Spares?

[CodStewart]

As a future cruiser, what spares will I most likely need on the boat? I've done searches for this on the net but haven't come across anything written in big letters and simple for a thicko like me to understand.
And what tools have you found to be the most useful to have onboard?
Thanks.

 

[damo]

Have you seen Nigel Calder's Cruising Handbook? - it will probably have an answer for most of your questions. Together with his Boatowner's Mechanical and Electrical Manual I have found them an immensely useful resource.

Lists of spares and tools may be different for each boat and skipper, but one item I would suggest, but haven't seen mentioned elsewhere is a 12V cordless drill (or several cheap ones). Remove the battery and modify it so you can connect to the boats 12V supply(just cables attached to the terminals).

(And please tell me you aren't taking any Rod Stewart records)

 

[Ships_Cat]

On the tools bit there was a lengthy thread on this some time back where I offered to note those mentioned that others had found useful. Two sad forumites turned out to carry a large number of those on the list, me (who doesn't have the suggested Leatherman nor a Pella pump) and another who has some resemblance of an excuse as has a very big boat by forum standards (and I think it was 10 Pella pumps) /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif.

Anyways, here is the list, purely as an appetite wetter, an aide to memory for making a lesser list perhaps, not suggesting you really need them all - although, boats being boats, all will be needed some time or another /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

hammer
jemmy
calipers (vernier or not)
spanners - combination
1/4 drive socket set
screwdrivers - set
wide blunt chisel
mole grips
adjustable x 2 (B&S)
pliers - long nose
pliers
hacksaw and spare blades
multimeter
wirestripper/crimper
vaseline
coppercoat
mini file set
stanley knife
allen key set (metric and imperial)
tape measure
super glue
locktite
½ inch drive socket set
impact driver
greases
Drill - cordless
Drills, and socket and screw driver bits
Spanners - adjustable
open ended 10 13 14 17 21mm spanners
hammer
hacksaw
spark plug key
test lamp
rubber tube,jubilee clips, wire,
caulking frame
axe
wire cutters
stanley knife
set of screwdrivers
marker pen
monkey wrench
files
12mm threaded bar and big washers and nuts
hydraulic car jack
one of those things for getting stones out of horses hooves
23 screwdrivers
tape measure
another tape measure
Screwdrivers – set of small
large hammer
smaller hammer
really massive hammer
Boltcutters
bench vice
flat files
500 assorted cable ties
300 piece socket set
32-piece toroid set
torque wrench
240 v hot knife
2x 6.5 litre Pella pump
Paper towel
slide hammer for pulleys and impeller
spare impeller and lots of other spares
2 x sucky thing for lifting glass,panels and holding on the hull for hullwash
3 x sweeping/cleaning brushes
assorted paint brushes
2 x 240v 20 metre extension lead
large number of different shorepower plugs
wire connectors and stripping set
240 v drill and big box of drill bits, and another big box of assorted s/s screws
rip saw, tenon saw
Dremel
4 x funnels
basin wrench
Open/socket spanners for sizes 24mm-36 mm
3 x pliers, assorted
ptfe tape
assorted fuse tape
lots of duck tape
5x tins of wd 40
spray grease
assorted wetndry sandpaper
240 v glue gun and 50 glue sticks
super glue
assorted vice grips
6 x assorted chisels
nail punch
tap and die set
2 x stanley knives and spare blades
2x very massive screwdrivers
copper/plastic mallet
special scraper
breathing masks
4 x boiler suits
pack of 100 dispossal gloves
assorted rags
copper and s/s steel brush
silicon spray lubricant
vaseline zip lubricant
hacksaw and blades
hacksaw - junior
240 v lamp
axe
2 x monkey wrench
Duct Tape
Scissors
woodworking tools
saw
Wood glue
small plane.
sail mending kit
rope splicing gear
hand cleaner
A/F & WHIT spanners
"self-amalgamating tape
silicone spray
roll of monel wire
sail repair tape
sailmakers needles ( assorted)
"feeler gauges ( imp + metric)
long magnitic thing
socket set imp + metric
box spanners to fit keel bolts + long tommey-bay
Nigel Calder boat maintenence book
[--word removed--] file
rat-tail file x 2
various copper washers
waterpump pliers.
12v Soldering iron & solder
Blowtorch
Hole cutters
Pop riveter & assorted rivets
Sikaflex
Araldite
WD40
ring, open ender mm spanners
long nosed pliers
electrical wire
assorted stainless nuts bolts washers & self tappers.
A big over size adjustable spanner, big enough for gas bottle and stern gland, also great when leverage is required.
A cold chisel (long)
A shackle key
Electricians screwdrivers, especially for wiring up 12v lights etc.
Wire, a small reel to do an emergency repair to get you home, assorted crimps.
Cotter pins
Torch (mag light)
A good, serrated, sawing knife! Wire cutters
sailmaker's palm
Grinding wheel for your drill bits.
Oilstone for chisels and planes.
Penetrating oil
Leatherman
rigging knife
marlinspike
crowbars
punching tools for eylets and all sorts of eyelets
Serving board and serving mallets
Sewing machine
Boltcutters
ratchet screwdriver thing with bit and sockets
Crimping tool for electrical connectors
Digital multimeter
12V or gas soldering iron
Adjustable wrench (shifting spanner to those in the trade)
Electricians screwdriver
Chisel
oil filter removal tool
solder sucker

John

 

[CodStewart]

I've got a torch, some pliars, wirecrimpers and a drill.

 

[Ships_Cat]

And a nail file /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif?

(Not really just a tease, I have used one for filing metal/plastic when stuck for anything handier)

John

 

[CodStewart]

Actually, I think there's quite a bit of stuff on the boat. I'll inventory it all when I get there.

 

[TheBoatman]

And there was I thinking that you were going to supply a full list!

 

[AliM]

Well, go out and buy some duck tape, WD40 and sikaflex, then. They should sort you out.

Glad you are in more positive mood!

 

[Poignard]

OK. so much for what you have in your pockets, now tell us what you carry in the toolbox?

 

[rodwhite]

ships cat you list a small plane !!!!!!!! wow

 

[Kurrawong_Kid]

I have found a digital multimeter by far the most useful tool aboard after a pair of pliers and a screwdriver! Checking dry cell batteries, finding broken circuits, discovering why the nav. lights w'not work, and helping to add all the extra electronic gadgets you will inevitably buy and have to fix!

 

[CodStewart]

Got one of those. Phew.

 

[Ships_Cat]

I can recommend a Cessna Citation /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

John

 

[ELLIS100]

Thats more tools than I use to keep an Oil Rig running...

And Whitworth spanners????? Is there some strange nut on a boat that you would need this for?
With the exception of the owner of course.

 

[Ships_Cat]

Err that one must have been slipped in by someone else I reckon.

I dumped my Whitworth spanners/sockets many years ago. BUT, when I specified our boat around 10 years ago I specified all fastenings had to be metric but still ended up with 2 bronze setscrews in our stern gland assembly which neither AF nor metric spanners/sockets fit so I assume that they are probably Whitworth /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif. Fortunately a shifter will fit in the space around them.

John