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Tried once again to re-install my roller furling. This consists of
taking off the forestay and then somehow pushing a heavy plastic extrusion up said forestay (it is still attached at top). This is done by threading a line thru said extrusion, attaching it to the bottom of forestay end and then pulling on line while pushing extrusion up. sorta difficult if you dont do it right..I got it right today. Then used vice grips on the forestay to prevent it from slipping back down while I slid the heavy plastic furling drum up the forestay. I slipped, plastic drum fell onto dock, bounced once then splash. OH, SH%$. Now what? If I was younger and broke like years ago, I'd've just jumped in and dove down to the bottom of the filthy canal and retrieved it. Not anymore. I found various long handled implements to try to find it 8' down and finally located it but simply couldnt get it. This water is basically opaque so seeing it is outta the question. Well, being older and more financially secure, I found the number of a diver who says he'll get it out tomorrow for 30 bucks.......money well spent I think. |
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Frogwatch wrote:
Tried once again to re-install my roller furling. This consists of taking off the forestay and then somehow pushing a heavy plastic extrusion up said forestay (it is still attached at top). This is done by threading a line thru said extrusion, attaching it to the bottom of forestay end and then pulling on line while pushing extrusion up. sorta difficult if you dont do it right..I got it right today. Then used vice grips on the forestay to prevent it from slipping back down while I slid the heavy plastic furling drum up the forestay. I slipped, plastic drum fell onto dock, bounced once then splash. OH, SH%$. Now what? If I was younger and broke like years ago, I'd've just jumped in and dove down to the bottom of the filthy canal and retrieved it. Not anymore. I found various long handled implements to try to find it 8' down and finally located it but simply couldnt get it. This water is basically opaque so seeing it is outta the question. Well, being older and more financially secure, I found the number of a diver who says he'll get it out tomorrow for 30 bucks.......money well spent I think. Maybe you need a hobby more suited to your diminishing abilities. I hear golf works for the rapidly aging. |
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On Nov 16, 9:25*pm, Boater wrote:
Frogwatch wrote: Tried once again to re-install my roller furling. *This consists of taking off the forestay and then somehow pushing a heavy plastic extrusion up said forestay (it is still attached at top). *This is done by threading a line thru said extrusion, attaching it to the bottom of forestay end and then pulling on line while pushing extrusion up. sorta difficult if you dont do it right..I got it right today. *Then used vice grips on the forestay to prevent it from slipping back down while I slid the heavy plastic furling drum up the forestay. *I slipped, plastic drum fell onto dock, bounced once then splash. *OH, SH%$. *Now what? If I was younger and broke like years ago, I'd've just jumped in and dove down to the bottom of the filthy canal and retrieved it. *Not anymore. *I found various long handled implements to try to find it 8' down and finally located it but simply couldnt get it. *This water is basically opaque so seeing it is outta the question. Well, being older and more financially secure, I found the number of a diver who says he'll get it out tomorrow for 30 bucks.......money well spent I think. Maybe you need a hobby more suited to your diminishing abilities. I hear golf works for the rapidly aging.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - |
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On Nov 16, 9:25 pm, Boater wrote:
Frogwatch wrote: Tried once again to re-install my roller furling. This consists of taking off the forestay and then somehow pushing a heavy plastic extrusion up said forestay (it is still attached at top). This is done by threading a line thru said extrusion, attaching it to the bottom of forestay end and then pulling on line while pushing extrusion up. sorta difficult if you dont do it right..I got it right today. Then used vice grips on the forestay to prevent it from slipping back down while I slid the heavy plastic furling drum up the forestay. I slipped, plastic drum fell onto dock, bounced once then splash. OH, SH%$. Now what? If I was younger and broke like years ago, I'd've just jumped in and dove down to the bottom of the filthy canal and retrieved it. Not anymore. I found various long handled implements to try to find it 8' down and finally located it but simply couldnt get it. This water is basically opaque so seeing it is outta the question. Well, being older and more financially secure, I found the number of a diver who says he'll get it out tomorrow for 30 bucks.......money well spent I think. Maybe you need a hobby more suited to your diminishing abilities. I hear golf works for the rapidly aging. Only time i was ever on a golf course was late and night and I scored. |
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Frogwatch wrote:
On Nov 16, 9:25 pm, Boater wrote: Frogwatch wrote: Tried once again to re-install my roller furling. This consists of taking off the forestay and then somehow pushing a heavy plastic extrusion up said forestay (it is still attached at top). This is done by threading a line thru said extrusion, attaching it to the bottom of forestay end and then pulling on line while pushing extrusion up. sorta difficult if you dont do it right..I got it right today. Then used vice grips on the forestay to prevent it from slipping back down while I slid the heavy plastic furling drum up the forestay. I slipped, plastic drum fell onto dock, bounced once then splash. OH, SH%$. Now what? If I was younger and broke like years ago, I'd've just jumped in and dove down to the bottom of the filthy canal and retrieved it. Not anymore. I found various long handled implements to try to find it 8' down and finally located it but simply couldnt get it. This water is basically opaque so seeing it is outta the question. Well, being older and more financially secure, I found the number of a diver who says he'll get it out tomorrow for 30 bucks.......money well spent I think. Maybe you need a hobby more suited to your diminishing abilities. I hear golf works for the rapidly aging. Only time i was ever on a golf course was late and night and I scored. With John Herring? :) |
