Hi all
Went for a sail yesterday and was walking back along the heeled deck back to the cockpit, turned around and caught one of my Crocs on a deck fittings and lost it overboard
I didn't bother to try and get it back as they are getting a bit smooth on the bottom,are slippery on wet concrete, so it was time for a new set
After 4 years of sailing as well as yesterdays Croc i have also lost a old metal winch handle and a screw driver so i haven't done too bad
Regards Don
I am a bit disappointed there Don, not diving into the snow melt from Mt Hartz to get your Croc!
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I am a bit disappointed there Don, not diving into the snow melt from Mt Hartz to get your Croc!
Not that keen 
although the water temp might have been warmer than the air
It was around 12 degrees at the time but with the wind chill as we were sailing my hand held meter said it felt like 8 degrees
We had a good sail yesterday with around 15 knots of breeze and down the bottom of the Huon (we went down to Eggs and Bacon) the Huon was a bit lumpy
Regards Don
Standard stuff really.
Sunnies
Tools (screwdriver/spanners)
Car keys
And a fender rack.
It got to the point I started tying string to my tools if I was working over the side.
Expensive pair of Sunnies fell off my head when I was pulling up the anchor,.....good wide brimed hat out in the channel. Had a few go's at getting it back but on the 3rd attempt it sank too deep. Just yesterday i lost a fender overboard when I was tied up to the Sorrento pier putting on a new fanbelt......kept my eye open when leaving the pier and got it back a few hundred yards back towards Blairgowrie. I always tie string to my tools.
Unknown number of hats.
They float for about 5 seconds less than the time it takes to turn the boat around and get back to them. This rule seems to apply regardles of what you are doing, or the style of hat.
Hats overboard on MB is an excuse for a practice MOB. Haven't not recovered one yet.
iPhone in expensive Lifeproof cover, mine in the Calliope at Gladstone.
Mates iPhone somewhere between here and New Caledonia.
Numerous shackle pins just North of Elizabeth reef.
Set of dinghy oars at Lord Howe
Inflatable on coast of Viti Levu
One portable toilet lid.
One Portable toilet bucket
Would you like me to go on
I lost a pair of $600 specs overboard near my mooring, in Gosford at the time. Deoth about 3m and mud bottom. I mentioned it some weeks later to a friend who was an ex navy diver. "No worries mate we'll find them".
He brought up his diving gear the next weekend (lured by a carton of free beer) and rolled into the water with a length of flouro line attached to himself and after diving below the other end tied to my mooring block.
Then he swam slowly in diminishing circles and let the flouro line pull him a tiny bit closer to the mooring block as it would around it and as he swam round and round. We sat on the boat watching the bubbles circling the boat.
Suddenly up he came from the depths with huge grin holding the $600 glasses. He said he had to swim around 6" off the bottom to see what was tuhere because ir was so murky and very slowly not to stir up the dust and they were half under the mud and given another month or two we wouldn't have found them. Amazing
Many years ago my very older brother while water skiing lost his false teeth while skiing in an irrigation lake ( height changes on demand of farm irrigators.
Maybe a year or so the level was much lower and while walking along the shore line he thought . This is where I lost my teeth and he looked down and there they were
Ive lost reading glasses blown off by the wind
Leatherman times 3. Drill bits. Shackles. Fish ive just caught.
..also a really good brand new fiberglass paddle board and an aqua.pro dinghy when i panicked in a 50knot squall when i was less experienced on the bluebird i cut them loose while towing them....ill never get over it...who found a mint green oaddle board probaly in the Hawkesbury +!!
A brand new long handled shifter, only got to use it for maybe 3 minutes before it slid down the side deck.
About 3 bucket hats, none of which was as good as the one before.
At one of our club regattas, one of the crew had his cap blow off just around the startline.
It was for sheepstations, so we didn't go back.
I thought is was just your average hat, and felt bad when I found out later it was a Cats premiership cap, complete with signatures.
lost the wife over the back after hitting forward gear. It was a big decision whether to go back, but common sense prevailed, who would cook my dinner and do the washing?
