Ever Recovered anything lost overboard ?

[LONG_KEELER]

Best thing for me was a valued wristwatch lost whilst tying up to scrubbing posts. It just appeared after the water ran away.

I recovered a phone onetime but it failed to work.

 

[Wansworth]

Lost glasses overboard sent down a line with a weight so diver could find them…….nearly broke the lens?

 

[jac]

Recovered a crew member from a neighbouring boat

 

[Momac]

Recovered a few buckets .
Except they weren't lost overboard, more like lost over the quayside .

 

[Stemar]

Milady's watch fell overboard - broken strap buckle when we were on the Hardway pontoon. A week or so later, on the pontoon again. the tide went out and there was the watch, still going. She kept it for good few years after that.

 

[johnalison]

I recovered my sun hat while tacking out of the Seine. All achieved under sail, probably helped by my enthusiastic crew.

 

[Fr J Hackett]

I recovered my wallet complete with cards and a reasonable quantity of cash after taking the dinghy ashore in the Yealm, going for lunch, returning to the boat and finding that I was without my wallet. Thinking I must have left it in the pub I returned to find it floating by the dinghy landing area soggy but intact.

 

[Sjp1960]

I lost a winch handle overboard when visiting the Channel Islands. Many years later I spotted a winch handle floating off Bembridge and recovered it.
Whilst it wasn’t the same one , it felt like the sea had returned it to me.

 

[stuartwineberg]

Recent visitors to yarmouth may have seen one of my friends taking a fully clothed dip off the back of his boat to recover his wallet before it sank

 

[mm42]

My company baseball cap, every 8 or 9 days at sea on average, we recover it, then put it in the drills matrix as a MOB recovery drill. Its now lost its company colour due to so many saltwater immersions.

 

[Capt Popeye]

Might mention , should not Wallets and Card Holders be kept in a Waterproof Wallet /Holder so that they
A can float
B be kept dry
C be found easier

Just asking ? (for a friend ?)

Recent visitors to yarmouth may have seen one of my friends taking a fully clothed dip off the back of his boat to recover his wallet before it sank

 

[FairweatherDave]

My outboard went over board.....my avon dinghy bracket had rusted through, unbeknownst to me. Dinghy tied on to the isolated Emsworth pontoon while big boat also tied up there. After a couple of hours on big boat went back to find outboard had disappeared. It was hanging by a thread, a piece of 5mm rope tied to the seat webbing, and getting a good saltwater flush 2 feet under the surface. Didn't always use the lanyard

 

[AngusMcDoon]

I lost a fender overboard at anchor at Lundy. It was soon whooshed away by the tide, quicker than I could do anything about it. A few hours later, the fender having been on a trip up and down the Bristol Channel, it was whooshed back, and I retrieved it.

 

[Kukri]

Nice bronze boathook with ash shaft. Twice.

Third time unlucky.

 

[Wansworth]

Dropped a floating boat hook over the side.neighbour ing yacht called attention to passing motorboat who went off in pursuit(Spring ebb,Itchenor),they picked it up and returned it………even motorboats are nice?

 

[Concerto]

Yes, and it was only yesterday. I knocked my bag of clothes pegs over and one of the super grip ones fell in the water beside the pontoon. Laying on the pontoon I grabbed it just before it sank as some air was trapped under one side.

 

[westhinder]

My Tilley Hat, a couple of times, finally it decided to jump ship at a time I was wrestling with the mainsail that was stuck, so by the time I had solved that problem the hat was nowhere to be seen.
Much more importantly, a cuddly toy that belonged to a young guest. His distress added a good deal of urgency to our MOB manouvre.

 

[John the kiwi]

Coming out one morning from the overnight bay. Solo. The bay itself was absolutely sheltered but I could see the gentle breeze outside, so up with the sails while motoring slowly. And managed to flick the floating winch handle ob. My boat has open transom so easiest retrieval is to kneel at rear of cockpit and reverse up to the floating handle which is what i did successfully and uneventfully - except that when I did stand up again there was a 20 seat tourist boat 5 metres away with a concerned skipper wondering why the apparently unmanned yacht was going backwards with all sails set!
(Nice of him to check up on me though.)

 

[Poignard]

My wife.

Who now insists we wear life jackets.

 

[DJE]

A new and expensive pair of glasses while moored in the canal at Vannes. Only about 2.5m of water. Fishing net taped to boat hook failed so I stripped to underpants and dived in. (I was younger and poorer in those days.) Took about three dives to find the business end of the fishing net and about five more to find the glasses.