What's The Most Interesting Thing You've Found At Sea?

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What\'s The Most Interesting Thing You\'ve Found At Sea?

Whilst not finding a jet propelled pilotless aircraft as seen in this months YM, I've changed course whilst sailing to recover all sorts of things that looked intriguing from a distance and could have disappointly ended up with a very large collection of dolphin shaped foil balloons. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

More worringly, I sometimes wonder how many WW2 mines are still lurking in the North Sea and Channel /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif
 
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Not sure about interesting but the one that shocked us the most was what looked like a body, face-down, in an off-shore suit complete with hood. Luckily when we came alongside it turned out to just be a suit. The most shocking thing was how difficult it was to see it, despite it being fluorescent orange, 6 feet long, on a clear calm day. Made us really think about visibility of a MOB in adverse conditions!

We've seen bottlenose dolphins off the French coast who came and played round the boat for a while - fantastic experience to have in your own boat. And we had several pilot whales play around our yacht on charter in Tenerife.
 
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A complete set of drain-rods with a plunger on the end got tangled round my rudder opff Yarmouth some years ago. Couldn't see the plumber anywhere though.
 
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Not sure about interesting but the one that shocked us the most was what looked like a body, face-down,

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I found a body, face down.....
 
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The poor so and so in Boston ?

He was only a kid and you spotted him and at least brought

closure

Respect to you Ken

Joe
 
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I have found that being at sea allows you to view the other things in your life with a proper sense of perspective............
 
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Not interesting but odd:

A frying pan floating off Lymington. Just think what the AVS would be. The second we got near it sank in a ripple!

A bunch of spring onions off Poole. I convinced the crew it meant a spring tide....
 
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Bunch of sticks tied up with string, turned out after much investigation to be horserubbish.

What looked like a broom handle, was a beach caster with reel, and a tripod hanging off the line.

Lengths of Maranti which I turned into georgian windows.

A moped.

A periscope, which we chased with the idea of putting a bucket over it.

Twice, a golf ball in a lobster pot. (Not far from shore)

A tin which I was confident would be worth opening so I stamped on it with my boot heel. It contained the most rotten evil smelling fish, but the strange thing was, when it burst none of it missed me.
 
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Land !!!!!!

When I was lost in fog /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif
 
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Respect to you there Ken , pulling a body out of the water is something you don't forget .
 
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Two naked girls in a rib without charts having no idea where they were...


....oh well, in fact it was two fully clothed chaps, sorry to say...but lost they were.
 
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SWMBO saw a TV set floating past our mooring. She asked me to turn it over, but I couldnt find the remote.

There was also this, but the chickens had all got out through the hole.....
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A shoe. Fortunately, without a foot in it.
 
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A dismasted abandoned Sadler 32 between Madeira and Tenerife. Phoned MRC Falmouth and they said it had been abandoned six weeks previously. Still afloat with the hatch open and no washboards.

(Unfortunately salvage was ruled out due to sea conditions - which were higher than they look in the picture - and distance (180nm) to Santa Cruz)

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More HERE

- Nick
 
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I found a rigid inflatable boat! Three actually, in quite good nick too, each with a decent outboard and all just bobbing around pretty obviously abandoned and nobody on board at all. The one we towed back to the marina also had a little blue and white flag draped over on one of the sponsons, another bonus. I went back in the afternoon to see if the others could also be salvaged but they had disappeared, probably drifted off or prhaps sunk. Heyho.
 
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A couple of years ago the TSYT brig Stavros (or maybe it was Prince William) was on passage heading south about 15 miles west of St Vincent when their eagle eyed look-outs spotted a RHIB with outboard drifting, no one on board...... so they managed to salvage it and took it on board using their rescue boat davit.

They informed the relevant authorities (which is the proper thing to do) and then a few days later (after no-one came forward to claim it) wondered what to do with it.

They arrived back here in Barbados at the end of their 10 day voyage, and showed me their new prize.
Me was thinking some yotties in the Grenadines didnt tie their tender up after returning home from the rum shop one evening, so i sent an email to all the charter yacht companies down that way - got an email back next day from one of them saying one of their boats had reported a tender 'stolen' a few nights before....... yes, story has a happy ending, it was theirs, and the brig returned it to them a few days later on her next voyage west, charterers tres pleased, as a new tender would have made quite a dent in their deposit!
 
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We too have 'found' a dinghy. After much effort we retrieved it and took it into the nearest harbour where we discovered it was the tender of a local pub land-lord. We didn't even get a 'thank you' from the surly rude man, which makes me wonder if he'd set it adrift on purpose.

On a brighter note, I retrieved a base-ball style hat off the Mewstone, Plymouth a couple of years ago. I still wear it sometimes and gain a perverse pleasure in getting some use out of my 'find'.
 
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