Boat gremlins

[pugwash]

Sailing last weekend in a boat I've owned for three years. Suddenly the galley drawer containing all cutlery and - worse - the bottle-opener and corkscrew, jammed. Couldn't shift it for quids. No way into it round the back. For two days and nights. Ate off my sailing knife with a couple of new pencils for chopsticks. Finally, enraged, I gave it a pull -- and it opened. Just like that. Phew. Silly me, forgot to take the corkscrew out. It jammed again. For a day and a half. When it opened I checked it thoroughly. Nothing wrong. Then found that when the finger latch inside the round hole is pulled back hard, a bit of it comes up like a heel and blocks it. As long as the latch is not pulled all the way back it doesn't jam. Okay. Then went to the port forward locker to get a bottle of red wine. The door jammed. It has never jammed before. Couldn't shift for quids, even with the finger-latch only halfway back. And it's still jammed. Where do these gremlin thingies come from?

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[webcraft]

You've been bad, haven't you?

- Nick

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[Twister_Ken]

Seems you\'ve bought a teetotaller\'s boat! nm

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[oldharry]

Obviously you have a rabbit aboard - or a vicar!

You must have painted the boat green, sailed with a clergyman on a friday, and kept a rabbit aboard....!

Rabbits? Yes - dreadfully bad luck on a boat. (Try buying a Duracell battery on Brittany Ferries - they dont stock them because there is a picture of a rabbit on the pack, and the crew refuses to sail with them. Yes - really!)

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[pugwash]

duracell

That splash-splash you see in my wake next weekend is all my Duracells going overboard

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[Metabarca]

Re: duracell

... or it could be a bunny with Duracells rapidly overtaking you...

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[chas]

Interesting - perhaps your attractions are waning after 3 years and SHE is making a point.

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[Evadne]

Or maybe she's just getting old. That's why she won't just open her drawers when you feel like it.

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