That ones a really long story....
But the shortest i can come up with would be:

100+ mile sailing race with a friend on a 30ft boat. We were in a double's
devision, so just the two of us.....
On delivery to the race start line, we had engine problems and had to turn
back. While turning back, i tried to fix the problems, which were in the
fuel water seperator. I kept cleaning the filter into a bucket, which ended
up in the sink. When the freak storm hit us and we were both really busy for
the next 20 or so hours, someone took the bucket and emptied it, the sink
strainer was in place, so we had a sink full of gasoline (And no motor, an
exhausted short handed crew, and too much sail STUCK up. We measured 37Knot
winds before the wind guage physically broke off).
How the ipod and my waterproof phone made it into the sink, probably old
habbit. On my boat, i always store them in the sink (which is always dry).
My phone suffered no damage, but smelled strongly of gasoline for weeks.

-Craig
'85GL turned WESTY
'76 Chrysler 26ft Sailboat

On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 9:23 PM, Don Hundt <dhundt@bendbroadband.com> wrote:

> What's worse than breaking your I-pod? A sink full of gasoline. What's
> worse than a sink full of gasoline? A sink full of gasoline on a sailboat!
> You're going to have to explain that one, Craig.
> Don
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "craig cowan" <phishman068@GMAIL.COM>
>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Friday, February 26, 2010 8:37 PM
>
> Subject: Re: Friday topic: MP3s in a vanagon?
>
>
> " I did finally manage to destroy mine (well it's fixable, but i'm going to
> just replace it) by letting it fall into a sink full of gasoline on a
> sailboat where it remained for several hours."
>
>