Essential tools

[xyachtdave]

I wouldn't bother with WD40. ACF50 is far superior, and leaves a corrosion-resistant and lubricating film behind.


I'm curious - what's the 24mm socket for? All I can think of is the prop nut and, If I need to get involved with that, I'd say my delivery trip is over.

When sailing on other people's boats, I always carried a good multi-tool, plus another cheapo that had a small crescent wrench. I earned a good few brownie points with them fixing stuff.

The 24mm nut removes both the steering wheel on our boat and the sail-drive prop nut. I was eluding to not needing a further 1/2 drive socket set if you get a 3/8 24 mm which sadly isn't in 3/8 drive sets, so you've got everything you need on the boat.

But I take your point about the prop nut on a delivery!

 

[Poignard]

Thank you for this list and I want to ask you explicitly to post this Rigging and Sailmaker list.
For me it is amazing how many tools one can carry and then you see somebody elses toolbox or -list and there is something you do not have yet.
I am not saying that one must have these items on the boat - obviously dependent on the boat - but the idea is what couts.
So if youreally do not want to trigger some minimalistic comments: please send it to me as private message.
Thanks.

Here uou are:

Rigging & Sail Repair

Tools

30m Tape rule

Bolt croppers

Deck pliers

Fid

Hog ring pliers

Knife

Palm

Pop rivet gun

Rig tension gauge

Rope cutting/sealing gun

Sail hook

Sail needles for Speedy Stitcher

Sail needles, ordinary

Seam ripper

Selma splicing fids

Shackle key

Shackles, D

Shackles, bow

Shackles, snap

Shackles, twisted

Speedy Stitcher

Thread snips

Wire twisting pliers



Consumables

ACF-50 spray

Beeswax

Blocks, assorted

Canvas off-cuts

Chalk

Duralac paste

Eyelet kit

Felt marker pen

Hog rings

Pop rivets, assorted

Rings for tie-downs

Sail cloth offcuts

Sail repair tape

Sail threads

Shock cord

Self-amalgamating tape

Seizing wire

Soapstone pencil

Split pins

Track slides

Webbing

Whipping twines

Winch grease

 

[colind3782]

I thought I had every tool I could possibly need but now I'm feeling decidedly under-tooled!

 

[RivalRedwing]

one of those small power packs for jump starting a battery (the engine battery in particular)

 

[Fr J Hackett]

Am I unusual in over 40 years of sailing on my own and others boats that I have never had a flat engine battery?

 

[DangerousPirate]

Here uou are:

Rigging & Sail Repair

Tools

30m Tape rule

Bolt croppers

Deck pliers

Fid

Hog ring pliers

Knife

Palm

Pop rivet gun

Rope cutting/sealing gun

Sail hook

Sail needles for Speedy Stitcher

Sail needles, ordinary

Seam ripper

Selma splicing fids

Shackle key

Shackles, D

Shackles, bow

Shackles, snap

Shackles, twisted

Speedy Stitcher

Thread snips

Wire twisting pliers



Consumables

ACF-50 spray

Beeswax

Blocks, assorted

Canvas off-cuts

Chalk

Duralac paste

Eyelet kit

Felt marker pen

Hog rings

Pop rivets, assorted

Rings for tie-downs

Sail cloth offcuts

Sail repair tape

Sail threads

Shock cord

Self-amalgamating tape

Seizing wire

Soapstone pencil

Split pins

Track slides

Webbing

Whipping twines

Winch grease

Goddamn. Needs a whjole frigging garage full of tools for the "essentials".

Honestly I think it's a bit over the top. This is probably all you want on your boat, but that isn't the barebones of a necessary minimum

 

[DangerousPirate]

Am I unusual in over 40 years of sailing on my own and others boats that I have never had a flat engine battery?

Yes. You'll encounter a flat battery when you pick up boats that sat in boatyards and marinas quite regularly.

