What's the strangest thing you've found in your lockers?

[Boreades]

As part of running new cables round the boat, I had to completely empty the locker under the chart table to get access to a cable pipe through a hole in the locker. Imagine my frustration when I couldn't get a mouse wire to go down the pipe. Imagine my surprise when I hung upside down in the locker with a torch and found a tiny jar of Marmite lodged in the neck of the pipe!

Still with its original plastic seal round the neck of the jar, unopened, and dated "best before 1999".

Mrs Boreades and I have been scratching our heads, wondering how any foodstuffs got into a locker we never use for food. From the date on the jar, we can vaguely lending our boat to some other people in 1998, they must have stuffed stuff anywhere and everywhere.

What have you found?

 

[Cymrogwyllt]

Criminal waste of Marmite

 

[Dux Duckett]

A margarine tub containing used condoms. And it was a charter boat, before you ask . . .

 

[mjcoon]

A margarine tub containing used condoms. And it was a charter boat, before you ask . . .

Errm, "Last Tango", anyone?

Mike.

 

[Rigger Mortice]

A cat.

I must have closed the hatch on it when I had been working on the boat earlier in the day. I don't know who was more surprised at the time but it certainly made me jump.

 

[VicMallows]

Duck eggs in my cockpit cave locker. Unfortunately I had no idea how long ago the duck might have left them.

 

[SamanthaTabs]

The Boss, he was sorting lockers so I left him to it and went off kayaking with the pup. Returned not much later to hear a pathetic tapping and groans, opened the locker slowly so I could take snap shots of him climbing out

 

[macd]

The thing that gives me the biggest surprise when looking in a locker is actually finding whatever I hoped was in there...

 

[Tomahawk]

Criminal waste of Marmite

Best before dates on Marmite are purely avdisory...

I would happlly eat it...
than I am a fruitcake...

 

[Woodlouse]

I found a bean stringer in the galley drawer. It's still there and I still don't know how it works.

 

[Jamesuk]

a cat

 

[Croak]

a cat

That's not strange, it has happened before!

 

[Deleted member 36384]

The Boss, he was sorting lockers so I left him to it and went off kayaking with the pup. Returned not much later to hear a pathetic tapping and groans, opened the locker slowly so I could take snap shots of him climbing out

Consider this. If it was a dog you left in the locker instead of the boss, who would be the most happy to see you?

 

[SamanthaTabs]

That's a silly question, the dogs a Jack Russell and everyone knows they are very intelligent. As if he'd get stuck in a locker...

 

[mjcoon]

I found a bean stringer in the galley drawer. It's still there and I still don't know how it works.

Does it enable you to make a necklace out of beans (broad, baked or runner)?

Mike.

 

[Woodlouse]

Does it enable you to make a necklace out of beans (broad, baked or runner)?

Mike.

I honestly have no idea.

 

[johnalison]

It wasn't our boat but our German neighbours who had been at the "nature-harbour" at Dasser Ort and found a juvenile fox in their food locker. They panicked, and so did the fox, which left the evidence behind.

 

[Ripster]

Apart from a rusty spanner in the bilges, the only worthwhile discovery I have made was not in a locker it way underneath the engine. A pristine pair of mens Bolle sunglasses. No idea how they got there, but they fit a treat

 

[pandos]

Found a really nice cap once under the engine, discovered it was belong to someone who had surveyed the wrong boat.....

Tracked him down and gave it back, later I was sorry to have done so, as he turned out to be a right B****x a sometime later.

 

[V1701]

I discovered a rounders bat on board, maybe useful to fend off intruders in the night?