Suspenders and sailboats
With the holidays I have been wearing red Santa suspenders
that had given to me over 10 years ago. After all you can only wear them for a
few weeks a year…well I guess you could wear them all year round, but I do not.
I was working on the battery compartment of my sailboat, and
being festive in my red suspenders at the same time. I think it must be a rule
that a boat battery has to be put in a place that it is out of the way and a
little inconvenient to work on. With mine, you have to kneel in the cockpit and
lean into the storage area. Of course, you have to empty out part of the locker, and
those things I just set in the cockpit. Then the safety cover over the
batteries has to come off and I set it in the cock pit. Now I have access to
the batteries but not much room in the cockpit. 8-)
The battery terminals were a little corroded so I thought I
would clean them since I was in there anyway. I got up to get the cleaning
tools, and as I did, I caught my suspender strap on something. I could not stand
up and because of the things I had set around the cockpit I could not turn to
un hook it. I had done a partial turn when I started to stand and could not
return to the position I had been in. I figured if I pulled on it would in snap.
I pulled, it unsnapped and popped up and hit me in the head and then recoiled
and wrapped around something else.
I was still stuck but not as badly. I was not going to just
pull on it again…That snap on the end really hurt when it popped me. I just
would unsnap the suspenders and get free. That was not as easy as I thought it
should have been. I could reach one of the clips but it did not want to un
snap. After I freed myself I found that the one end of the suspender had neatly
wrapped around the main sheet line. If I had wanted to do that, there would
have been no way I could have done it.
I thought it was funny after I got composed. I first
rearranged the cockpit so I had more maneuvering room. I got my tools and as I
moved passed one of the shrouds, it reached out and grabbed my suspenders.
That was it...I took the red Santa things off. It was obvious my boat did not
like them!
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