 

[colind3782]

one of those small power packs for jump starting a battery (the engine battery in particular)

Yep. I have three. One on the boat and one in each car.

 

[xyachtdave]

Yep. I have three. One on the boat and one in each car.

Where’s the other one?

 

[colind3782]

Where’s the other one?

I haven't bought it yet but I'll get right on it in the morning!

 

[Wansworth]

I thought I had every tool I could possibly need but now I'm feeling decidedly under-tooled!

Tool inferiority syndrome…..no cure!

 

[Poignard]

Goddamn. Needs a whjole frigging garage full of tools for the "essentials".

Honestly I think it's a bit over the top. This is probably all you want on your boat, but that isn't the barebones of a necessary minimum

It doesn't matter very much to me what you think. I was answering the OP, not you.

But if you look at my first post in this thread (#21) you will see that I wrote :

" I should point out that, latterly, I kept my boat in France (300 miles from home) and it would have been galling to have had to buy something in France that I already had at home."

 

[servus]

Here uou are:

Rigging & Sail Repair

Tools

30m Tape rule

Bolt croppers

Deck pliers

Fid

Hog ring pliers

Knife

Palm

Pop rivet gun

Rope cutting/sealing gun

Sail hook

Sail needles for Speedy Stitcher

Sail needles, ordinary

Seam ripper

Selma splicing fids

Shackle key

Shackles, D

Shackles, bow

Shackles, snap

Shackles, twisted

Speedy Stitcher

Thread snips

Wire twisting pliers



Consumables

ACF-50 spray

Beeswax

Blocks, assorted

Canvas off-cuts

Chalk

Duralac paste

Eyelet kit

Felt marker pen

Hog rings

Pop rivets, assorted

Rings for tie-downs

Sail cloth offcuts

Sail repair tape

Sail threads

Shock cord

Self-amalgamating tape

Seizing wire

Soapstone pencil

Split pins

Track slides

Webbing

Whipping twines

Winch grease

Thank you so much!
Most of the things I already have (some words I will have to look up in the technical dictionary) but is is really interesting what other people come up with after years of expperience. I thank you honestly.

Of course spares and such are actually on board your boat or your safari vehicle or similar to prevent the relevant part to fail. One carries them to help other guys who then really admire your planning ... . But sometimes these inexplicable spiritual forces do not work and then, then you have the right tools, parts, material to fix the whatnot that broke.
This all depends a bit on how isolated the places you aregoing. A classical marina-hopper will probably just have to take a fat cheque-book.

cheers, g.

 

[Plum]

Am I unusual in over 40 years of sailing on my own and others boats that I have never had a flat engine battery?

Me neither

 

[penberth3]

I wouldn't bother with WD40. ACF50 is far superior, and leaves a corrosion-resistant and lubricating film behind.


I'm curious - what's the 24mm socket for? All I can think of is the prop nut and, If I need to get involved with that, I'd say my delivery trip is over....

The kit is for a one-off delivery voyage. I wouldn't argue about the merits of various fluids, they'll all do the same job. FWIW I'd take oil e.g. 3 in 1 in a spray can.

24mm is a standard size and not uncommon, but above 19mm I'd rely on a 10" (sorry, 250mm!) adjustable.

 

[zoidberg]

Two rolls of gaffer tape ( I'd never find the first one ) and a bigger hammer.

Oh, and kidding apart - an adjustable that could be used to disconnect a gas regulator that was so corroded and leaky that I removed it completely and chucked it overboard.

 

[Mister E]

On the south coast Sea Start membership.

 

[Stemar]

On the south coast Sea Start membership.

Absolutely. A friend had a mobo to deliver last weekend. One engine died off Chichester, the second off St Cats. He ended up being towed in by the lifeboat.

 

[fredrussell]

A corkscrew.

Also, aspirin.

 

[Stemar]

Let's face it, even with Poignard's full lists, Sod's law of the sea ensures that you won't have the thing you need.