the "time slowing down" was the last time I dropped my phone into the water at the launching dock. It read 20 seconds at the time I first saw it, 2 minutes 5 seconds by the time I stripped out of my pants and into swimming appropiate pants, 2 min 30 sec and she was in my hands under 8 feet of water and by 3 minutes it was resting on the cockpit coaming. We all know what happens here...I bumped the little bastard back into the water when trying to pick it up with my numb frozen hands. At about 7 minutes 10 seconds she quit displaying readable numbers. Sometime in the next 48 hours a fisherman "power loading" his boat must have moved her into deeper water and I entered the line for the new I phone.
Ray

 

[All U Get]

Where you are right now stuff should be easy to find when dropped over board.... Boat looks good BTW! I was over there changing Roger's cutlass bearing today and saw her on the hard with the crane working atop the spar...

I spent the last two hot weeks in a tyvek suit sanding the bottom and fixing some issues. I got tired climbing the mast so I asked the yard to fix the anchor light that forgot to duck under the bridge at Morehead City. Had a chance to do a little buffing and waxing, but back in the water now and ready for the next project.

All U Get

 

[DougM]

Aluminum is hydro-magnetic too. Th original equipment winch handles on my boat have proven that. They do several somersaults in the air as they exit the top of the winch then pause momentarily before splashing. The locking types last a little longer.

 

[rgranger]

On my boat the attraction has been for hand held VHF radios, cell phones and winch handles.

I now have pipe insulation on my winch handle (kept on with zip ties) and have now recovered my winch handle once because of the floatation.. and Bass Pro Shop floats on my VHF. We remain concerned about the well being of the cell phones.

 

[Griffinroydonald]

I have cleaned up around the pier several times and you would not believe the stuff laying on the bottom.Tools,Trash, Even jewelery has been found. I had a pile of anchors at one time and gave them away. I hope this is never corrected as I love finding this stuff.