I’ve never owned a boat or even been on a boat. A friend of a friend has, though, and I heard through the grapevine that he may have had a boating accident once, I think.
If I recall, the story was that he lost a couple of Glocks (I think those are some sort of glow-in-the-dark clocks or something), a Canik (a foreign can opener contraption) and a couple of custom/bespoke SOTAs (not sure, maybe some sort of Swedish soda maker??).
Anyway, haven’t heard from my friend or his friend in decades.
I had 18 boats for awhile, totaling 256’ in length. I tend to go a bit overboard in my pursuits. I was on the river during the week, and on the ocean weekends and vacations.
A friend of mine built barges at a shipyard in RI. Ocean going, 3-600’ long. He fell off one with his Glock, took a shower and both were good to go.
Seriously. We played “army” as kids. Most violent we ever got was with the steel cork guns we had. It got tiresome hearing “I shot you” " no, you missed" with the sticks we used, and when those steel cork guns came out, we found that by removing the cork and jamming the muzzle into the ground, you could blast your “enemy” in the face with dirt, and judge by the shriek or cursing whether it was a hit or not. Trench warfare, anyone?
Generally, we’d all end up at the frog-pond anyways, just messing around.