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[Charlie Jones s/v Tehani]

June of this year a friend and I trailed my 21 footer to Pensacola for the BEER Cruise. We launched and went out into P'cola bay for a shake down. Hard dinghy attached
Came back in because winds were blasting. Got all tied up-no dinghy. Never did locate it. Have bought a new inflatable

 

[Serenity on Hudson]

Looked up at the windex yesterday and my "I sail therefore I am" hat went for its own sail. Took too long to get the net and I watched it float down river and slowly sink to the fishes. I have a spare if I can find it.

 

[Tally Ho]

I went out in some nasty conditions today...30 knot gusts on the south end of Lake Michigan.

Mom and sister out. Put them in life jackets just in case. Things were a bit gnarly for sure.

Had to jibe at one point, thought I controlled it very well, but still ripped the main from the reef crinkle to the rope bolt ;-(.

Heck of a sail, but bummed about the sail. But I think it is the original 30-year old sail....so time to pony up some cash for a new one.

Going to try to tape it up tomorrow and see if we can finish the season on it.

Greg

I forgot to mention that in all of the excitement of tearing the sail and trying to get it down, I lost my favorite Maui hat....now I need to take the Admiral back to the Islands so I can get a new hat.

Greg

 

[jssailem]

now I need to take the Admiral back to the Islands

That sounds like the beginning of a nice 2 weeks.

 

[Will Gilmore]

A customer, learning over the side of our headboats to watch a fish being reeled in, lost his teeth. Back then, we anchored and fished in about 100' of water between 60 - 90 miles offshore. The guy asked the captain, my father's business partner, what he was going to do to get his teeth back.
The captain said, "Leave your name and number with the ticket booth when we get back. If we catch a grouper wearing your teeth, we'll call you."

-Will (Dragonfly)

 

[danstanford]

I lost the big rear bow frame for my Bimini in about 10' of the muddiest water you can imagine getting the boat ready in the spring. Not knowing how much a new one might cost as I figured they were custom made for the boat, I called a diver who told me he would be there in a week and that it would cost $ 400.00 successful or not. I have a telescoping boat hook so I extended it out all the way and pushed it down into the water never touching bottom which made me wonder if I could touch bottom so I laid down in the cockpit with my head out over the swim platform and pushed until my arm was in to the elbow....and I felt something....so I carefully tried to figure out which way the hook was facing now! After feeling like I had something hooked I carefully lifted it up eventually seeing the chrome frame in the murky water. I learned a lesson but apparently Poseidon keeps track as the following year the same frame knocked my prescription glasses off at the same dock.

 

[Grotto]

lost a Tilley (hat)....15 yrs on my noggin'......pricey, but they replaced it no charge regardless, highly recommend...

My Tilly is 23 yrs old got it camping right after college. How do they stay in business making such awesome hats

 

[agprice22]

lost a Tilley (hat)....15 yrs on my noggin'......pricey, but they replaced it no charge regardless, highly recommend...

Wait... I FOUND a Tilley hat! Oh... I found the owner too.

 

[agprice22]

My wife dropped her new iphone in 12ft of water at the dock. We could see it sitting there, the screen still working. I swam down and got it. It fried as I was coming up. I guess I should have turned it off down there!

 

[agprice22]

My anchor! Rolled right off the bow as I was turning to get the shackle. It hung on a bow line for a moment. I reached for it, and it was gone... I dove right down in clear water, but I could not find it. I had a friend offer to dive for it. He is a wreck diver in the finger lakes. He could not find it either.
About 2 months later, with the sun at the right angle to light the bottom under the docks, I found it. It had glided 10-12 ft forward in 12 ft of water. It was under the bow of the boat across the dock from me. I dove in to get it, and that was when I learned that I could NOT hold a 35 lb anchor with one hand over my head in the water while just kicking. Defeated after several attempts to put it in the hands of a person on the dock, I snapped a shackle on it, and had it hauled to the surface. Ironically, I never even put an anchor on the boat now. There is almost nowhere to anchor on the South end of Seneca.

 

[Will Gilmore]

My Tilly is 23 yrs old got it camping right after college. How do they stay in business making such awesome hats

High windage profile design.

-Will (Dragonfly)

 

[Meriachee]

Almost lost my prized Telegraph Harbour hat on the Spirit of British Columbia today. Does almost qualify? How about being on a ferry?
No matter. We’re going to Fish on Fifth, so y’all can gladly debate it without us.

 

[Tally Ho]

That sounds like the beginning of a nice 2 weeks.

3 weeks this February. Love getting out of Chicago in February !

Greg

 

[Charlie Jones s/v Tehani]

3 weeks this February. Love getting out of Chicago in February !

Greg

HAH! Drove through Chicago on the weekend after the 4th of July, on a Sunday morning-took three and half hours!!!

 

[Tally Ho]

HAH! Drove through Chicago on the weekend after the 4th of July, on a Sunday morning-took three and half hours!!!

Takes 5 hours on the first day it snows.

 

[marcham]

10mm 1/4 drive socket, then a 10mm wrench followed by a 10mm 3/8 drive socket, with the ratchet! All lost off the stern in a 30 minute time span while securing a solar panel... I stopped and carried on the next day.

 

[sailme88]

A brand new pair of Native sunglasses.
Solo sailing with a significant breeze. The Genoa sheet lost it's bite in the self tailing jaws. While resetting the sheet, it was wildly flogging. One of the synewave flogs caught me on the glasses bow. They fell off in slow motion, landed on the combing, bounced to the outboard deck and hopped over the toe rail and slowly spiraled down into the darkness...

 

[Rich Stidger]

I lost a 2-week old chartkit in a vinyl envelope over the side on my way back from Block Island. $100 worth of charts gone before I knew it. These were the days of Loran, and charts were used all the time.
I was so mad.

 

[LLoyd B]

At the end of the weekend and back at the ramp frantic search for the boat hook that no longer exists above the water. Though that happened years ago I still find myself looking for it occasionally even though I replaced it with one that really floats( periodically tested by the way)

 

[ShawnL]

Just a hat -- one of my favorites. A friend and I were sailing my old SailFish. It could also be a flying-fish, 1950's vintage that my dad built -- I'm not sure. I could fell the hat fly off and decided that I was going after it. So off the side I went. Of course I forgot that my friend couldn't sail and that we'd had a couple of adult beverages (we had them in a mesh bag, secured to the mast). So of course, not hat and had to swim to the over-turned boat and get it back upright again. It was a nice hat.

I was at my mooring last season and someone from near me in the field asked if I saw their boat hook as I was coming into the field. Apparently one of their kids had thrown it overboard getting it ready and they were having a tough time picking up their mooring without it. They did eventually find it.

Also, almost had to dive on my boat in 50 degree weather to free a mooring line from the keel. Captain's note -- haul the boat before going on vacation (Lake Superior) in October. My family really did not want to see me drop my jeans and strap on a mask and fins and dive in to free the keel from the mooring line. Thankfully we got it, right before I took the plunge. Dodged a bullet there. That would have been a cold swim.