CFG98
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Nail clippers.
Using a portable angle grinder is a mistake
Rigging cutters are too big.
A knife also a mistake.
Using a portable angle grinder is a mistake
Rigging cutters are too big.
A knife also a mistake.
The most normal piece of equipment you have forgotten?
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Boathook
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Hot air gun when I needed to warm up and dry some fibreglass. Now have one on boat and a decent one at home. Buying a new one was cheaper than a 200 mile trip.
Moodysailor
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Not boating related, but I forgot my cycling shoes once after driving 2hrs to the start of a bike race. Ended up spectating in my socks...
AntarcticPilot
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Boat keys!
Blueboatman
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Sleeping bag
jamie N
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All ROV's have a 'hand-controller', or joystick thingy if you like, with which the ROV is controlled.
I went to Thailand and opened an ROV system freshly sent from the UK, where they'd forgotten to pack it.
Oops.
I went to Thailand and opened an ROV system freshly sent from the UK, where they'd forgotten to pack it.
Oops.
Daydream believer
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deleted. not apropriate
Biggles Wader
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The genoa. It was at home for a bit of tlc and I went for a sail and forgot it. We decided to put up the storm jib, the only time Ive ever used it!
Daydream believer
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Why did you need cycling shoes to spectate? Or do you just go to the event in the the licra & kit with " team sky" written all over it, to flash the hairy legs, but do not have a bike.
AntarcticPilot
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Not boaty, but on one of my field trips to Svalbard, someone (not me!) forgot to pack the toolkit we required to assemble our prefabricated equipment. We managed with a set of tools that included my Captain Curry pen-knife, along with a few begged, borrowed or stolen spanners etc.
Moodysailor
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Why did you need cycling shoes to spectate? Or do you just go to the event in the the licra & kit with " team sky" written all over it, to flash the hairy legs, but do not have a bike.
I was there to take part, having no shoes meant I couldn't so I spectated instead. I was there anyway - with bike & all kit except for shoes....
AngusMcDoon
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I set off on a 4 month sailing trip with only 5 socks, not pairs, socks. That included the 2 I was wearing when I left home. A crew brought some more, but an even number, so I still had an odd one.
AngusMcDoon
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Nail clippers.
Using a portable angle grinder is a mistake
Rigging cutters are too big.
A knife also a mistake.
Wire cutters are perfect. I don't think I've used anything else for years...
Minchsailor
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My glasses. Couldn't read a thing.
penfold
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Do you often drive without shoes?
Gixer
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Not sailing related but I walked up tabletop mountain in Wales with a 5x4 camera only to realise I’d left the dark slide (thing that holds the film) at home in Sussex.
Sandy
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I think you have way too much kit onboard, especially in the sock department.
Sandy
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I have been know to leave without a beer bottle opener, but have been shown how to use all sorts of its of metal ranging from a spoon to a winch handle to open a bottle of beer.
AngusMcDoon
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A pipe wrench is as good a bottle opener as wire cutters are nail clippers. I don't think I've used anything else for years...
AngusMcDoon
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I agree. It wasn't so much the lack of sockage that was bothersome as carrying round all summer the excess weight from the single useless sock. Tiz a trimaran thing.
