What is the most expensive thing you have dropped overboard?

iPHONE

Iphone safely buttoned in pocket - which didn't help much as I stubbed my toe on a cleat and dived head first into the empty berth next to mine.
 
Stainless steel Magna rail mount BBQ, apparently the entire marina heard me swear when I dropped it. I can confirm they are good grade stainless, a magnet did sod all. Fortunatley it landed right way up with the lid off (or so I discovered) when i managed to recover it with an improvised grapling hook (metal coathangers have so many uses on a boat).

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polyanna said:
Iphone safely buttoned in pocket - which didn't help much as I stubbed my toe on a cleat and dived head first into the empty berth next to mine.
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That is one of the reasons why I never keep a phone on my person when on the boat :o

My mistake was to check to see if SWMBO had called whilst I had been cleaning the boat and through instinct put it in my trouser pocket; as the weather was so good on Saturday I hadn't taken a coat and I was leaving the boat after all. It is quite a large step up to exit the boat from the swim platform to the marina wall and the phone (in its case) came out of my pocket on an amazing trajectory straight into the drink.
 
Not expensive but fiendishly difficult to get a replacement.

The valve from the dighy. Letting the air out of the dinghy on the pontoon, undid the valve but did not hold on tight enough and feeeewww, plop. It shot about 4ft in the air and straight in to the briney.
 
mac 3 razor

My new girlfriend dropped my mac 3 razor in the lake she thought it was funny until i told her it was my late fathers razor she then went quiet and started to cry and was apologising for what she had done i thought this would be a good time to let her know that i was joking. I am still paying for that stunt.
 
Me and my buddy managed to drop a Twin Disk MG506 gearbox into the drink. I nearly cried when I saw it go for a swim. It was surreal, like slow motion. Two weekends work, manhandled it onto the side of the boat (it weighs about 18 stone!) and it fell in!
 
The most dispensible thing was my mother-in-law. I knew for sure when I saw her shoe drifting past.

I discovered the worst thing about my m-i-l ....................






she floats!
 
One weekend at East Cowes, HWMBO managed to go off the back of the boat with a folder Brompton bike in his hand, he did manage to keep a grip though and I did wonder what all these people were doing on the back of my boat whilst I was in the galley!! Bike and hubby safely recovered ...

The following day I am again in the galley and there was another commotion, "what now" this time I thought, - there he was bobbing in the water, this time he had had the outboard in his hand which had been too heavy to hold on to! He had been taking it out of the tender when the wake of a rib coming down the medina had bounced the tender!! We always do it two-handed but he thought he could manage without me!?!

Fortunately the nighbouring boats from the previous day had left so we didn't have the embarassment of people seeing him go into the briney two days in a row! We paid a diver to get the engine, took it to Honda to be serviced and it's as good as new!

Phone and keys are my nightmare scenario of going over the edge, try to keep a safe hold all the time!
 
I dropped my iPhone in the river not long ago. Only problem it was in my pocket at the time :D

Apart from dangling upside down side, my leg around the mooring line and my head in the river it was quite entertaining! Lets just say i've been more careful re-fitting windows on the bow since :)

Oh and the iphone lives on, stripped it down dried it out and works perfectly!
 
As a kid, the little glass water trap off a Volvo Penta 4HP outboard, about three miles downriver from the mooring. Had to row the dory all the way back upstream. :(

"motors cut again, I'll just drain the water out of the glass bowl thingy" Plop!

I also dropped me GPS once, but it floated back to the surface.
 
Most expensive, the OH his wallet and his mobile phone.

Most annoying, a thumb screw from the folding radar arch on a sunday in the middle of nowhere.
 
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