While reaching on an old Quick cat many years ago just about to pass the finish line hanging out on the hiking board I lost my footing and when over the end of the hiking board on the way down it caught my short and they ended up around my knees So the view from the finish line cabin saw a person hanging off the side of the hull with onew hand and th other hand grasping the hiking board with my bare A#ss blowing in the wind while flying a hull 
Lost my $600 anchor after the whitworth swival snapped when it hit the roller! Lost a few shackle pins when i was a kid attatching the main halyard so grew out of that habbit! Thats it in 43 years on the watet!
A Rivers boat shoe, which meant the other one was no use - wife didn't like them any way, I have my suspicions how it happened to go overboard!
A full stubbie of Wild Turkey off Whitehaven Beach 
A Lewmar cap with "Control Freak" written on it.
A Jeppeson cap with "Get Onboard" written on it.
A thong - the type for your feet SA.
My temper
My dignity (not that I ever really had that)
Hats
I once lost a hat while going upwind in a Yngling nationals. On the next lap, about 20 minutes later, we went up the same side of the course, went chasing the same geographic shift, and by pure chance I looked up ahead, saw the hat still floating just ahead of us, reached across from my hiking position, grabbed the hat while we stayed dead on course, and shoved it back on my head. What are the chances of that?
My favourite bra and undies. .. undies blew off the line in a good wind. Dropped the bra while I was climbing aboard from tender. Both sank before I could grab them.
Phone fell out of my pocket in the Narrows, bounced across the deck and down the back steps, one two three. I hated that Nokia, nearly cried for joy at loosing it until I relised it had all my address book in it. I wonder if the crocks there ever got a signal.
About 4 weeks ago I was fishing off Sorrento with 3 of my boys when i turned to see one dive headfirst into the drink!! I had the lifering ready in an instant because of the tide flow but he surfaced next to me with his iPhone thrust high in the air saying, "Grab my bloody phone"!! .... he had dived in after he dropped his phone overboard and grabbed it on the way down!! We got the phone and him back on board, dried and packed the iPhone in rice we had in our provisions but it never did work again. Luckily, it was insured, and most of his treasured pics where backed up on the computer.
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Lost a stainless boat ladder numerous boat fittings a few boat hooks and a couple of hats
Expensive reading glasses during a mid week race, gone the elcheapo since then. Too many hats to count. Reasonably lucky compared to some.
Just this morning... upset about this one... a great little ceramic knife in it's sheath. Picked it up off the deck to put it away and somehow flicked it overboard. Was a present from my daughter in law... and my favourite green...
A crate load of winch handles, 1/2 a spinnaker, several caps and a few beach shoes.
a long while ago I lost a whole toolbox full of tools over board while I was moving it out of my way so I could get to a fuel filter, tripped and over it went, somewhere in Corio bay
Three sets of Tongs, the barbecue type. Our Top Hat crowd had a raft up a few years ago and on the rainy Sunday morning, I offered to cook brekkie on the kettle bbq.
Due to the rain, there were 7 people somehow sardined into my cabin, and me in the cockpit cooking bacon and sausages. The tongs were just a tad slippery, and sure enough slipped from my grasp during the first sausage turn. I called inside to ask if anyone had another set, which were duly delivered after clambering across to the 4th boat on the raft. Within just a few minutes, on the second flip, another set of tongs, this time the borrowed ones went in. Sheepishly I apologised to the owner and was then volunteered another set from yet another boat. These were tied on to the stern rail, and used successfully to finish the cooking. Once done, we all cleared up and prepared to depart. On untying the tongs from the stern rail to hand them back to the owner, they dropped into the cockpit. I bet you thought they were going over the side didn't you! Well, they did, when the hand over failed due to a bit of wash hitting the boat at the critical time, and over they went.
Three tongs in one breakfast session. Now they always get tied on, and we have two sets.....
