Living Aboard: Essential Kit

[Stingo]

I've never discovered the pleasure of sitting in a hot and sweaty laundromat for several hours a week, so an adequate watermaker, washing machine and the 'lectrickery to run it all while sir sits in the shaded cockpit sipping his wine.

 

[Stingo]

What items are on your essential cruising kit list?

 

[grumpygit]

What items are on your essential cruising kit list?

I think you've just about shown the scenario "so an adequate watermaker, washing machine and the 'lectrickery to run it all while sir sits in the shaded cockpit sipping his wine. "
? ?

 

[Graham376]

What items are on your essential cruising kit list?

Sun shade, booze and galley slave

 

[harvey38]

Ice maker

 

[Kelpie]

I've never discovered the pleasure of sitting in a hot and sweaty laundromat for several hours a week, so an adequate watermaker, washing machine and the 'lectrickery to run it all while sir sits in the shaded cockpit sipping his wine.

You're doing it wrong. Put laundry on, leave empty bag in case you're not back when it finishes, go to shops. It's called multi tasking my dear

 

[GHA]

You're doing it wrong. Put laundry on, leave empty bag in case you're not back when it finishes, go to shops. It's called multi tasking my dear

Don't forget to use the free wifi to catch up while you're there ?

 

[GHA]

I've never discovered the pleasure of sitting in a hot and sweaty laundromat for several hours a week, so an adequate watermaker, washing machine and the 'lectrickery to run it all while sir sits in the shaded cockpit sipping his wine.

+ very good tool kit & spares for when it all breaks, which is the only think everything on a cruising boat wants to do......?

 

[capnsensible]

The correct change for the laundry machines.
No Germans hogging them.

Or if that fails, service wash laundry with nearby bar. My preferred option.

 

[Clancy Moped]

A sense of humour. At night, if something goes wrong, ask yourself did it sound expensive? If yes, get up have a look. If no, go back to sleep.

 

[Kelpie]

A decent head torch.

 

[Star-Lord]

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[john_morris_uk]

Essential is a moveable feast.
Highly desirable might be easier to define.
After all, water, food and shelter are essential but don’t guarantee a comfortable life.

I’ll put watermaker as highly desirable. Fridge and freezer also.

After that, I’m not so sure

 

[Star-Lord]

Air con. My general rule of thumb is if the marina office has air con then so do you. It is all very well saying that you will be at anchor all summer so you do not need air con (I have no geny so only use air con on shore power) but Murphy Will have you in a stinking hot marina! Maybe not the first year but it will happen. Like another lockdown for example. Or something breaks etc. And marina prices are always more in the summer so if you are going to pay to stay in a furnace - the air con will sweeten the pill.

 

[GHA]

Essential is a moveable feast.
Highly desirable might be easier to define.
After all, water, food and shelter are essential but don’t guarantee a comfortable life.

I’ll put watermaker as highly desirable. Fridge and freezer also.

After that, I’m not so sure

On a cruising boat I'd put being able to weld in the galley on the hook above those, well maybe not the fridge. ??

S'pose it's very dependent on how far off the beaten track you think you might end up. The boat comes first, then you get to choose your luxuries ?

 

[Kukri]

Buy the best tools you can afford, and take time getting to know your way round the mechanical and electrical bits before they go wrong.

 

[Blueboatman]

Okaaaay
Bit left field for most but here goes :

A Bulletproof hull, rig and sails and windvane.
And a boat that is a pleasure-nay, an absolute joy- to sail in lots of varied and changing conditions .

Bung in a cool box , a couple of buckets and an interior that could be literally hosed out without trouble..

Alright , a battery and a masthead light and a solar panel , call it ‘level2’ upgrades ?
… and there’s a jolly good start to pretty good cruising ..
Lugging white goods around isn’t for me but all these things are nice and convenient to own during the early years of their lifespan anyway …

 

[Kukri]

Do not stow your lockers like the proverbial midshipman’s chest of the age of sail, with “everything on top and nothing to hand”.

 

[Wansworth]

Make sure your mainsail and headsails run up and down easily,….sorry 35 years out of date?

 

[Kukri]

Make sure your mainsail and headsails run up and down easily,….sorry 35 years out of date?

One of the things that I really really like about “Kukri” is the low friction mainsail track.