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The dishwasher shouldn't be your first attempt at cleaning. Also, no detergent and no heated dry. Wireless keyboards will need batts removed.

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-10459209-263.html


Ditto on the rinsing sea water with fresh and alcohol (not beer).


--Russ

I have reviewed my families own personal list of items which have demonstrated an affinity to briny and not so briny deep, .
and all except 4 have been recovered or repaired.

Like many of us, I was young when initiated to boating and the outdoors, and lucky enough to start losing things overboard or in the water at and early age.
OF course the simpler things like tools, fishing reels, clothing, fenders, boat plugs, anchors, seats, masts, booms, downrigger, seat cushions, snowmobile, glasses, outboard, wallet, dive knives, weight belts, etc.....

but it became a fine art by the time I was 15 or 16, then progressing to things like minolta camera (interrupting a perfectly good nude sunbathing afternoon with 34 degree glacier lake dive (funny how testicles sound)) , backpack......(was still in it at the time), cylinder head (was tethered to a boom, so it got wet not dirty), antenna, firearms/cases (I highly recommend cases as they make most weapons float), ....................(DELETED).............cell phones, handhelds on tether, silverware from the barbecue, diamond earing (this one was unique as it was lost inside the boat in a sink drain, only thing I have ever seen lost overboard from inside a boat), Nikon digital Camera, (almost went diving for that one, probably could have made it before it dropped to deep to recover the SD ram), Self (there was one kayaking trip on lake union where I was trying out a new very narrow kayak -4 inches narrower than my shoulders- while wearing work clothes slacks, tie, button up shirt - and I was trying to get ahead of the boats avoiding the seaplane...... ooooopppppsss..... VISA really does go everywhere. Scariest was the bosses 4 yr old who jumped out of his moms lap into the water at about 25 kts (came up for air and wanted to jump again- thanks a lot scott)

Now I keep a big net and one small rare earth magnet in a shielded metal box and another on the dock box, (my neighbor still thinks there is a magnetic anomoly in the north everett marina.......) and I jacket all children on the boat.

The the lucky thing about this is that of all those things that went in, only the earing, nikon, glasses and a few pieces of silverwhere were lost forever, the rest were recoverered and returned to service.

waternwaves wrote:snowmobile

SNOWMOBILE

Rick

pokerrick1 wrote:

waternwaves wrote:snowmobile

SNOWMOBILE

Rick

Sure, why not. You think they are only for winter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaGXKKsxw-Y

Shouldn't he have been wearing a life vest

Rick

PS You have to keep it moving< I take it - - - I assume they don't float very well

pokerrick1 wrote:Shouldn't he have been wearing a life vest

Rick

PS You have to keep it moving< I take it - - - I assume they don't float very well

Well, I do believe he was breaking one or two coast guard regulations.

I hear it's wise to have a line attached to a float to make retrieval from the bottom easier.


--Russ

hmmm.

coast guard licenses vessels, they do not inspect airplanes that operate on the water, nor snowmobiles so there is some precedence .......tho they claim jurisdiction over navigable waterways....so when they are frozen, they are not navigable.

The CG documents are full of the word "Vessel", and frequently use the tautalogy of "watercraft", and polaris snow machines are definitely not that. nor do they make the blind statement that everything on the water is under their purview tho they do state that they have the right to board all vessels......

furthermore.....if they pushed the definition to include operation on snow (hard water) if would have to go get licensing for my crampons and clibming boots which I use on snow. (or would they add a caveat for limited depth.............hmmmmm)

By most reasonable logic, they could not legally board or stop a polaris.......

To bring this thread to some sort of conclusion I just ordered a new camcorder...

Now to find a lanyard to secure it around my neck when on the boat.

New JVC on sale at Best Buy.

Hope to have some new videos posted soon.

Jim

Final leg into St Marys after a 10 hour transit up the ICW from St Augustne Labor Day 2009. Had just made a call to wife saying I be there soon. Flipped up the cooler top to grab an ice cold one and saw my cell phone kerplink into the ICW. So far, that's the only casualty I have suffered and I feel luckly.

Oh by the way...don't tell my wife...I haven't told her yet...

c130king wrote:Oh by the way...don't tell my wife...I haven't told her yet...

Too bad you couldn't buy one exactly like the old one...!
"Of course it's the same camera hunny...! Uh...credit card bill? What credit card bill?"

vizwhiz wrote:

c130king wrote:Oh by the way...don't tell my wife...I haven't told her yet...

Too bad you couldn't buy one exactly like the old one...!
"Of course it's the same camera hunny...! Uh...credit card bill? What credit card bill?"

Very similar camera...she has never used it and won't know the difference...and I do the finances...

I am a very sneaky guy...

c130king wrote:Oh by the way...don't tell my wife...I haven't told her yet...

Perfect timing. I see a Christmas gift in her future.



And BTW, you didn't buy the old one with Amex did you? They will replace it free as part of their buyer warranty thingy.


--Russ

I won't tell...

Very interesting ideas in this thread, but before you draw it to a conclusion Jim, the one thing not mentioned is the next time you need to open/close the ballast valve, don't open the captains seat, USE A BOAT HOOK OVER THE STERN Pull the valve up with the hook end, and push the valve down with the handle end.

Ray