What was the strangest thing you found on your boat after buying ?

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From the pencil marks on the board the PO went through great trouble to get the radius of the curves and their alignment quite precise. Anybody know what this is?

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Priscilla

[/ QUOTE ]I am not completely sure, but I think I have seen something like this before.

I am going to stick my neck out and say..

It's wood.
 
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From the pencil marks on the board the PO went through great trouble to get the radius of the curves and their alignment quite precise. Anybody know what this is?

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Priscilla

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That looks similar to the part cockpit sole I had where gear lever came up. The gearbox was proud of the sole and needed a larger gap at front of board.

But yours looks much too good for that !
 
A hamlet cigar, a gift from the previous owner to smoke if the boat sank (remember the adverts)

A tennis racket with the strings removed and cut to form a U two pipe clips to hold rope attached to the "prongs" thus formed; the whole lot bolted to a 8ft pole. Described as a mooring device for putting lines over poles.

Several wire strops for adjusting the height of the jib foot above the deck - depending on visibility????

A bucket with no bottom used for searching for items dropped overboard. . .
 
A round brass porthole mirror in one locker. The brass had been covered in "something", varnish perhaps, but it was scratched in places, so was tarnished underneath. The mirror silvering was also coming adrift in places, so it went straight into the skip.

There is also a blue plastic "thing" which I haven't yet found a use for. I must take a picture of it the next time I'm up at the boat and ask the "experts" on here for their opinion. I've a feeling I might get some funny replies!
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It's amazing what get's left in lockers. Thed previous people obviously had use for it but in my casew never let on what !!

Just think you have probably done it to another !! Think about your own 'inventions' left behind !!
 
88 brand new charts in a trotter box locker. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
Four new pairs of Musto HPX. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
Half used tube of Anusol. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif
One johnnie (unused). /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif
 
On one boat a set of Baltic charts from The Skaggerak to the Kalinigrad border, and finger paintings by the owner's grand children.
 
On a Jeanneau 37: enough sawdust to completely block two bilge pumps on our first rough trip, so that we ended up bucketing 40 gallons of water out of the cabin into the cockpit.
 
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On a Jeanneau 37: enough sawdust to completely block two bilge pumps on our first rough trip, so that we ended up bucketing 40 gallons of water out of the cabin into the cockpit.

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Sorry to ask - but where did the water come from let alone the sawdust ?
 
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On a Jeanneau 37: enough sawdust to completely block two bilge pumps on our first rough trip, so that we ended up bucketing 40 gallons of water out of the cabin into the cockpit.

[/ QUOTE ]And you found the sawdust of concern?

Did taking 40 gallons seem normal?

Should I be throwing the odd bucket of oggin into the bilges in order to keep up this norm?
 
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