Boating and Things Of Value

[Poodroo]

Just interested in hearing peoples' stories on what items of value have been lost during a fishing trip. On a recent trip out in the boat with my daughter I put her onto her personal best fish being a 43cm Estuary Cod. Not huge but to a 10 year old it was a monster. She reeled it in all on her own and I netted it and she was proud as punch once it hit the deck. I got her to hold it up for a few photos and rigged up her line and got her straight back into fishing. My plan was to keep the photos on the camera until such a time when I could get them onto the computer. Incidentally this was going to take a while to achieve seeing as the motherboard in the computer fried just days before and I was in the process of building a new computer.

Once I had the time to complete building the computer and finally got it up and running I decided to load up the photos from the camera. This is where my thought processes starting to turn to horror. "Where the hell did I leave the camera?" For the life of me I cannot remember the last time I saw it apart from when I used it to take those photos. I turned the house, car, boat upside down but to no avail. It's gone! :'( It's not the loss of the camera so much but it is the photos of my daughter that have the most worth. Can't imagine how I lost it but my thought is because it was a compact little camera I ended up putting it in my side pocket of my shorts. I must have sat in the drivers eat in the car and it has dropped out beside the seat and fallen out when I opened the door. Perhaps it dropped out into the boat and whilst parked on the roadside at my brother's place on the way home someone may have walked passed and seen it and scored a bargain. However it happened it is lost. Insurance is going to cover it but I would love to get the photos but know they are lost with the camera.

Feel free to make me feel better and share stories of what you have managed to lose whilst out fishing.

Cheers,

Poodroo

[sleepygreg]

Poodroo,

You are so right about the material loss being the lesser problem, but the loss of the memories can never be replaced by any insurance company.

It wasnt on a fishing trip, but it was about fishing. I had scanned all my fishing pics from a lifetimes worth of slides and photos onto my computer, thinking they would be a permanent and easy reference point in the "new age of technology". Me being a technophobe at the time and thinking i was pretty bloody clever to do this, didnt even think (or know) about backing up to disc or making permanent records on portable hard drives (dont think they were readily available then anyway). Well....story is.....powere surge after blackout in a storm one day.....computer fried. All pics gone. Now i still have the slides and prints, but it took me six months to scan them all in the first place, and they are all packed in a storage unit somewhere, but im sure they have deteriorated even further.

Lesson for me is.....back up to disc, more than one copy....and not stored in same place. I now also download camera the day the pic is taken, and dont erase the camera card until all backups are completed...even then i still make a third backup just in case....guess i have become paranoid about it.

Cheers
Greg

[honda900]

Guys sorry to hear about your data loss,

unfortunately its an all to common event. Just to give you all a heads up, there are lots of companies that will host a backup for you free of charge.

I have no affiliation with this company nor do I use them but, they offer 50gb of data storage for free, so for those of you with data and arent really sure of how to do regular backups or understand data recovery techniques then it may be of use to you.

Biggest problem most of you will have is finding where you store your information.

http://www.adrive.com/.


Regards
Honda

[finga]

I've lost nothing except for a lot of yabbi's and prawns over the years.
I make sure everything in the boat has a place and everything is in it's place.
That way I know exactly where to find it all the time.
My pet hate is looking for stuff. Absolute waste of valuable time in my books.

The camera and phone have a waterproof box which is always in it's own compartment so even if I forget to take them out at the ramp they'll still be there when I get home.

I honestly do not know how some people go fishing in their boats with everything including rods are rattling around the floor of the boat.
Now where's that tackle box???

[Poodroo]

Poodroo,

You are so right about the material loss being the lesser problem, but the loss of the memories can never be replaced by any insurance company.

It wasnt on a fishing trip, but it was about fishing. I had scanned all my fishing pics from a lifetimes worth of slides and photos onto my computer, thinking they would be a permanent and easy reference point in the "new age of technology". Me being a technophobe at the time and thinking i was pretty bloody clever to do this, didnt even think (or know) about backing up to disc or making permanent records on portable hard drives (dont think they were readily available then anyway). Well....story is.....powere surge after blackout in a storm one day.....computer fried. All pics gone. Now i still have the slides and prints, but it took me six months to scan them all in the first place, and they are all packed in a storage unit somewhere, but im sure they have deteriorated even further.

Lesson for me is.....back up to disc, more than one copy....and not stored in same place. I now also download camera the day the pic is taken, and dont erase the camera card until all backups are completed...even then i still make a third backup just in case....guess i have become paranoid about it.

Cheers
Greg
That has to suck Greg. I have 3 hard drives now. The new computer uses an IDE 80 gig hard drive which only drives Windows. The second hard drive is a SATA 500 gig and the third is an 80 gig SATA so I now have 660 gig of hard drive space on this computer. I have always had at least two drives on my computers mainly to store photos, video footage etc. I have always done this just in case of hardware failures like I just experienced. I can then transfer the old drives into a new computer without losing the photos or whatever I didn't want to lose. The problem in this instance the photos never made it to the computer sadly. The only thing I can do now is get a new camera and take her out and catch an even bigger fish but this time don't lose the camera. Losing the camera is a mistake I hope I will only make once.


Guys sorry to hear about your data loss,

unfortunately its an all to common event. Just to give you all a heads up, there are lots of companies that will host a backup for you free of charge.

I have no affiliation with this company nor do I use them but, they offer 50gb of data storage for free, so for those of you with data and arent really sure of how to do regular backups or understand data recovery techniques then it may be of use to you.

Biggest problem most of you will have is finding where you store your information.

http://www.adrive.com/.


Regards
Honda

Thanks for the advice Honda. I am sure many people do exactly that. I don't have a need to store on places like that purely because as stated earlier I have more than one hard drive in my computer. I am glad that I do this because I didn't lose anything during the event of a motherboard failure.

Regards,

Poodroo