"must have" checklists

[DaiB]

\"must have\" checklists

May PBO has 3 "must have checklists" are these for real or was it a late april fool thing??
Wonder how many people are still wandering around the house looking for the "etc" before leaving home!!!!


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[Peppermint]

Re:First item on my checklist say\'s

"find those bloody checklists"

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[Magic_Sailor]

Re: \"must have\" checklists

I must say that I found it difficult to contemplate a more useless item.

Magic

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[Ohdrat]

Re: \"must have\" checklists

How about "things to Leave behind" checklist?

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[ianwright]

Re: \"must have\" checklists

So what should be on a check list?
I've never used 'em being more concerned with my "when I can afford it" list.
40-50 years ago it would have read, "A boat, any boat, with no more leaks than I can cope with"

IanW.

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[Rob_Webb]

Re: \"must have\" checklists

I'd certainly never get off the mooring if I conducted each check as stated - when flying, even my 'Critical Pre-take off Checklist' is shorter!!!

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[snooks]

Leaving checklist?

How about a leaving checklist on the back of your washboards along the lines of:

Car Keys?
House Keys?
Mobile?

Many times I've had to row back to the boat for my blooming cars keys!...and a few times I've left the house keys onboard after driving home.

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[Roberto]

you must all be very young then

I could never remember the order and amount of things to be done when wintering the engine, checking safety equipment (flares, medicines, "etc"), provisioning, sensible engine maintenance

plus all the list of et caeteras!
I fear I will sadly end up with a list of lists

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[oldharry]

Re: Leaving checklist?

Simple answer to this irritiating problem Snooks: I keep a spare car and house key on the same ring as the boat keys.

That way you are totally snookered if you snap the cabin padlock to before checking you picked them up!

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[jimi]

Re: Leaving checklist?

Likewise for gas & electricity isolator..

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[Twister_Ken]

One good use for small children

>That way you are totally snookered if you snap the cabin padlock to before checking you picked them up! <

Did this once on a large and expensive yacht (not mine!)

A suitably motivated small child was inserted into a stern locker and by removing the inspection hatch between the steering gear and the aft cabin, managed to get into the boat, open the forehatch and allow access for a chastened temproray skipper (moi)

And all it cost was a ninety-niner ice cream.

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[snooks]

Re: Leaving checklist?

I never used to have a problem remembering the elecky and gas

Gas was in the cockpit on the way out, and I usually had the radio on...therefore if is was still playing music as I put the wasboard in I knew there was a problem

It's the keys that slide to the back of the chart table, thus hiding themselves, I had problems with

Saw a handy hint in one of the yachty mags, a little red tab that you fold out of your gas locker if the gas is on, when you switch the gas off you tuck it away again

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[John7]

Re: Leaving checklist?

After locking us out I found an easy prevention, snap the padlocks shut and you have to find the keys to use them.

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[tome]

Re: Leaving checklist?

Great idea - simple and effective!

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