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Tomas Kruska
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Response Posted - 09/07/2011 : 01:37:54

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Champipple

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You dropped the fender??? I hope it could be easily recovered

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Stinkpotter
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Response Posted - 09/07/2011 : 05:52:20

Ya, if you can't recover a fender, you've got some work to do before you take anyone out sailing with you!

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PCP777
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Response Posted - 09/07/2011 : 07:19:35

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We actually have fun recovering items and feel like it's good practice. We've recovered a couple fenders, several hats, a ladie's high heel shoe (long story) etc.

We need to instill some MOB drills to take it up a notch.

As an aside, losing the Ray bans was very painful. I was sailing with some of my band mates and the wind was very light. None of them really know anything about sailing, and I had bent over to look over the side and the shades slipped off my face and very slowly sank. I could see them and knew I could jump in and recover them but I reminded myself that I was the only one who could sail of the lot so I stayed put and watched my favorite shades disappear forever.

I have a new pair now but now I usually sail with my Costa Del Mar's which have a fluorescent green neck band with a bobber on it, and yes, they will be retrieved if somehow they come off my neck.

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tbosch
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Response Posted - 09/07/2011 : 15:21:09

My Tilley hat! On Monday while sailing solo and taking sails down at the end of the day. I am so bummed

I didn't let it ruin a great weekend of sailing, though.

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islander
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Response Posted - 09/07/2011 : 16:49:46

My favorite sailing cap that my daughter brought back from Oahu. Blew off my head two weekends ago as I was lowering the main and looked up.

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JeanAndre
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Response Posted - 09/08/2011 : 07:24:33

Not that I like loosing stuff, but many times I love practicing MOB so I will come back for Anything that floats.

I recovered a black ball cap about 10 years ago, I still have the cap and wear it to date. It is now almost faded grey and the Admiral hates the cap but I´ll wear it until it´s gone.

The admiral and I recovered a plastic diner plate, It took us 5 times around but we finally got it.

Most recently I dropped a coleman battery fan while stepping off a boat in Traverse City, the marina "recovery guy" got it for me.

But my most notorious fumble was a brand new Mast step halyard plate.

I took it of my backpack and said to the Wife: Look what I have here, Tcharam... Plunk, Plunk, Tchaplooft.... In the muddy Lake Carlyle

The wife popped her head out the companion and said: What?

To what I replied: Never mind...

We win some, we loose some...

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Response Posted - 09/08/2011 : 07:35:07

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by tbosch
 My Tilley hat! On Monday while sailing solo and taking sails down at the end of the day. I am so bummed

Edited by - Stinkpotter on 09/08/2011 07:39:43

tbosch
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Response Posted - 09/08/2011 : 08:35:09

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Stinkpotter
 <blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by tbosch
 My Tilley hat! On Monday while sailing solo and taking sails down at the end of the day. I am so bummed

<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">They float! (...mostly submerged but foam-lined top right at the surface.) It's still out there... I've recovered mine several times--when the C-25 mainsheet or a Beetle Cat boom has knocked it off.
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I spent about 30 minutes looking but had no luck. Low sun angle and waves around 2 feet. From one direction I could only see sunlight reflecting off the water. You are right, though, it is still floating somewhere on Lake Superior. Someone will find it eventually...

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Prospector
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Response Posted - 09/08/2011 : 09:05:41

We lost our lifering overboard. Sounds strange, but true.

The strap to hold it on teh "shoe" where it is attached to teh stern rail had rotted out, and I figured, why replace it?!? One less step if I ever need to put it to use. So we left teh ring sittingin the holder and sailed all season like that without incident.

Then we went racing on Labourday weekend (last year) in 30 knots, gusting 40 and had a blast. A heckuva blast in fact. It was some of the best sailing all year. Only trouble was, we were kinda buried in the gusts, and got flattened pretty good a couple times. We had the winches under regularly, and the coamings went down once or twice. Then as we side-slid down a wave we got hit by a blast that forced the boat into the wave we were riding down. Yee Haw!! I watched as Iris pressed into the face of the wave, laid down flat, and as we went down, the lifeline cut into the wave and our lifering was lifted off its holder, rope and all, and was gone in a heartbeat.

Now, we could have turned down and chased the ring, but we were racing, and were leading in the craziest distance race of the season, so we let the lifering go. In the end we won the race, and the lifering never returned. We found a replacement for $10 at a yard sale though, and so we are now legal. For those who are wondering, we only put the cabintop winches underwater once in that race, and were sailing with a single reef in the main and a 110% up front. We were also aggressively dumping the main on every puff we could, which was likely about half of them.

in retrospect, we should have had a double reef in and likelyu could have gotten by on a stormsail up front, but that would have killed us on the downwind leg.

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Stinkpotter
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Djibouti
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Response Posted - 09/08/2011 : 10:29:47

No protest from crossing the line "illegal"?

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Prospector
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Response Posted - 09/08/2011 : 13:51:32

we were actually worried about that Dave, but in reading the RRS we discovered that there is not anything clear about safety gear.

Here is the RRS exerpt:
"1.2 Life-Saving Equipment and Personal Flotation Devices

A boat shall carry adequate life-saving equipment for all persons on
board, including one item ready for immediate use, unless her class
rules make some other provision. Each competitor is individually
responsible for wearing a personal flotation device adequate for the
conditions."

The one item ready for immediate use could be interpreted a number of ways, in a dinghy there is no lifering. So one item ready for immediate use could be one of the square throw cushions, which we have three of in the cockpit. There is no mention of meeting CCG regs or anything of the sort in the RRS.

In teh regatta rules, the notice of race defaults to rule 1.2 of RRS and has words to the effect of "boats must carry safety equipment as outlined in rule 1.2 of RRS." Since neither are clear on what to carry, you are left with needing only a lifejacket and a lifesaving device, and nothing else. Good enough for me.

After we lost our lifering we tried protesting another boat on the safety gear thing in another race, and fell flat on our face.

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