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shamrock
#1 Posted : Wednesday, November 24, 2010 5:15:45 AM(UTC)
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Last Thursday I went to West Marine and bought a new pole and brush, the longest they had, in order to reach those difficult to reach places on the M. I had put the new pole and brush in the bucket and started messing with the hose when I herd a splash. I looked up and saw the new brush and bucket sinking in about 30 feet of water. I ran and lying on the dock tried to grab the new brush as I stretched I slipped off the dock with one hand and foot on the dock half of me in the water I was in one hell of a mess. I would have yelled for help but no one was around. After a short struggle to pull myself up I decided to stop rest and try one moor time before having to swim out. I was able to finally pull my self out. That was when I discovered that my cell phone was missing too. I hope to learn from this. It could have been worse. I should have used the boat hook and or let the bucket and brush go; staying dry and safe was what was most important!

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#2 Posted : Wednesday, November 24, 2010 10:17:16 PM(UTC)
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Good Lord! And I thought that I had a bad day!

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mark klusman
#3 Posted : Wednesday, November 24, 2010 11:33:44 PM(UTC)
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Well Jeff, I'm glad your alright . Very big of you to tell that unfortunate mis-hap and sorry here about your loss's.. Would love to see all thats under the docks here. We here at are marina, and would happen to have an incident like that, or worse and someone see's it you carry the name of Harbour god around for a month............ CAPT. OVERBOARD..... I've had the name 3 or 4 times. All kidding aside, glad your OK and hope to see all at Concord Dec. 4.

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#4 Posted : Thursday, November 25, 2010 2:03:33 AM(UTC)
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Hate to here that Shamrock, Applause Glad to hear your okay. My expensive brush loss is no where near as dangerous as yours but I'll never forget the time I stressed to my daughter 100 times at least, that if she dropped my brand new sure hold brush with long ext handle she would be washing boats for free for 2 day's or owe me 75.00. guess what? 5 minutes later I left it in the bucket standing upright on top of a house boat, heard the splash and I new what I would hear next. "Guess what Dad, you owe 75.00 or 2 day's of hard labor"Brick wall . Anyway Maybe the fish's will grab that brush and keep yer keel clean. Happy Turkey dayApplause
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#5 Posted : Thursday, November 25, 2010 1:48:54 PM(UTC)
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I was getting off the boat once, missed the dock, and went right into the water. Nasty, not much flow in the marina so it gets slimy. Couldn't climb out because of the barnacles on the pilings and couldn't pull myself up onto the swim platform, too high. Finally the admiral managed to make a rope ladder out of spare line and I used it to get back out. Kind of scary at my age. I immediately left the ladder hanging from a cleat so someone in the water could pull it off the swim platform and use it, and I now have a folding ladder on the swim platform that can be deployed from the water.

I had never thought of it before but it is darned important to be able to get back into the boat!


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#6 Posted : Thursday, November 25, 2010 2:38:00 PM(UTC)
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Similar story here. While in a borrowed dinghy cleaning the boat sides, the unstable little craft tipped, tossing me into the drink. Couldn't get onto the swim platform as Doug describes and couldn't pull down the swim ladder because it was tied up high to keep it from falling into the water while underway. Took a chance on one of the marina's rotting swim ladders and luckily, it held just long enough for me to pull myself out (the rungs broke in the middle but there was just enough wood at the side of the rungs for me to get a toehold without getting punctured by a rusty nail.

I now know how to tie the boat's swim ladder so it can be release from the cockpit or the water -- that is to make a bungee attachment in two places, one up high (reachable from the cockpit) and the other down low so it can be accessed from the water.

The marina replaced all of it wooden ladders a few years ago with aluminum ones...I recall someone saying law or regulations require useable ladders.
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dependo
#7 Posted : Friday, November 26, 2010 12:02:20 AM(UTC)
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Wow, I bet that water was cold. I've droped so much that I keep a large magnet and a small graffel hook on the dock with a long cord and a float on the end of rope .Wayne
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shamrock
#8 Posted : Friday, November 26, 2010 12:36:01 AM(UTC)
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“CAPT. OVERBOARD.... “ I guess if the shoe fits wear it. Been using I magnet and a graffel hook, a nabor tested my magnet on his pole and brush with no attraction so it looks like more time with the graffel hook
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Docsnow
#9 Posted : Friday, November 26, 2010 1:18:39 AM(UTC)
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Most things used in daily marine life are made of nonferrous metals and/or plastic’s & magnets are useless
Brick wall Other things such as keys, eye glasses also elude magnet too. Usually all the magnet does is drive them deeper into the silt. I made up a rake outta & old leave rake took a heat gun to the tines to make the pocket of the tines bigger, then fitted it to the end of a old telescoping bow hook that works very well. This rake type more than likely wouldn’t work on such a large item as your AL & plastic brush but might grab that Cell PH. One thing to remember 99% of things dropped over board don’t go straight down Whistle

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dougrose
#10 Posted : Friday, November 26, 2010 1:39:20 AM(UTC)
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Norm, what you are describing sounds like a clam rake, used to be common in Florida before the development ruined the clam beds. I wonder if you can still get them....


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Docsnow
#11 Posted : Friday, November 26, 2010 2:29:15 AM(UTC)
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Doug,

Pretty much so but a lot wider & cheaper 18"/24" Think If you Google clam rake they range in price from mid
$20s to $ 200 ouch!!!! U might beable to find one at a garage sale in the sun shine State a lot cheaper Dancing

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