What do you always carry in the tender and how?

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I see a lot of tenders motoring ashore with nothing more than their credit card. Now the fact I see them means its probably a relatively busy area and a breakdown or similar would not be a disaster but I suspect those people do the same when motoring ashore for a BBQ or to walk the dogs etc in the middle of nowhere. So it got me wondering am I being paranoid with:

Small 0.75kg anchor and about 15m of 6mm rope.
VHF Handheld
Multitool including knife.
Oars
Bailer
Some magic tape that patches anything even when wet
A spare cheap cagoule that lives in the dinghy bag - because sods law it rains if you don't have one. I just carry one big one - not one for everyone.
Spare shear pin for o/board, spare kill cord clip and handful of zip ties, a roll of insulating tape, and a couple of big thick bin bags (for anything acquired ashore that needs to stay dry).
The dinghy pump.

Everyone wears L/Jackets. Helm wears kill cord.

I don't have flares or PLB. I will usually have my phone anyway.
Am I missing anything - I used to have WD40 and some other stuff (a tiny first aid kit with plasters and wipes) but it just got rusty etc. Had anyone got a really neat way of carrying their stuff? The scruffy bag it lives in is probably going to need replaced soon - can't live in the dinghy as it will be folder up each trip. Or am I being overkill and everyone gets by without - I've never actually needed anything in a life of death situation but there have been times where it saved a trip back to the boat for a tool etc.
 
ylop said:
I see a lot of tenders motoring ashore with nothing more than their credit card. Now the fact I see them means its probably a relatively busy area and a breakdown or similar would not be a disaster but I suspect those people do the same when motoring ashore for a BBQ or to walk the dogs etc in the middle of nowhere. So it got me wondering am I being paranoid with:

Small 0.75kg anchor and about 15m of 6mm rope.
VHF Handheld
Multitool including knife.
Oars
Bailer
Some magic tape that patches anything even when wet
A spare cheap cagoule that lives in the dinghy bag - because sods law it rains if you don't have one. I just carry one big one - not one for everyone.
Spare shear pin for o/board, spare kill cord clip and handful of zip ties, a roll of insulating tape, and a couple of big thick bin bags (for anything acquired ashore that needs to stay dry).
The dinghy pump.

Everyone wears L/Jackets. Helm wears kill cord.

I don't have flares or PLB. I will usually have my phone anyway.
Am I missing anything - I used to have WD40 and some other stuff (a tiny first aid kit with plasters and wipes) but it just got rusty etc. Had anyone got a really neat way of carrying their stuff? The scruffy bag it lives in is probably going to need replaced soon - can't live in the dinghy as it will be folder up each trip. Or am I being overkill and everyone gets by without - I've never actually needed anything in a life of death situation but there have been times where it saved a trip back to the boat for a tool etc.
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anchor and long warp in front locker. Oars strapped to boat. Auto baler part of dinghy. Nav lights In custom bag. No other crap!

(kill cord and vhf attached to me. )
 
For me -
Long and short painters (can be repurposed if a line needed for another purpose);
bailer (= cut down plastic milk bottle), secured by cord loop to thwart or whatever in case of capsize;
sponge (wedged in bailer - perhaps this counts as a 'luxury' item? ;-) );
oars;
rowlocks tethered to the boat;
buoyancy aids (in preference to lifejackets) for each person aboard.

I think it wise to carry an anchor. I used to carry a small folding grapnel on a couple of metres of chain and a few metres of light line, but admit I've got out of the habit.
 
Elessar said:
Do none of you go out in the dark?
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Only very occasionally, unless it’s a full moon....finding a boat in the dark is far more difficult than finding land...but we do carry a torch plus cell phones but these are on our person
 
Elessar said:
Do none of you go out in the dark?
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I do, but the question was what do you always carry in the tender.

For night use, though, it's handy to have a torch for signalling one's presence (e.g. if crossing a fairway, or in case of emergency), but rarely useful to actually switch it on to see where you are going. The reduction in night vision usually outweighs the limited benefit of the modest illumination.
 
I use navisafe lights. Used far more often than a spare spark plug.

If your dinghy can do more than 7 knots then red/green sectored lights and an all round white is mandatory so a torch only complies for slow tenders. It doesn’t matter if you are only going slowly it still doesn’t comply.
 
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Bouba said:
Only very occasionally, unless it’s a full moon....finding a boat in the dark is far more difficult than finding land...but we do carry a torch plus cell phones but these are on our person
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Agree with that! It’s bad when you’ve forgotten your anchor light. I leave the cockpit lights on too if going ashore in the dark.
 
Elessar said:
Do none of you go out in the dark?
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ah, good point. Never on the current boat but it doesn’t get dark till nearly 10pm for most of the boating season so not much need - if it’s been that late then a tender might not be a safe mode of transport. But I have done in the past. Torch in the bag with other bits bound to be rusted or batteries flat come the point of use though. Might need to look at options for that if we are going to use later in season or the south.
 
ylop said:
ah, good point. Never on the current boat but it doesn’t get dark till nearly 10pm for most of the boating season so not much need - if it’s been that late then a tender might not be a safe mode of transport. But I have done in the past. Torch in the bag with other bits bound to be rusted or batteries flat come the point of use though. Might need to look at options for that if we are going to use later in season or the south.
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My boating season is 12 months a year. The boat comes out for a week in the summer. It’s a waste of a good boat to only use it in the summer!
 
Elessar said:
I use navisafe lights. Used far more often than a spare spark plug.

If your dinghy can do more than 7 knots then red/green sectored lights and an all round white is mandatory so a torch only complies for slow tenders. It doesn’t matter if you are only going slowly it still doesn’t comply.
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No-one around here complies with that rule, lots of fast tenders around just showing a torch - if anything.
 
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