From busted knuckles to fire and rescue. Have you given "skin" for your boat?

[Molson]

Every spring i come up out of the cabin and stuff the top of my head into the top of the opening,usually tweeks my neck for a few weeks.And the normal bruising on thew chest from tuneups and water pump rebuilds.

I do the same thing.

ALso, I whack my head on the arch at least once a weekend. We got new canvas this spring, which raised the ceiling height. Before we had to semi crouch in the cockpit, or else you would hit your head on the support poles. Now that it is higher, I hit the arch while stepping down to the aft area.

 

[moparlvr4406]

saved a buddies brand new bassboat when he came in a little hot to the dock in the fog
I planted a foot good on the bow and ** was planning to ** step to the dock and push the bow off sideways BUT....
the old courtesy dock was mossy wood and the fog made it a bit slick
so I did the splits and raked all of the skin off the front of my right shin..ankle to knee ..but saved the bow and stayed out of the water.
Long walk to the truck with a big chunk of leg meat missing though.

 

[OldSkool]

A year has past since the last entry. Has this year been good for you or have you run a cleat between your toes? Other than knees being beat up from working in the bilge no bad news from me thus far.

 

[OldSkool]

Scott your pain came in the way of electrical issues this year.

 

[Billfletcher]

Not project related, but my wife took a terrible fall, right in front of me about 3 months ago. As she was boarding, she looked sideways, and missed the swim step. Came down head first in to the transom door, and then fell in to the water. She came out ok. I fell in about a year ago while boarding (not paying attention to my foot placement), and got smashed up as well. This has been covered in threads before - friendly reminder: if you have not fallen in while boarding, good for you. But be careful, it just takes one mistep and serious bodily damage can occurr.

 

[OldSkool]

Bill, Seems my issues is docking. Always seem to forget something (SKEG) or miss step onto the dock. No cleat damage this year seems Gary's mishaps have been ingrained into my brain.

 

[Gofirstclass]

Wow, remind me to never go boating around you guys 'cause you guys are dangerous.

Knocking solidly on wood here....I've been a boater for more years than most of you have been alive and I don't recall ever injuring myself on or around a boat. I came close once when I stepped into my dinghy but hooked my foot on a dock line. I went headfirst into a small triangle of space between the swim platform, the dinghy and the dock. I never hit any of them and came up beneath the boat in the next slip. After realizing where I was I surfaced and climbed out on his swim ladder.

GW witnessed that pirouette and thought I'd killed myself for sure when I didn't come back up right away, but all's well that ends well, right? No harm, no foul, right?

I'm still knocking on the wood!

 

[AMFM3]

Long story short, cleaning windshield pieces, stacking them on the floor prior to rolling up to pack away. Clean 1st one and put it on a towel. Put a towel on top of piece one. Clean second piece and put it on top of towel. Reaching for the next towel and my foot hits the corner of the top piece. Down I go.

plant my right leg, the one without a kneecap, hyperextended it and partially tore my ACL. Slammed my head into the stainless rail around the cockpit sink, cut for 7 stitches. Out cold and woke up with firemen and ambulance guys around me.

Never did did go out that weekend

Mark

ps...that was last year!

 

[OldSkool]

Holy Cow Mark, you should have told us that last year so we could have felt bad for you when it happened. :lol:
Glad this season went better for you.

 

[Gofirstclass]

Dang Mark, is that why you and J didn't make it down last summer?

The offer is still on the table whenever you can make it.

 

[AMFM3]

Thanks guys...and ya Mike that was part of it. Then Janet had her knee replaced and that didn't work so well. She's getting there slowly but surely.

I thought I did post about it earlier this year. But then I did smack my head!

Mark

 

[Gary Hill]

No body parts injured this year. But I lost my prescription sunglasses to Lake Michigan during our fishing tournament and then last night when securing the starboard spring line, I knocked my regular prescription glasses in the dam lake, ugh!

 

[Chris Nowell]

woke up with firemen and ambulance guys around me.

Never did did go out that weekend

Mark

ps...that was last year!

Woah Mark, thought for a minute that some of those sirens were for you!!!!!!!!! Couple of really nasty injuries on the 'ol water this weekend. One poor gal tried to jump from the swim grid to the dock at the club, wound up in an ambulance. I warn people regularly about this practice in smaller boats; you aren't pushing your self away from the boat, you're pushing the boat away from you and in effect jumping into the water with the engines running.

 

[BritLady]

We're knocking on wood that nothing happens worse than when my husband deep sixed his cell phone! I notice it's the first thing he leaves in the cabin or near the helm in the small plastic hold-alls I stuck up which he used to ignore

 

[moparlvr4406]

stabbed myself in the chest with a hoseclamp adjusting the shaft packings...looked like I'd been shot in the chest by the time I got done
but barely broke the skin.

 

[MancaveII]

Mary Mother of God I will never complain again about all the hand cuts I get from working in the engine bay. I thought it was designed to be death by a thousand cuts, but some of you are seriously lucky. I'm going to have my boat blessed and an exorcism performed just to be on the safe side. I'm also getting a larger first aid kit...

 

[OldSkool]

I did have one small incident this season. First time off the trailer I forgot to put the winch in neutral. I pushed OldSkool back and the handle thumbed my in the chest. Had the bruise for a couple days. Thanks for the reminder Jim (Chest shot) No blood letting though this season.:thumbsup:

 

[BritLady]

I'm also getting a larger first aid kit...

Oh Lord, we had quite the discussion on another thread recently about how big and what should be in a first aid kit......some folk had enough "stuff" to operate on the galley table

 

[trflgrl]

I'm going to have my boat blessed and an exorcism performed just to be on the safe side. I'm also getting a larger first aid kit...

Speaking of blessings....First Mate gave a blood sacrifice when we did our boat naming ceremony. We had appealed to three of the four winds and were heading to the stern for the final pour--on a dark and cloudy night when there was supposed to have been a meteor shower--and he abruptly said, "I think I'm bleeding." He insisted he was ok, though....as he nonchalantly pulled a sparkling wine cap from deep within his heel. We had set them down behind us, not realizing any were sharp side up, and he had planted squarely enough that it sliced instead of cumpling. He gritted his teeth through the remaining intonations, then our final appeal was to the first aid kit!

It wasn't exactly the magical mystical midnight I had envisioned, but Poseidon should never forget us, right?

 

[OldSkool]

Blood letting during naming ceremony is not recommended but what a way to please the gods. :lol:

Poseidon should be on a first name basis with your crew and your boat.