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- Vessel Name
- FlyWright
- Vessel Make
- 1977 Marshall Californian 34 LRC
We all have used boat tools for unintended purposes...like using a screwdriver to pry open a bottle top. Once you try it and find it works, it gets filed away as a useful 2nd purpose for that object. Maybe it even becomes its primary use.
Sometimes it's boat components that get misused. Dswizzler told me about the rail on his Gibson houseboat that was open at the bottom and worked perfectly as a bottle opener....anywhere around the perimeter of his boat! Genius!
That happened to me with my laser pointer thermometer. I'm supposed to use it to monitor engine and water temps and I do use it for that sometimes. But more often than not, the tool is being used to find the very coldest beer in the fridge.
I like it so much, I even bought one for home!
What's your favorite misuse for a boat tool or a boat part??
Sometimes it's boat components that get misused. Dswizzler told me about the rail on his Gibson houseboat that was open at the bottom and worked perfectly as a bottle opener....anywhere around the perimeter of his boat! Genius!
That happened to me with my laser pointer thermometer. I'm supposed to use it to monitor engine and water temps and I do use it for that sometimes. But more often than not, the tool is being used to find the very coldest beer in the fridge.
I like it so much, I even bought one for home!
What's your favorite misuse for a boat tool or a boat part??
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