Spare parts. What do i need on-board?

[moretti]

What spare parts would you keep on-board your boat? I am in the final stages of purchasing my first boat and not really sure on what to buy. The boat is a Fairline Targa 30 with Volvo penta Kad32 engines. Any help would be appreciated.

 

[simonfraser]

Lol, buy two then you might have all the parts.
Had an in line cooling pipe valve break just now, how many keep a spare one of those ?
Or a bit of pipe as a temp replacement ?

 

[Beelzebub]

Case of duct tape

 

[gjgm]

What spare parts would you keep on-board your boat? I am in the final stages of purchasing my first boat and not really sure on what to buy. The boat is a Fairline Targa 30 with Volvo penta Kad32 engines. Any help would be appreciated.

Two approaches..parts that you can replace yourself, and parts where you are somewhere so remote that Volvo Penta parts are unobtainable but amazingly there is a brilliant VP trained mechanic to fix it for you anyway.
Scenario one, you still need the tools to fix it on board and sea conditions that you don't maim yourself....
Basically, a few usual annual service parts that you can use in the Spring service anyway and I would leave it at that.
Keypart list service parts by engine, I think, as a guide.
I carry some oil, p.steering fluid, impeller, belts..get you home sort of stuff...You can get anything couriered to whatever marina you end up in within 24 hrs so if you are going to load your boat up do so with with beer and wine ?

 

[volvopaul]

I will email you a list .

 

[TQA]

4 complete sets of fuel filters [ plus the knowledge to change them and bleed the system ]. IMHO this is essential.

Good to have
2 sets of fan belts.
1 x raw water impeller.
Self amalgamating tape and some short lengths of copper pipe to use as inserts.
Engine oil.

 

[moretti]

Thanks everyone, my son Is a mechanic so he is confident in doing the work, we just want to make sure we are covered as much as we can be with out filling the boat with parts. Thanks gjgm I will have a look at keypart now. Volvopaul that would be a great help, thank you.

 

[Momac]

I have a pair of kad32's .
I keep a full set of all fuel and oil filters , belts and impellers .
I have collection of impellers and some belts that have been removed at previous engine service but would be good enough to serve in an emergency.
In my 10th year with kad32's (not the same boat). I have never needed any of the above items other than at normal service and never needed to top up oil between annual services . But I have known others who have experienced nearly new belts to fail.

 

[Scubadoo]

As above, but depending where you are, consider joining SeaStart as they are excellent backup service not just for engine but fouling props, in my case fishing pot rope.

 

[petem]

4 complete sets of fuel filters [ plus the knowledge to change them and bleed the system ]. IMHO this is essential.

Good to have
2 sets of fan belts.
1 x raw water impeller.
Self amalgamating tape and some short lengths of copper pipe to use as inserts.
Engine oil.

Why 4 sets?

 

[prv]

Why 4 sets?

If you suddenly get a lot of crud in the fuel (either from a bad fill or because a rough trip shakes up stuff that was lying dormant in the bottom of the tank) then you can go through several filters in fairly quick succession. I've gone through three spares (one at a time) in two days before, and that was with a fair bit of sailing (ie, no engine) in between.

After getting back from that trip I finally bit the bullet and cut an access hole in the top of the tank to clean it out.

You guys without flappy bits need to be even more careful than I am

Pete

 

[TQA]

Why 4 sets?

Because the most likely cause of filters blocking is dirty fuel. Diesel bug, a dirty batch of fuel or dirt in the tank getting stirred up in some rough weather. That new set of filters you just fitted can get blocked too sometimes in just one hours running.

 

[CLB]

Why 4 sets?

I would imagine it's cos he doesn't have room for 6
You can never have too many fuel filters on board.

 

[penberth3]

I would imagine it's cos he doesn't have room for 6
You can never have too many fuel filters on board.

Exactly, and not an expensive item, and probably cheaper x10 or x12.

Apart from specific spare parts, I would (and have!) put together a box which includes the following and more, I assume you have the hand tools to utilise all this: nuts, bolts, washers - various sizes including repair/penny washers; self tapping screws, split pins, locking wire, jubilee clips - various sizes, small to massive, as many as you can fit in; short lengths of rubber/braided PVC pipe; super glue, quick-set araldite, hylomar; insulating tape, self-amalgamating tape, PTFE tape, gaffer tape, cable ties; some builder's band - galvanised perforated steel, useful for all sorts of temporary fixings.

Also a box of purely electrical stuff: lengths of cable in various sizes; crimp terminal plus crimping pliers; fuses; lamps; "chocolate block" connectors; more insulating tape; more cable ties.

Can hardly remember using any of this, but it'll happen one day!

Worst thing I ever had to deal with was dropping and losing a diesel bleed screw. Eventually found a non-critical bolt elsewhere with the same thread - fitted that with a bit of PTFE tape and off we went!