Sage advice from Tom Cunliffe

[dom]

Quote from Yachting Monthly introducing TC's Leaving Boat Checklist!

"From flushing the heads to taking the ensign down, his list will ensure that you never go home without forgetting something."

Read more at http://www.yachtingmonthly.com/plus...leave-your-boat-checklist#yKfOt5V9d4fRHdQG.99

 

[Storyline]

Not sure about putting loo cleaner down the heads. I prefer a strong Fairy solution

 

[Talulah]

Some items missing off the list.
Complete Paperwork. (Log/Maintenance Book etc) could be one.
Any others?

 

[doris]

Re. Loos. Flush with fresh water then tip vinegar into the bowl and add enough fresh water to get up to the anti siphon valve then leave it.

 

[Kukri]

Mine was "close the exhaust seacock and hang the keys on it".

 

[mjcoon]

... you never go home without forgetting something."

Tricky double negatives!

Real meaning easier to see with slight re-wording: "Never go home without having forgotten something"?

Mike.

 

[Vallich]

My boat's on a swing mooring all year so I do most of the things Mr. C suggests,every time I leave the boat for a week or so including closing the fuel cock and raw-water inlet cock but I always leave my sea cocks open to relieve the cockpit drains if it rains - that's a load of cocks...

 

[Buck Turgidson]

Tricky double negatives!

Real meaning easier to see with slight re-wording: "Never go home without having forgotten something"?

Mike.

Still doesn't work.
How about " Never go home having forgotten something" ?

 

[Seajet]

When I visited my boat the other day - first time in a couple of months due to illness - I found the cockpit drains blocked by fallen leaves and water in the bilges; not drastic as she's ashore but I've known boats sunk by leaves - or ice - in the drains...

 

[Salty John]

Tricky double negatives!

Real meaning easier to see with slight re-wording: "Never go home without having forgotten something"?

Mike.

Nope, same meaning. "...never go home having forgotten something" is what was meant, I suspect.

 

[Achillesheel]

"Remove unneccessary clutter"?

I'd need to make several dinghy trips.......

 

[Ex-SolentBoy]

Here's my list. Logical order. Start on deck, then in the cockpit whilst the good lady is packing the food away. Then I go below, boot everyone out into the cockpit and work from the ends of the boat towards the exit.

 

[JumbleDuck]

How about "Check mooring lines"?

 

[Angele]

How about "Check mooring lines"?

I think that is covered by the entry in the second column:

Double-check mooring strop or docklines

That list is hardly rocket science. Can't imagine many people (apart from the newest of newbies) would learn much from it.

 

[JumbleDuck]

I think that is covered by the entry in the second column

I shall add "Improve reading skills" to mine.

 

[Deleted member 36384]

It's not much of a check list. The day I "should" have one of these is the day I need to give up sailing.

 

[Angele]

I shall add "Improve reading skills" to mine.

 

[Woodlouse]

Does old Tom get paid by YM for stating the bleeding obvious?

 

[vyv_cox]

When I visited my boat the other day - first time in a couple of months due to illness - I found the cockpit drains blocked by fallen leaves and water in the bilges; not drastic as she's ashore but I've known boats sunk by leaves - or ice - in the drains...

A famous problem at Port Dinorwic, which is surrounded by trees. At the end of a season many years ago we left our first boat there for a week before hauling out. Even in that short time the drains had blocked, the cockpit filled with rainwater and overflowed into the saloon, fortunately only to about two inches which had not reached anything critical.

 

[Woodlouse]

A famous problem at Port Dinorwic, which is surrounded by trees. At the end of a season many years ago we left our first boat there for a week before hauling out. Even in that short time the drains had blocked, the cockpit filled with rainwater and overflowed into the saloon, fortunately only to about two inches which had not reached anything critical.

A lesson in the value of cockpit covers I think.