Wave slave, I didn't suggest you pour the boiling water on your foot. Bring a bucket of cool water up to the hottest water you can stand, probably 40 -50 degrees.
Trust me ( and others) it works.
Local anaesthetic is virtually useless.
Peter I'm sure they realise not to put your foot in boiling water!
But hot water is indeed the recommended method and one I have used, three times now. Pesky buggers don't like being gidgeed! lol!
Having been stung by five of these little feckers (proving windsurfers aren't gay, just stupid) the best treatment I've found apart from anesthetic is heat packs.
Wheat filled heat packs (microwaveable) are good for around the house and a lot easier to move around and control the temperature than a bucket of scolding water (which is dangerous).
Self adhesive air activated heat packs (small ones) can bet stuck to foot and worn inside a shoe the next day for work as the pain hangs around generally for 24hrs. These heat packs can be picked up from chemists, always worthwhile keeping a few in the car if you sail in cobbler prone areas.
The buckets of hot water are just too sketchy safety wise and a pain in the freckle for actually doing anything.
Select to expand quoteKBwhokbs said..
Wave slave, I didn't suggest you pour the boiling water on your foot. Bring a bucket of cool water up to the hottest water you can stand, probably 40 -50 degrees.
Trust me ( and others) it works.
Local anaesthetic is virtually useless.
I haven't been stung by a cobbler before (luckily) but I've read a few different books that recommend the hot water treatment. Not boiling, just as hot as you can bare. One of my mates got stung and I recommended this to him and he said it worked.
The venom reacts differently with everyone though, so you have to be careful. I've spoken to some of the commerical cobbler fishers down in Denmark, and they reckon they carry epipens with them. One bloke told me when he gets stung he injects himself, then goes off to hospital. These guys aren't pussys, and deal with hundreds of the bloody cobbler every day, so it must be bloody painful. That being sad, they usually get stung in the hands, and some of the fish they catch are almost a metre long.
Select to expand quoteoceanfire said...
[br]I hit Melville for the first time yesterday and the thing that struck me was the amount of weed in the water.
Launching and landing I kept expecting to stand on a cobbler, or possibly something else.
Just wanted to ask if anyone has stepped on a cobbler at Melville or any other stingy things in all that weed?
I didn't look too hard, but I didn't see anyone wearing water footwear and there were a lot of people (learners under instruction etc) walking around in the weed.
What's the risk?
Don't know bout any cobblers. But several times I've had crabs hanging of my feet... They always pince you there. Not a big deal though but unpleasant nonetheless...
Select to expand quoteBlackbeard said...
Yep for sting rays and cobblers what they said plus this......
That's a seedy looking coffee table Blackbeard 
Looks like a few different pain remedies were sampled
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That's a seedy looking coffee table Blackbeard Looks like a few different pain remedies were sampled ...
Hmm, thats a rather brown coke bottle, especially at the top. Whats that lid just below his foot with the hole in it. Im sure its a fantastic cobbler remedy. Im sure you use a bucket for that one, but not for your foot.
Hi guys, this my first post ever on seabreeze but couldn't resist after reading about the bloody cobbler fish. As an old windsurfer and now kiter, twenty years ago I stood on a cobbler at Point Moore, Geraldton. After a hospital visit for a needle and lots of beer and dirty coke bottle action the only thing that stopped the pain was hot water as hot as you can stand it for about 10 hours until I was so smashed I passed out. This was more pain than nearly ripping my knew cap off on a mountain bike accident. So avoid the cobbler!
Nah that's my sting ray remedy, I call it the double bucket o water beer , bourbon and durry combo, cures most things. Back on the water the next day so something worked ;-) Cobblers are that x 2 I hear!
stood on one around safety bay about 3 yrs ago - hurt like F%^k for about 3 hours - cut one of my toes & I had no idea why the pain was so bad...- had no idea about the hot water remedy until afterwards - hardest thing was self landing & packing up in 25kts by myself with no help.....booties wont help you as the spike will pierce them easily. Try shuffling through weed if your still worried.....
