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Working in the cockpit, enjoying ths sunshine. Lifted a cockpit cushion and my perspex washboard flipped overboard. It is a minimum of 6 ft down,directly under the transom. Fortunately, I still have the old wooden washboard that came with boat but I would like to retrieve the perspex one. Any ideas please. Boat is in Gosport Marina. Thanks Alan
 
Laundryman said:
Working in the cockpit, enjoying ths sunshine. Lifted a cockpit cushion and my perspex washboard flipped overboard. It is a minimum of 6 ft down,directly under the transom. Fortunately, I still have the old wooden washboard that came with boat but I would like to retrieve the perspex one. Any ideas please. Boat is in Gosport Marina. Thanks Alan
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You need a diver....
 
one of those suction things used for clearing sinks.


Place it on the end of along stick, and suctionalise the perspex board.
 
Another forumite dropped his wind vain overboard whilst trying to fit it. I lent him a long ladder that I had at the marina and he tied it to his pushpit and went down into the water and retrieved it. You will need a wet suit or pref a dry suit this time of year.
 
Laundryman said:
Working in the cockpit, enjoying ths sunshine. Lifted a cockpit cushion and my perspex washboard flipped overboard. It is a minimum of 6 ft down,directly under the transom. ................
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You hope! It will probably have hydrodynamically "flown" quite a long way, don't expect it to be under the transom unless you are very lucky.

Best idea I can think of is something like a 2 inch pump and use the inlet hose as a vacuum cleaner.
 
It's well within skinny dipping depth - are you brave enough? No worse than breaking the ice to swim in the Serpentine on New Year's Day.

Make sure you have a way to get back aboard easily & warm towels, drink & clothing handy. It'll only take a few seconds & the office probably won't notice. If you wear a wet suit, take a big weight (small anchor would do) with a rope on it tied to the boat, when you've got the hatch, drop the weight to float to the surface & recover it later when warm & dry again.

If visibility is poor, drop a big spanner on it with a light line attached that you can follow down.

You might get it with a trawl but there are so many things that can go wrong that it might take a week of constant trying to get it that way - even if you had a suitable trawl net.

You don't mention the state of tide when it's at 6', but if you just wait for springs you may get it shallow enough to stand there & pick it up. Where I berth, I just wait for LW. It's another of the great benefits of twin keels.
 
Get yourself a 10 ft length of PVC pipe and fit a sink plunger to it and tape it up well,then a bit of dinghy work. Odds on it will be about 10 ft away from where you let it go,in any direction! Good luck!

ianat182
 
If the bottom at Gosport is as muddy and murky as it is here in Brighton you could have a bit of a job on your hands. Or you might be lucky. See if you can locate it with a long pole, if so have someone hold it in place, get a wetsuit on and follow the pole down to it. Failing that get a diver...
 
You don't have much of a chance. We dropped a pair of sunglasses overboard whilst at anchor in Studland. The water was clear and I was in the water in less than a minute but they were covered with sand and nowhere to be found.

Contact Peter Jack (Works in Haslar) he made one for us and is very reasonable.
 
I don't know Gosport Marina. Will it get swept away soon? I always keep a web suite on boad after a warp was wrapped round my propellor.
 
Managed to drop a brand new winch into Emsworth marina in the process of fitting it. (fortunately a very small one). Spent ages paddling around in the mud at low water. Never found it.... though did recover some flagons of home-made beer I'd dropped a few years before. (they were still in perfect condition).
 
savageseadog said:
You hope! It will probably have hydrodynamically "flown" quite a long way, don't expect it to be under the transom unless you are very lucky.

Best idea I can think of is something like a 2 inch pump and use the inlet hose as a vacuum cleaner.
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My cockpit locker went overboard at my mooring in the harbour - it disappeared without trace!
 
Searush said:
You don't mention the state of tide when it's at 6', but if you just wait for springs you may get it shallow enough to stand there & pick it up. Where I berth, I just wait for LW. It's another of the great benefits of twin keels.
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Great observation from my crew this w/e (used to 1.9m fin), "Your keels draw 1m, so basically, if we go aground, we can walk ashore..."

V. Nice sail Chi Marina->Emsworth & back - used parasail to err, overtake a Fisher, seemingly under sail ;->
 
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