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Frank Hopper
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Initially Posted - 12/29/2007 :  13:46:11  Show Profile  Visit Frank Hopper's Homepage
A friend sent this photo of my boat. I came into the dock with zephers so when a friend asked me to come down to her boat as I was coming in I simply stepped off and left the boat to "stay". After about ten minutes I looked to my slip and it was empty. My boat had backed out into the fairway, made the turn, and begun to sail out. I and a friend ran to the next dock and caught it. It was a funny event.
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delliottg
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Response Posted - 12/29/2007 :  14:24:11  Show Profile  Visit delliottg's Homepage
They make these things called dock lines...
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dmpilc
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Response Posted - 12/29/2007 :  15:47:15  Show Profile
Gremlins, maybe, or Santa's elves having a little post-Christmas let-down fun, hehe.
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djn
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Response Posted - 12/29/2007 :  16:24:56  Show Profile
When I sold my boat, it wondered down to Ohio. Some day I might retreve it. Good story Frank. Cheers.
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Dave Bristle
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Response Posted - 12/29/2007 :  16:41:47  Show Profile
Back to obedience school...
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OLarryR
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Response Posted - 12/29/2007 :  17:52:24  Show Profile  Visit OLarryR's Homepage
Rcmd try one of those electronic collars around the Jib Stay. That should keep the boat from wandering, that is, after you install the electric fence.
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britinusa
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Response Posted - 12/29/2007 :  17:52:32  Show Profile  Visit britinusa's Homepage
I think your boat is dropping a hint 'get out more often'

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John Russell
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Response Posted - 12/30/2007 :  16:52:27  Show Profile
That noise you heard was just your insurance man crying.
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Brooke Willson
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Response Posted - 12/30/2007 :  17:18:09  Show Profile
My first boat was a Mobjack -- a 17' open racing sloop that I sailed here on the Chesapeake. When I bought my C25, I donated the Mobjack to our local church camp (on Occohannock Creek on the Eastern Shore of Virginia), where my son worked in the summer and was, among other things, sailing instructor. One summer day after sailing he beached the boat but didn't tie the painter to the pier. That night there was a terrific Chesapeake Bay thunderstorm with lots of wind and, in the morning, the boat was gone. The camp staff looked for the boat for days, called the Coast Guard and the Virginia Marine Resources Commission, but the boat had disappeared. We all assumed it had sunk in the creek or the Bay.

A year and a half later, the camp got a call from a man who lived on the York River, on the west side of the Bay. The Mobjack was bumping up against his dock. One shroud was broken, but the rest of the boat was intact. That boat had crossed the Bay and ended up about thirty miles south -- but who knows where that boat had been during the year and a half interval?

So, yes, boats do wander.

Brooke
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delliottg
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Response Posted - 12/30/2007 :  19:20:21  Show Profile  Visit delliottg's Homepage
Wow, that's a great story! Makes the writer in me start dreaming up adventures for the boat.
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