Most pointless item onboard?

[rbcoomer]

DAKA's collateral damage thread got me thinking about what I've piled into the boat and more importantly if I'll ever need some of it! My friend's comment on my maiden trip last year was something along the lines of 'crikey how long are you going for - is there anywhere left to sit?'

So guy's and girl's, what do you carry that you've never needed and probably never will? Or perhaps the most bizarre item you carry that have needed? (like bolt croppers! ) Is your boat an extension of your garage/attic?

I guess we should exclude 'safety items', but I've already been told a number of times that my paddles are a waste of time as I'd never be able to row a 14' boat to shore with a pair of 3' paddles... (They seemed a good idea at the time )

 

[Cheekybrat]

most pointless item on board

SWMBO thinks I am the most poinless item on board
Nick

 

[sarabande]

I have some terminally blunted drill bits from the late 1970s.....

 

[landlockedpirate]

I guess we should exclude 'safety items', but I've already been told a number of times that my paddles are a waste of time as I'd never be able to row a 14' boat to shore with a pair of 3' paddles... (They seemed a good idea at the time )

I don't know, a pair of paddles on a boat your size can be very useful. A few of us once paddled a Fletcher a couple of miles when we ran out of petrol as drunk teenagers.

Now this really has to be the most useless thing on a boat

 

[rbcoomer]

I don't know, a pair of paddles on a boat your size can be very useful. A few of us once paddled a Fletcher a couple of miles when we ran out of petrol as drunk teenagers.

Now this really has to be the most useless thing on a boat

I'd love to know why that was there! Perhaps to lug coal for the central heating...

 

[thejonesey]

Sun tan lotion.. never seem to need it when I go down to the boat!

 

[Firefly625]

folding bike....

 

[rbcoomer]

folding bike....

Actually that may explain the wheelbarrow - transport back from pub!

 

[Searush]

The Wasp log with no cable. They cost forty bloody quid to replace & I don't really care how fast or how far I have travelled thro the water.

Charts for places I know like the back of my hand. Charts for places I will never visit again.

Fishing rods & lures.

A fluxgate compass I never got round to fitting.

A 38 year old green dry powder fire extinguisher - might do to repel boarders, if I hit them with it.

 

[Andydent2000]

A washing machine on mine. Big domestic monster from the 80's. It drains the water tank and you have to fight it to get your socks back.

 

[Elessar]

DAKA's collateral damage thread got me thinking about what I've piled into the boat and more importantly if I'll ever need some of it! My friend's comment on my maiden trip last year was something along the lines of 'crikey how long are you going for - is there anywhere left to sit?'

So guy's and girl's, what do you carry that you've never needed and probably never will? Or perhaps the most bizarre item you carry that have needed? (like bolt croppers! ) Is your boat an extension of your garage/attic?

I guess we should exclude 'safety items', but I've already been told a number of times that my paddles are a waste of time as I'd never be able to row 14' boat to shore with a pair of 3' paddles... (They seemed a good idea at the time )

Definitely one of the 390 bottles and tubes of "essential" ****e the admiral keeps in her dressing table.
As a very average bloke I can only name 8 of them so I guess it will be one on the mysterious 382.

 

[Firefly625]

Actually that may explain the wheelbarrow - transport back from pub!

...but then surely it would have been a shopping trolley?

 

[hlb]

A continental plug.

Some French frances.

A rusty pair of pliers and spanners that dont fit anything.

 

[cem]

a rusty spark plug left by the previous owner

fishing rod as i am reliable informed there are no fish left off the south coast of England

 

[Wiggo]

Well, I did have a clear out a few years ago and even I could not work out why I had a full size carpenter's handsaw and a set of wood chisels (rusty and blunt) on a GRP boat.

Most useless item ever must be the Seasearcher magnet on a rope. So strong it has to live in the locker on the bathing platform to avoid screwing up the compasses, but the only thing it ever picked up was the steel pile of the pontoon in Weymouth Marina while trying to recover a dropped spanner (that turned out to be non-magnetic anyway).

 

[Poignard]

Probably the flat iron I used to carry for a while. The kind you see in antique shops that you heat up on a gas ring.

The Old Guvnor steadfastly refused to iron my trousers and shirts with it but it was quite useful as an anvil on one occasion.

 

[CX54WEK]

The TV

We never watch it yet we take it everywhere we go and even wrap it up to make sure it doesnt get damaged at sea.

 

[TopDonkey]

I've got a colour laser printer on my boat, ive used it once and its just sat here taking up space that i could use for some other item that i dont really need but think will be handy to have !

 

[Xskipper]

The Wasp log with no cable. They cost forty bloody quid to replace & I don't really care how fast or how far I have travelled thro the water.

Charts for places I know like the back of my hand. Charts for places I will never visit again.

Fishing rods & lures.

A fluxgate compass I never got round to fitting.

A 38 year old green dry powder fire extinguisher - might do to repel boarders, if I hit them with it.

Searush,

If you have no use for the fluxgate depending on model I could take it off your hands...

I have a Nasa target and the sensor is US (I think), but maybe it is one of those things you will fit manana....

 

[Dave99]

Sun tan lotion.. never seem to need it when I go down to the boat!

LOL maybe its time to move the boat to somewhere sunny