Strange Things You Find On Boats

[Sgeir]

Rummaging around in one of the cockpit dookits where we keep sunglasses, wrong-sized anodes, padlocks and bits of string, I was surprised to find a dead thrush.

We'd been out the better part of a week and not noticed it before.....

 

[Clancy Moped]

An A to Z of Swindon, I've never been to said place, and don't know why it was on the boat.

 

[newtothis]

An A to Z of Swindon, I've never been to said place, and don't know why it was on the boat.

You never know when you're going to run out of loo roll. It's also a good reason to take a copy of the Daily Mail on board.

 

[Clancy Moped]

A radiator bleed key?

 

[LONG_KEELER]

Camera. Located in the bottom of a hanging halyard bag.

 

[zoidberg]

An umbrella?
A bicycle?
A serving naval officer....?

 

[Ink]

There are a couple of things we found on the boat that we have no idea what they are for. Does that count as strange?

Ink

 

[prv]

An empty wine bottle, wrapped all over in yellowing sellotape and strapped to the compression post with two large jubilee clips.

Pete

 

[savageseadog]

An A to Z of Swindon, I've never been to said place, and don't know why it was on the boat.

Serious grounding?

 

[RogerJolly]

An absolutely humungous life vest. Accounted for the stress cracks all over the boat.

 

[DJE]

An empty wine bottle, wrapped all over in yellowing sellotape and strapped to the compression post with two large jubilee clips.

French boat was it?

 

[JumbleDuck]

The weirdest was on a summer sailing trip when I was running out of money in my current account, pay day was a week away and I really wished I had brought my credit card instead of leaving it at home. Until I went down the companionway and saw, lying in solitary splendour in the middle of the quarter berth end cushion ... my credit card.

To this day I have no idea how it got there. My best guess is that I had used it as a bookmark in a book I had stowed on the shelf above, but why I would have done that or why it would have fallen out I have no idea. God's against usury (Lev 25:37) so it can't have been divine intervention.

 

[SaltIre]

I woke up one morning and thought Ben Nevis was on my boat. I then realised I was mistaken - anybody seeing a mountain on a boat would surely be deluded.

 

[mjcoon]

I woke up one morning and thought Ben Nevis was on my boat. I then realised I was mistaken - anybody seeing a mountain on a boat would surely be deluded.

Is that a lead in to a "Mr & Mrs Nevis & their son Ben..." joke?

 

[Seastoke]

Rummaging around in one of the cockpit dookits where we keep sunglasses, wrong-sized anodes, padlocks and bits of string, I was surprised to find a dead thrush.

We'd been out the better part of a week and not noticed it before.....

You should go the doctors with thrush.

 

[Stemar]

God's against usury (Lev 25:37) so it can't have been divine intervention.

Usury's charging interest on loans, not merely borrowing or lending. Plenty of CC companies would like to be usurers, but pay it off at the end of the month and they don't get a chance. As ever, the ones who can least afford it, pay the most.

Which reminds me. A man was at the bank, applying for a loan and the loan shark customer care executive was explaining the interest rate. "Why's it called interest?" "Because it's the only reason we're interested in lending you money"

 

[JumbleDuck]

I woke up one morning and thought Ben Nevis was on my boat.

 

[jdc]

God's against usury (Lev 25:37) so it can't have been divine intervention.

Must have been Old Nick then...

 

[Tomahawk]

Two 1000 Peseta notes. Hidden under a shelf lining.
(Boat was originally commissioned by a Spanish gentleman).

 

[JumbleDuck]

Must have been Old Nick then...

Tempting me? You could be right.