Strangest things...

Neraida

Neraida

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Are you the kind of yachtie that goes about cos you see something in the oggin?

So, come on, own up, what have you found?

Found an unopened can of Heineken in an anchorage in Sark once, truely "refreshes the ports other beers cannot reach."

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All the time, boat's now kitted out with assorted fenders, boathooks, paddles, floating rope, footballs, cushions, saw a freezer but too large for my boat. When diving found numerous anchors, an A flag (very appropriate and still in use 10 yrs later), a bottle of vodka, unfortunately still smelt like vodka but tasted of salt water!, various fishing rods and weights, fins, masks, snorkels, a compass.

The sea is a real marine emporium!

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Umm, cans of beer, bottles of wine, black dustbin liner with cigarette tobacco inside, wellies, marigolds (gloves not flowers) and about 10,000 supermarket carrier bags who's only purpose in life is to foul the prop.

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Once the avalanche has started, it's too late for the pebbles to vote
 
All but two of my fenders are fished out of the panny! Bits of good looking wood, drying on coachroof. Used to pick up any wood, had a solid fuel stove. Li-lo bed thingies, had six of the things onboard last summer, gave them all away!

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I once picked up a divers harpoon mid way between Calpe and Ibiza all that was visable was the pistol grip but it was complete with harpoon, kept it on board for several years but eventually gave it away in Fleetwood Marina, I still have an outboard fuel tank found mid way between Fleetwood and IOM, I once picked up about 50 m of metal hauser whilst trying to anchor outside Whitehaven Marina waiting for the tide to enter, needless to say I left it ther for a more deserving chap to have it.
Mike

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Some years ago I lost a favorite watch over the side and in my desperation to get it back went n bought a Seasearcher magnet thingy - of course could not pull up the watch (cud see it shining in 20ft water for a few days) but many other things including chains, motorbikes, outboards and on one occasion a crate of beer (metal caps)! Nowadays can't be bothered "fishing" but do pick up lots of driftwood cos I have a Bengco heater which burns everything!
Pelican

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Off Whitehaven, a tailor's dummy, which everyone thought was a dead body. We didn't pick it up, but left it floating around to scare the next boat coming.

Quite a few useful items over the years have come from that other source of free chandlery, the marina skip. My on-board kettle is my favourite such item, spared from the crusher on my first weekend with my first boat, and still going strong.

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Marina/yard skips are a great source of bits, especially in the US, they definitely throw a lot of good gear away over there!

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Is it worth a bin-raiding trip for us poor Brits? What are the VAT regulations for bringing rubbish into the EU? Perhaps the US will pay us for taking their trash away like they do with their ships. What are you doing next summer? I reckon we could get a whole load of stuff in that ketch of yours if we stuffed it full of junk like that old Polish man did with his house in London that was on the telly a while back.

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My old "ketch" is already full of junk!! I`m trying desperately to get rid of most of it, but my brother is doing the same, so his old junk becomes my old junk! I got 14 staimless bottle screws from a tip in san diego, the rig hd been replaced under insurance, charter boat, so they threw everything out!! I just had to buy the fork fittings for one end, cheap! I`ve still got three of them as spares, sold the rest, kept me for three months!

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Beachcombing

From the beach I have 200m of floating warp that now graces Little Orca, my fishing boat, a fender that would do justice to the QEII and a Henri Lloyd baseball cap that I wear to this day.

From the sea, I have investigated but not picked up a pub garden bench and table set (in The Needles channel), a plastic garden seat (400 miles off the Brazilain coast) and a flourescent tube (100 miles across the Bay of Biscay, spotted at two miles off and bet upon, I won).

Best so far was a balloon floating in Lyme Bay that had been released in Manchester. We sent it back to the school and received a package two weeks later containing drawings by all of class 2c of what our boat and Lyme Bay look like, very sweet.

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Re: Not me but

A fisherman I know, from Brightlingsea I believe, was in tha habit of going out against the flood with his net out behind.

One day he was passed by a returning fishing boat and about a mile behind a Fisheries Protection Vessel.

When he hauled his nets he'd got a good catch. Half of it boxed and iced down.

He wonders if the incomer might have been slightly over quota.

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Found a dead, bloated cow off Freshwater IOW. Too heavy to get on board though. Worse - the tow-line broke!.

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Can I ask why you wanted to recover it? Marine safety? Ready made salt beef?

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Maybe he fancied her!

<hr width=100% size=1>O wad some Power the giftie gie us
To see oursels as ithers see us!
 
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