Recommendations for Tool Kit

[extravert]

Only thing not mentioned so far which is useful for doing sail repairs and seizing is a sailmaker's palm. It's very difficult to sew through the edges and corners of sails where they are thick without one. (It's still not easy with one.)

<hr width=100% size=1>One day, I want to be a real sailor. In the mean time I'll just keep trying.

 

[tcm]

ok, i lied , i meant 25 gallons. The clingfilm was last used to wrap up linen things over winter and exclude damp. Oh and a compressor as well, oh and a small generator.





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[Brian_B]

Best tool on a boat is a kettle. Use it to make a pot of tea.
Sit down with a cuppa and think about the job, before you start.

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[tcm]

ah yes indeed. trouble is, my kettle may not be right for the job. So i think i will be best fro me to first nip off to the chandlers to see what they have in the way of kettles...

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[boatless]

Grinding wheel for your drill bits.

Oilstone for chisels and planes.

Corkscrews, several.

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[Brian_B]

tcm,I'm not sure you're taking this seriously!
But while you are checking out the kettles can you pick up one of those 'marine' toasters?

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[Laurin]

We just went down the local " everythings a pound" shop and bought tool bag + lots of tools... working on the theory that things get attacked easily in wet salty environment. Obviously supplemented this with spare tools from home and a 12V drill. Probably not the best plan if you are going on a really long trip but perfectly ok for pottering around the East Coast.

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[Nauti Fox]

Aha you've all missed Plus Gas,probably the best rusty nut remover in the world.
Bugger its a new boat! Still worth keeping on board though.
Al

<hr width=100% size=1>No dear,the water goes in the other one.

 

[AndrewB]

Advice I once got was:

If it doesn't move and it should ---- WD40.
If it moves and it shouldn't ----- Duck Tape.

Think I'd add a Mole Wrench and a Leatherman though, it's surprising how much can be tackled with just those.

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[Brian_B]

and of course if you've got a file you also need this

http://www.theboatshop.com/video/corncob.mov

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[Guest]

Agree ..... I have lost GOOD tools to the environment, oiled / greased, waxed paper covered etc. etc.

So now I go local supermarket and buy a 'general purpose' multi tool set ...... present one is about to be replaced - 6 yrs old and starting to rust on some tools - so that will be relegated to garden duty now and a new multi-tool set from s/market placed on board.

Note - I always go for ones that have the electrical stripper / crimp bits as well.


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[Johnnygil]

Jon

Just have loads of money

J

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[ongolo]

Is it actually duck tape? I thought it is duct tape, that is what we call it here wrongly maybe.

I have a lot more tools, but I am maybe a little over board.

However a good rigging knife and a marlinspike and crowbars, punching tools for eylets and all sorts of eyelets to go with it. Serving board and serving mallets. And a pauch to carry tools while I am working with them.

Sewing machine (actually 4 on board but surely one would do)

I have an idiot book where all spares and numbers can be identified, such as when a bearing goes bad, I dont have to strip it and then find out what it is, I can look in the book to order one before hand.

I have a Nickel wire that is used in the heating elements for pottery kilns. Thsi wire does not break no matter how often you bend it to and fro, it is better than 316 MIG wire. Monel wire here we can only dream of. Never seen any.

regards ongolo


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[AndrewB]

Sewing machine.

Do you really have four? I want one but can't find anything sufficiently compact yet strong enough for sailcloth. What's your experience?

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[powerskipper]

\"safety equipment and tools sink boat\"

Has anyone else noticed that the lists to me seem to be in preportion to the size of boat, that the poster has./forums/images/icons/wink.gif Is this to do with the reasoning that as it is bigger it will have more things to go wrong!!!!
I just had a thought /forums/images/icons/cool.gifit mite seem to me only but if you were to put all this on a small boat, there mite be no storage space left on the boat and it mite sink either on its moorings or as the first large wave hits and it all crash though the hull.
Can see the headline,
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[Fill]

Just carry a few bottles.

Judging by the responses scuttlebutters carry round more tools and kit they they can ever use and will be delighted to loan you a left handed floggle-toggle or whatever in exchange for a drink or two. Play your cards right and they might even do the repair for you.

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[Ohdrat]

Re: Duck or Duct

I call it gaffer tape.. after the gaffers (lectricians).

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[Novice]

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Jon

Just have loads of money

J

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Blimey you're telling me. As pvb mentioned, I think my boat is too small for the number of tools I've got to carry! Here's what I've got so far:-

A pair of boltcutters £5 from the pound shop (eh?)
A set of metric combination spanners from Halfords £14.99 (7 - 19mm)
A little tool set from B&Q, comprising long nose and bull nose pliers, tape measure, Stanley type knife, allen keys, ratchet screwdriver thing with bit and sockets - given to me as a Christmas present from 16 year old son, so this has to stay intact and on show.
A junior hacksaw and some spare blades.
One of those oil filter tools, with the rubber strap (steady now)
Crimping tool for electrical connectors
Digital multimeter
12V or gas soldering iron (have both from model aeroplane flying)
1/4 drive socket set

To buy:-
Screwdrivers + and -
Hammer (I liked this suggestion - everyone seems to have one)
Pump pliers
Adjustable wrench (shifting spanner to those in the trade)
Electricians screwdriver
Chisel

In addition, I'll add "consumables" like Duck, Duct, Gaffer, Elephant tape (should I have a roll of each?), cable ties, disposable gloves etc

I'll then see how it goes, and add the lathe and CNC milling machine as needed. Now I need to put another post on the board...

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[MainlySteam]

Re: "safety equipment and tools sink boat"

Hi PowerfulskipperJulieone

We have a 41 foot sailboat so maybe around 1/4 to 1/3 the volume of TCM's Rodriguez machine.

I have to concede that we carry about 85-90% of the items TCM has in his list, the main differences being associated with the difference in engines meaning that we carry far less engine fluids and fluid containers. Just looking at a few examples of other differences we do not have a vice (nor workbench), the Dremel is shared between the boat and home but always goes away with us, metric and AF sockets up to around 1-3/4" (not 300 of them like TCM) and spanners the same, and we do not carry much plastic tube. On the other hand there are probably a few things we carry which are not on TCM's list such as oil filter removal tool and esoteric things such as a solder sucker which come to mind.

It all seems to fit in without any intrusion and it pays off when we go to the yard for work not doing myself. They just come down and look at the work and say "Would like this that and the other tool", I get them out and I act as "apprentice".

Clearly, for a much smaller boat again TCM's list would not always be appropriate, but there again if its cruising range or endurance is long then perhaps not (we disappear for weeks at a time and that influences what we carry).

Very, very interesting thread too - can anyone enlighten me as to what Sailorman's metric adjustable spanner is?

John

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[duncan]

Re: \"safety equipment and tools sink boat\"

John - it is of course a test to see if anyone is reading the posts item by item. You passed!

The interesting thing here is the difference between the do it all with gear on the boat approach and the tool kit to fix/sort the usual supplemented with more specialist tools when required. I am shamelessly in the former camp - and can understand why tcm would be in the other given distance and boat size!

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