How much "stuff" have you lost in the lake?

bnydish

bnydish

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While cleaning the boat on a BEAUTIFUL 80 degree October day with my new Shurehold Pole/cleaning brush ($100),...OOOPS,..it rolled out of the bucket and into 50 feet of water.
DAMN,...this is the second thing that I have dropped into Lake Norman this year of value.

Who's lost other stuff? No joke about the thousands of dollars in repairs into the water.
 
For me, just a few nuts/bolts, 7/16" socket and a screwdriver. The Admiral and kids came back from the beach a few years ago. She flipped over the beach bag to get all the sand out, and there it went. The Admiral got a new watch for her birthday a few weeks later.
 
At least two beach towels that weren't secured before hitting cruising speed, a pair of sunglasses (inexpensive) on top of my head that fell off as I bent over the side, a couple of cigar cutters that I just got fumbled fingered with while snipping. Just enough to keep the lake gods happy. :)
 
Approx. 5 beach towels, several pairs of sun glasses, just this weekend my swim platform carpet runner (a cheap industrial one) and three anchors that I had to cut lose.

Not as bad as my neighbor ... he was working with his little twin tank compressor when he janked the air hose and pulled the SOB over the sea wall *splash* into ten feet of water ... he didn't enven bother to pull it out ...
 
There's another thread here that discusses "Davy Jones' Locker." I have a decent recovery rate. One I never told about was a pair of sunglasses I lost while going upstream from the I-35 boat ramp on Lake Dunlop, part of the Guadalupe River between Canyon Lake and The Gulf (memory?) near San Antonio/New Braunfels, Tx. There was only room upstream during high-flow times. Other times, the water was very shallow. It was a narrow creek. I was looking down at the gravel bed and the fish swimming upstream (in-place), as the flow was at least 5 knots.

So, I drove further upstream and tied off to a big tree. I let the boat back about 20 feet into the middle (only about 30 feet wide). Then, I put on a scuba mask/snorkle, and lowered myself back on a ski rope. Once I was back a bit, I had my wife start the engine and put the boat in gear to steer left and right a bit. I snorkled, in place, at 5 - 8 knots. It was really hard hanging on and keeping the mask on. I felt like I was flying at 100mph. Once I saw my sunny's, I directed my head down and "flew" down to the bottom and got my glasses. Once I came back up, it was all I could do to hang on, keep my mask on, and hold my glasses. I made my way back up the rope to the boat.

While I was behind the boat, I looked forward at the stern drive and the spinning prop. It was really a great sight. It was like being drug behind a moving boat, but it wasn't moving. The water was crystal clear.
 
This year: my cell phone and my daughter's ipod!
Electronics just don't play well with water!
oh yeah...and my new Sea Ray hat! Damn!!!
 
Lets not even start talking about hat. Too many to even think about, even some with those fancy clip on straps (Doesn't always work). 3.5 Hrs outboard motor many years ago, phone a couple years ago. Fishing rod, lens cap, anchor. I've tried to keep the water gods happy.
 
If lake levels keep dropping we will be picking this stuff pretty soon.
 
The fact that you can count and recall the items lost overboard lets me know that you haven't endured REAL loss yet. If I had a nickel.....
 
several pairs of Sunglasses, a pager when I was on call and a set of keys at the launch returning from a night cruise. Luckily I was able to feel around the launch with my toes and get home.(being a locksmith , that would have been very embarrassing)
 
I'm with Matt. I can't even begin to count, nor do I want to, all the stuff I've lost in the drink over the years. This year alone I lost a very expensive camera, my grill, a cell phone, sunglasses, a battery charger (that was charging up the dinghy), 4 fishing poles, and numerous towels and clothing articles. Haven't lost any dogs or people yet though so I guess I'm lucky.
 
Four Suns said:
I'm with Matt. I can't even begin to count, nor do I want to, all the stuff I've lost in the drink over the years. This year alone I lost a very expensive camera, my grill, a cell phone, sunglasses, a battery charger (that was charging up the dinghy), 4 fishing poles, and numerous towels and clothing articles. Haven't lost any dogs or people yet though so I guess I'm lucky.
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Gary you have too much boat to put under all of those things. You should install a RV awning below the rub rail and catch it all
 
I've lost numerous little things, but by far the worst loss was the regulator to my gas grill. In the dark. right before suppertime. Have you ever tried to convince the Admiral that raw steak tips are good for you?????? I'd be interested to know how you pulled that off.......

Luckily I was in only 5-6 feet of water with a bright, sandy bottom, and found it the next morning. Took it apart, blew it out and all was well.

Steak tips are good for breakfast, too......

Bill
 
Lost a cell phone last weekend. Didn't really lose it, just destroyed it while I was discoving just how slick the carpet on the trailer bunk actually is.

The most fun I have ever had while losing something happened many years ago on the Colorado river when I was offered a ride in a drag boat set up for giving rides. I was told to remove my hat and glasses by the owner and being the young know-it-all I was, I just turned the hat around backwards and told him these glasses ($169 Oakley's) wont come off while on the motorcycle at 140 so I am pretty sure they will be ok. Needless to say about 6 seconds later at 170 MPH they both had vanished:huh: he just looked at me, laughed, and said, wanna go again? I politely declined.
 
A few weeks ago I watched a guy lose his truck and trailer into the water. Tow truck found it for him.
 
Gas grill off the dock at Joe Pool Marina. Shoved over by a party gone out of hand by a former slip neighbor, not sure of the entry point for said grill.

Good news here abouts Fort Worth is a dive service that specializes in cleaning boat bottoms also moonlights as an evidence recovery diver for the local police, and also retrieves dropped items for any of the local lakes. He's very good and it only cost me about $75 to retrieve the grill in 15 foot of water.

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