.....on a lighter note; what have you donated to King Neptune? Lets hear about it, especially if it was your tow vehicle, please confess!
My list: one winch handle
2 full sail battons
2 hats
1 loaded 25auto pistol
1 rod and reel
1 unopened PowerAide at my slip that I'm gonna get back someday
Dennis
I can tell by this list that you haven't been on the water very long! I mean, it's an awful short list! Heck, I've lost at least 5 pairs of sunglasses in my life, which is probably a reasonably small number.
In the past 3 years, I've lost sail stops, 2 rolls of electrical tape, a roll of whipping twine, and leaned so far overboard trying to catch a dock line that I fell in! (I could have just got out of the boat and gone up on the dock to get that line back. But it was the slime line, and who want to handle the middle slimy portion of the slime line?)
A friend lost the cowling of her outboard. The following year, someone put on dive gear and found it!
And then there was the guy who was overhauling a friend's winch, and dropped something important from the winch guts. He free dove on it, maybe 10 feet, and actually found it!
I have a picture of Granddad sometime in October or early November, with a dive mask standing in the water at low tide off the dock. He had dropped his prescription glasses. I remember him telling me the story, and that the water was COLD.