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On Nov 16, 9:25*pm, Boater wrote:
Frogwatch wrote: Tried once again to re-install my roller furling. *This consists of taking off the forestay and then somehow pushing a heavy plastic extrusion up said forestay (it is still attached at top). *This is done by threading a line thru said extrusion, attaching it to the bottom of forestay end and then pulling on line while pushing extrusion up. sorta difficult if you dont do it right..I got it right today. *Then used vice grips on the forestay to prevent it from slipping back down while I slid the heavy plastic furling drum up the forestay. *I slipped, plastic drum fell onto dock, bounced once then splash. *OH, SH%$. *Now what? If I was younger and broke like years ago, I'd've just jumped in and dove down to the bottom of the filthy canal and retrieved it. *Not anymore. *I found various long handled implements to try to find it 8' down and finally located it but simply couldnt get it. *This water is basically opaque so seeing it is outta the question. Well, being older and more financially secure, I found the number of a diver who says he'll get it out tomorrow for 30 bucks.......money well spent I think. Maybe you need a hobby more suited to your diminishing abilities. I hear golf works for the rapidly aging.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Or he could spend his days ruining others and making random **** up like you? Rowdy Mouse Racing, Living life in the non-virtual world... |
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On Sun, 16 Nov 2008 23:22:53 -0500, Boater wrote:
wrote: On Nov 16, 9:25 pm, Boater wrote: Frogwatch wrote: Tried once again to re-install my roller furling. This consists of taking off the forestay and then somehow pushing a heavy plastic extrusion up said forestay (it is still attached at top). This is done by threading a line thru said extrusion, attaching it to the bottom of forestay end and then pulling on line while pushing extrusion up. sorta difficult if you dont do it right..I got it right today. Then used vice grips on the forestay to prevent it from slipping back down while I slid the heavy plastic furling drum up the forestay. I slipped, plastic drum fell onto dock, bounced once then splash. OH, SH%$. Now what? If I was younger and broke like years ago, I'd've just jumped in and dove down to the bottom of the filthy canal and retrieved it. Not anymore. I found various long handled implements to try to find it 8' down and finally located it but simply couldnt get it. This water is basically opaque so seeing it is outta the question. Well, being older and more financially secure, I found the number of a diver who says he'll get it out tomorrow for 30 bucks.......money well spent I think. Maybe you need a hobby more suited to your diminishing abilities. I hear golf works for the rapidly aging.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Or he could spend his days ruining others and making random **** up like you? Rowdy Mouse Racing, Living life in the non-virtual world... Get some videos the next time the cops throw you around, eh? We need a few laughs here. Harry, you provide more than we can handle as it is. -- A Harry Krause truism: "It's not a *baby* kicking, beautiful bride, it's just a fetus!" |
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On Nov 16, 9:25*pm, Boater wrote:
Frogwatch wrote: Tried once again to re-install my roller furling. *This consists of taking off the forestay and then somehow pushing a heavy plastic extrusion up said forestay (it is still attached at top). *This is done by threading a line thru said extrusion, attaching it to the bottom of forestay end and then pulling on line while pushing extrusion up. sorta difficult if you dont do it right..I got it right today. *Then used vice grips on the forestay to prevent it from slipping back down while I slid the heavy plastic furling drum up the forestay. *I slipped, plastic drum fell onto dock, bounced once then splash. *OH, SH%$. *Now what? If I was younger and broke like years ago, I'd've just jumped in and dove down to the bottom of the filthy canal and retrieved it. *Not anymore. *I found various long handled implements to try to find it 8' down and finally located it but simply couldnt get it. *This water is basically opaque so seeing it is outta the question. Well, being older and more financially secure, I found the number of a diver who says he'll get it out tomorrow for 30 bucks.......money well spent I think. Maybe you need a hobby more suited to your diminishing abilities. I hear golf works for the rapidly aging.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Jeebus, Harry, can you be any more of a low life asshole? |
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Frogwatch wrote:
Tried once again to re-install my roller furling. This consists of taking off the forestay and then somehow pushing a heavy plastic extrusion up said forestay (it is still attached at top). This is done by threading a line thru said extrusion, attaching it to the bottom of forestay end and then pulling on line while pushing extrusion up. sorta difficult if you dont do it right..I got it right today. Then used vice grips on the forestay to prevent it from slipping back down while I slid the heavy plastic furling drum up the forestay. I slipped, plastic drum fell onto dock, bounced once then splash. OH, SH%$. Now what? If I was younger and broke like years ago, I'd've just jumped in and dove down to the bottom of the filthy canal and retrieved it. Not anymore. I found various long handled implements to try to find it 8' down and finally located it but simply couldnt get it. This water is basically opaque so seeing it is outta the question. Well, being older and more financially secure, I found the number of a diver who says he'll get it out tomorrow for 30 bucks.......money well spent I think. We have all had days like this. Lesson learned I hope. Assume that todays events will repeat if you don't do something different. Get a helper. Tether everything you possibly can. Can you get to a dock in shallow water to do this work? Better yet haul the boat. |
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