Essential Cruising Equipment

[Dominic]

After much thought,

The one essential piece of cruising equipment that I took on my travels was a Dinner Jacket (white when south of Biscay). I needed it, despite being considered the scriuffiest boat and family ever seen in the Caribbean or Eastern USA.

(I met a couple from NZ who had been cruising through Tonga and got invited to the King´s Birthday Party. Flying over the DJ wiped out 4 months of their cruising budget.)

What is your essential piece of kit, apart from the bottle of Malt.

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[Gunfleet]

pressure cooker

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[webcraft]

Headtorch

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[Gunfleet]

That's no bloody good - as soon as I put the head torch on the crew falls about the boat laughing!

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[jac]

A boat

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[Guest]

Watertight container for the passports

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[Twister_Ken]

Cream for nappy rash. nm

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[Peppermint]

Re: Uffa Fox

Was looking at the smallest, fastest sailing he could sail the Solent in. He decided on the International Canoe. An interesting choice but then he was an exceptional sailor. His main criteria was having somewhere to put his Blazer, Flannels and Yacht Club Tie. So that a chap can excercise his visiting rights to other clubs.

I wouldn't be without my Dubarry sailing boots. You'd never go back to wellies once you've tried them.

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[Little_Russel]

Re: Uffa Fox

Do you wear them outside your trousers even when miles from the boat?

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[chriscallender]

Electric fan heater and cable to hook up to shore power!

Chris

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[Gordonmc]

Jar of Madras curry paste. Makes anything edible.

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[sailbadthesinner]

Re: easy

a woman


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[burgundyben]

sunglasses, make the day so much more comfortable.

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[Peppermint]

Re:I flew to Norway in them

now you wouldn't want to do that in rubber wellies. They wouldn't let you in.

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[Dominic]

Hell no. One of the Eberspacher things that work at sea.

Or a very long cable for your option.

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[Mirelle]

DJ non-essential

Yachtsmen are surely allowed to wear a reefer jacket and Club instead!

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[Sybarite]

Autopilot. Makes single handing so much easier.

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[claymore]

The laptop navigation package, linked via its NMEA cable to the GPS and that in turn linked to the autopilot. That way, if its really unpleasant the boat can go on its own and I can meet it as I climb off the Calmac ferry.
If thats not allowed then a pan big enough to host the largest of cauliflowers.

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[milltech]

Re: easy

..........but not the one you left at home

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