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cdogg

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Don't park the companionway steps in place without fixing them there.
The ride to the cabin floor with one foot on the top step ends in you lying on your back on the other side of the steps. I can remember it like it was in slow-motion, here we go....

Been there, done that! After repeatedly warning others that the 'steps' were not in place I forgot and took a header onto the cabin floor - ******
 

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Before carrying out work in the bilges, simply invert your vessel first. Then, hey presto, any object that previously could have fallen in the bilge will be unable to do so.
 

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Don't cast a fishing line with a heavy weight if you haven't first removed the handle from the winch.
 

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If you are helping someone leave Crinan sea lock, don't just drop the warps on top of the crew - there's a good chance you'll knock their only pair of spectacles overboard.
 

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A good way of preventing stuff falling out of pockets on board is to put it securely into a shoulder back.

Oh and once you have put the mobile phones and both digital cameras into the bag do not drop it over the side.
 

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Stuck in cockpit locker

When you need to fetch something on the bottom of the cockpit locker take off your Secumar first. That will prevent the Secumar blowing up during the process leaving you with all of your torso stuck in the locker, while your bum is in free air.:D
 

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And....empty your pockets before you climb the mast.

aaaahhhh... should have told me... seeing all the cards and other contents spread out over the deck when the wallet falls out of the back pocket 18m above sea level...
 

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OK so this is a confessional....

Anchor in Keyhaven , singlehanded, sleep well, and wake up ready for a sail home to Poole.

Weigh anchor, pile it up (all muddy) on the foredeck, & dive back to cockpit to take the helm.

With muddy hands , engage fwd and steer with knees to open space in the solent.

Knock into neutral & try to set sail, expecting to clean up a& stow anchor on sail back to Poole, but find anchor is piled on genoa sheets, so unfsten it all to free sheets & set sail.

set a/helm & nip below to clean muddy hands.

so far all is well.

On return to cockpit, find boat doing a good 5 kts, then hear a rattle....


Anchor &chain hasfallen off bow roller and is descending to the oggin faster than can be stopped. Very soon we will stop..

Drop sails and survey position..


Now solidly at anchor in Hurst race in strong current, rode twitching under the load. No prospect of recovering anchor. Tried winches to no avail.. all in full view of the rally I had just left....but nobody had a solution.

Assistance was offered by several passing yachts, but what do you do?

3 Passing jetskis step on board and haul anchor as far as poss, but it still will not free, I conclude I am fouled on a mainland to IOW cable and reluctantly boltcrop the anchor warp.

For this I won the club rolling pin award, after many quips about powercuts on IOW


HandyTip/Moral of the story: Tie your Anchor(oo) down, sport!
 

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When the after-dinner debrief* starts to go the way some forum threads go+, put the whishky bottle away.

* discussion about how we managed to pass the wrong side of a cardinal mark on a falling tide

+ in which issues are abandoned in favour of name-calling
 

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When you're really short sighted

Don;t put your only pair of glasses in the locker where you dump winch handles when you're not sailing.

Fortunately it was very sunny so i didn't look like a complete idiot going everywhere in prescription sunglasses
 
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