KINGFISHER 9
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Never leave harbour without a Princess 72.
Noob seeks advice....
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prv
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Delivery trip of new-to-you second-hand boat?
Toolkit.
Fuel filters. If the boat has been sitting unused for an extended period, then lots of fuel filters.
Other engine consumables like impellers and belts.
Independent means of navigation and communication (handheld VHF, nowadays Navionics on a phone would do for nav) in case the boat's electrics crap out.
This all sounds a bit doom-and-gloom but the fact is that delivery trips are where stuff tends to go wrong. The boat's probably been sitting a while during the sale, you don't know it yet, suddenly you're setting out on a longish passage. Fuel filters blocking from crud that's been growing in the tank is the classic, plus (at least on sailyboats) losing all electrics seems to be surprisingly common, I'm not sure why.
I've done a handful of delivery trips, and I think the only one where something didn't go wrong was the boat that travelled on the back of a lorry
. Even the Zapcat I bought with a mate, a wheel fell off the trailer as he was towing it home...
Pete
Toolkit.
Fuel filters. If the boat has been sitting unused for an extended period, then lots of fuel filters.
Other engine consumables like impellers and belts.
Independent means of navigation and communication (handheld VHF, nowadays Navionics on a phone would do for nav) in case the boat's electrics crap out.
This all sounds a bit doom-and-gloom but the fact is that delivery trips are where stuff tends to go wrong. The boat's probably been sitting a while during the sale, you don't know it yet, suddenly you're setting out on a longish passage. Fuel filters blocking from crud that's been growing in the tank is the classic, plus (at least on sailyboats) losing all electrics seems to be surprisingly common, I'm not sure why.
I've done a handful of delivery trips, and I think the only one where something didn't go wrong was the boat that travelled on the back of a lorry
. Even the Zapcat I bought with a mate, a wheel fell off the trailer as he was towing it home...Pete
Prima
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There's been several mentions of alcoholic drinks - I would suggest that if you do plan to have a few drinks, it would be a good/sensible idea to take along bottled water, and probably a lot more than you think you might actually need