In message , at 23:40:05 on
Wed, 15 Aug 2007, clot remarked:
When walking the gangplank onto the bow of the boat afterwards there
was a little local difficulty in balancing, resulting in three members
of the coterie in the cut together with mobiles and car keys which were
all "dunked".

Here's a funny thing, my son had an out-of-warranty cheapish mobile
phone which got wet in his shirt pocket on a very rainy day last summer.
And it never worked again. Early this summer we went canal boating and
he fell in, dunking a different (in fact older) cheap mobile phone.
After about two days it dried out and has worked ever since.
--
Roland Perry