Clothes drying 'How Not To'...

[CapnK]

When drying whites, do not drape them over oiled teak.

Unless, of course, you like tie-dyed looking, teak-colored whites.

[Tim]

When drying whites, do not drape them over oiled teak.

Unless, of course, you like tie-dyed looking, teak-colored whites.

We gonna get a fashion pic Kurt?  ;)

I use a couple of bungees between stays and halyards with the laundry clamped between.  ;D
Haven't lost any yet.

[CapnK]

If I hung the laundry outside right now, it'd come back in awfully stiff! ;D

[AdriftAtSea]

LOL... I love "How Not To" stories... they're so much more interesting that how to are.

[Lynx]

When my boat wsa new the compainway steps was oiled and came off on any wet things that I put on them.

[CapnK]

When my boat wsa new the compainway steps was oiled and came off on any wet things that I put on them.

I'd draped mine over the edge of a shelf with an oiled teak fiddle, same result. :) Looks like... well, I'll just let you imagine teak color on whites.  ::) Good thing these are 'undergarments'! lol ;D

[Leroy - Gulf 29]

:) Looks like... well, I'll just let you imagine teak color on whites.  ::) Good thing these are 'undergarments'! lol ;D
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Wow!  Preinstalled "bacon stripes" on your shorts!! ;D

[s/v Faith]

Lost my favorite pair of PFG shorts in Spanish Wells (about the only murky water I saw  in the Bahamas... other then Marsh harbor) after hand washing and trying to dry on the lifeline.  I used some plastic cloths pins and was laying in the cockpit when I heard the snap of the pin sliding off. 

  The plastic clothespins had come with the boat, and I never liked them.. so I had bought wooden ones but had not broken them out for some reason. 

  Dug around with the boat hook for an hour, did not find the shorts.  The rest of the plastic clothspins went to the trash the next trip ashore.....  :(

[AdriftAtSea]

When hanging clothes out to dry in a stiff breeze, it is often a good idea to run a line through the holes in the clothes, and then tie the line off.  That way, even if the clothes pins fail, the clothes stay with the boat, and if you tie the line tightly enough and high enough, they'll stay dry too. ;)