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delliottg
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Initially Posted - 08/10/2014 :  21:04:49  Show Profile  Visit delliottg's Homepage
Today Rita & I went down to take SL out for a sail. During the sail she wanted some water to wash her hands, but we hadn't filled the fresh water tank yet. We had a cooler full of ice water, so that worked for the need.

When we got back to our slip, we opened up the fill port & proceeded to fill the tank. One of our dockmates stopped by to chat so we weren't paying a lot of attention, until our bilge pump started shooting water out the side of the boat. WTF? The overflow had never even started to gurgle. We shut off the hose immediately, and checked the bilge. Yep, about 5" of water in (our usually dry) bilge. I pumped it down with the manual pump, as it's sump is a couple of inches deeper in the bilge than the automatic pump. Then Rita used our dinghy pump to get rid of most of the rest, and sponged it dry.

Once the drama was over, we tried the galley pump, but no water? Plenty of water coming out of the head's pump. So I looked under the galley sink and noticed that the hose wasn't connected (I'd recently rebuilt the sink pump), so I connected it up without giving it a thought.

Then it dawned on me what had just happened...We'd been filling the bilge through the galley sink's supply hose because it was lower than the overflow valve in the bow.

We both had a good laugh now that we'd solved the mystery of the leak (we thought we were going to have to unearth the water tank's fittings).

So what have you forgotten?
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islander
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Response Posted - 08/11/2014 :  05:10:55  Show Profile
To put a clip on a towel yesterday that was draped over the railing. Wind died yesterday afternoon so we went for a swim, Got out and dried off, Put the towel over the railing without a clip and sure enough no towel 5 min later.
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Stinkpotter
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Djibouti
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Response Posted - 08/11/2014 :  05:54:44  Show Profile
Every once in a while I head down the river with my gull-sweeper still mounted on the hardtop. I get so used to slit-slat noise it makes, I don't think to pull it off until I've gone past the tourists in town. From a distance, it might look like a couple of flashing red lights... (Too bad--the cops and Coasties use blue.)
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Voyager
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Response Posted - 08/11/2014 :  12:29:59  Show Profile
Guy across from me on the dock returned at dusk the other day. At 10PM as I left, his running lights and the bow light were still blazing on.
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sdpinaz
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Response Posted - 08/11/2014 :  14:56:04  Show Profile
....I forgot the rudder once. didn't notice it until after the outboard was started and I was just about to untie the lines.....
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Derek Crawford
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Response Posted - 08/11/2014 :  15:56:05  Show Profile
I forgot to unhook the pigtail before one race...couldn't understand why the mainsail wouldn't go out...
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Stinkpotter
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Djibouti
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Response Posted - 08/11/2014 :  20:29:34  Show Profile
quote:
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I forgot to unhook the pigtail before one race...couldn't understand why the mainsail wouldn't go out...
OH YA... That one!
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sweetcraft
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Response Posted - 08/11/2014 :  21:20:15  Show Profile
Forgot the dock line until the sudden stop backing out.
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pastmember
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Response Posted - 08/12/2014 :  07:41:23  Show Profile
I spent a season with my Windex pointed backwards.
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zeil
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Response Posted - 08/12/2014 :  08:54:20  Show Profile

Backed out of the slip with plugged shore power
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Ape-X
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Response Posted - 08/12/2014 :  09:05:27  Show Profile
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I spent a season with my Windex pointed backwards.


You must have had some very limited tack angles then....?
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britinusa
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Response Posted - 08/12/2014 :  15:57:59  Show Profile  Visit britinusa's Homepage
We were dinking into Elliott Key Harbor and the engine was running rough. I put it down to soggy fuel, ended up rowing the last half mile.

Back home after the long weekend, I put the dink engine in it's stand and bucket of water, tried to start it up and then realized it was dry! Forgot to put fuel in it! Duh.

Peggy read this before I posted it and said I should mention the time we forgot the inside of the coffee peculator! We put the coffee grinds in one of her socks and seeped it in the boiling water!

Tasted pretty good!

Paul
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shnool
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Response Posted - 08/12/2014 :  17:32:40  Show Profile  Visit shnool's Homepage
quote:
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I spent a season with my Windex pointed backwards.

I spent last season with my windex off exactly 10 degrees... but BOY was my point on a port tack good.
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jerlim
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Response Posted - 08/13/2014 :  08:53:20  Show Profile
Came in during high tide and forgot to raise the keel after docking...then the next trip, assuming the keel was up (as it always is...), went out during low tide...when we got hung up in some soft sand, I thought there was an o/b prop issue...
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