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Now where did that boat pole go?

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delliottg
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Initially Posted - 11/16/2008 : 20:38:18

While scrubbing our dinghy & other things, at one point I put one of our boat hooks with a scrub brush attached down onto our neighbor's dockbox and made sure it wouldn't roll...I thought. When it came time to leave, we couldn't find the boat hook to save our lives, until I saw this:

Here's it a bit closer:

If the hook had been facing the other way when it hit the dock, we'd probably be looking for another boat hook, the current was moving right along and by the time I noticed, the whole thing would have been on it's way out to Elliott Bay.

David
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Sirius Lepak
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Dave Bristle
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Response Posted - 11/17/2008 : 10:00:49

Oh no! Now you've done it--you've frustrated Poseidon! He almost had it...

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John Russell
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Response Posted - 11/17/2008 : 12:53:09

Sometimes ya just get lucky.

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Response Posted - 11/17/2008 : 13:52:01

Poseidon put it there when he was done with it.

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Nautiduck
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Response Posted - 11/17/2008 : 14:38:39

Why is the water brown? Are you in Lake Cheney?

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John Russell
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Response Posted - 11/17/2008 : 15:31:53

Naw, didn't he say something about scrubbing the dink?.

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delliottg
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Response Posted - 11/17/2008 : 15:38:57

Hah, Randy, you live in the PNW, certainly you got some of the weather we just did. The Pineapple Express dropped inches of rain in a very short time over our area. The brown is run off into the river, our town was briefly made into an island on Thursday (different river than this one), and the south bridge approaches were only <i>just </i>above water by Sunday when we went out.

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GaryB
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Response Posted - 11/17/2008 : 21:00:21

You obviously have better luck than myself. The last two times I've been to the boat I knocked the gasket off the cowling of my Suzuki that seals the area where the pull rope comes out and yesterday I dropped my glasses in the water before I ever got on the boat.

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OLarryR
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Response Posted - 11/17/2008 : 22:24:06

THe boat pole floating as it did in the vertical and captured by the finger slip was a happy conclusion to the mystery of finding the boat pole.

I have so far lost two items overboard and have a lesson learned for each. First, I had a baseball cap that flew off my head and by the time I got to where it was last seen on the water's surface, it had already sunk. The fix, thanks to many on this Forum, I now use a Tilley Hat. Second, I dropped my keys over the side in the slip and the water was so dark, it is vitually impossible to recover a lost item. THe Honda Prelude key (w/micro-chip) cost $22 at the dealership and that included the programming. Now I have a Davis Key Buoy attached to the key.

Maybe I should next do a water test on my boat pole and see if it floats same as yours ? (After I tie a rope to it just in case it does not float.)

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glivs
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Response Posted - 11/18/2008 : 07:07:18

Clearly a case of positive karma being returned!

Near the end of the season, I was disconnecting our 5W solar panel from the railing when something distracted me. Turned my head for a second when "splash". I stood motionless as the panel begin to disappear but finally threw off my glasses and dove over the lifeline. Caught the panel about 6' down. Great...but now how to get back on the boat? Thanks to this forum a quick tug on the safety release to drop the ladder and all is well.

Almost....the couple on the adjacent mooring appear determined to not let me forget this little incident.

Edited by - glivs on 11/18/2008 07:20:54

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Response Posted - 11/18/2008 : 08:17:09

Gerry, just tell them you were a pearl diver in a former life and instinct took over.

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