Two free Boat bumpers
I went down to our boat dock this morning and was wishing
that there was just a little more breeze to make it a nice sailing day when I
saw a boat bumper floating in the canal across from our boat. I like finding
free stuff like that. From the size of it, the bumper was not a cheap one, and in
fact we had two just like it. I got the kayak off the dock and paddled over to
it a pulled claimed my prize. When I got back to the dock I found it was not
just like the ones we had, it was one of the ones we had. The line that had
held it on the boat had just rubbed through and the bumper had just taken a
swim.
I checked the lines on all our bumpers and replaced the
lines on two of them. I still think I was lucky to have found a free bumper even
if it was my own. I was still dollars ahead not having to buy a replacement for
it.
The other free bumper was one we had found when we were sailing
in Key West. We found this big bumper drifting in open water. It was very big,
about 2 ½ ‘in diameter and 4’ long. We
hooked a line to it and towed it back to the Marina we were at. It took 3 of us
to get it on to the dock. The bumper was damaged on one side and one of the big
rings that a line would have been tied to was broken. With the good side up, it made a nice dock
fixture. This big brown bumper got nicknamed “The Turd” by the others on the
dock. The name fit, and it was functional and we put it to use when a storm
came up. The rest of the time it was dock art. It was too large for us to take
with us when we left Key West so we do not know what became of “The Turd”. The
best that could be said about it was it was free.
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