I have had many hats blown into the water while underway, but I am very fast
with a boat hook, and I don't believe I actually lost any.


"Garth Almgren" wrote in message
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On 4/8/2005 10:06 AM, Black Dog wrote:

Hats, hats and more hats. Every summer the lake takes a least 4 hats.

Several hats of mine have gone swimming, thanks to rough-ish water and my
head bouncing up into the airstream, but I've been able to retrieve all of
them before they sank, only a little saltier for the experience. Last one
was last summer up in Cowichan Bay, BC.

Never lost a pair of glasses since I always use a strap, but I have lost
several small hand tools.

One boat hook when I was about 6 or 7 (Hey, I had heard that they floated.
Nobody told me that particular style had to be *extended* to float!).

Myself, once, when I gave an inexperienced moron a helping push off the
end of the local launch's float. Shoved just a little too hard, and
suddenly *I* was also off the end of the local launch's float.
Thankfully, it was a *really* low tide and there was only about 2 feet of
water at that spot.


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~/Garth - 1966 Glastron V-142 Skiflite: "Blue-Boat"
"There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing
as simply messing about in boats."
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