What have you found most useful when things have gone wrong?

On my list :
Set of tools
Cable ties
Duck tape
Set of 'o' rings of vaious sizes
Push fit isolator valves x2
Nappies - my oil,diesel and water spilage fixits
Set of engine oil diesel filters belts etc
Sink / toilet plunger
string / jubilee clips
mastic, plumbers tape
gas soldering iron
mole grips.
engine oil and funnel
 
- Spares (lots of)
- Good crew (they usually know where all the spares are)
- Common sense

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Blown engine.

What fixed it.

1, A mobile phone to phone the missus in Italy to ring the french rescue services......the wouldnt answer on the VHF ! they would only blabber on in french, she speaks that well.

2, Money.....to bribe the rotten sod to actually tow us in to the marina,,,,he wouldnt budge for less than 200 urinis.

3, More money to buy a new outboard.

4, An outboard....the Chandlery had a new outboard oh yes but no bloomin bracket to mount it on.
Let the Bodging begin...
5, Bits of Old Pallet.

6, The transom ladder.

7, Rope.

Result.....

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The Jury was sure as hell out on this one. But...


It made it the 130 Nm home ! including heavy use in a windless night through the Italian shipping lane of Genoa.
 
Some interesting lists, I was contemplating my tools and spares requirements...

I guess I will keep with my tool box of random tools. I rarely have the right tool but always seem to have something that will do the job...

Which reminds me must buy new impeller and gasket, before I go out again...
 
Every tool i own, expanding foam, g clamps, fibreglass, a adjustable length of strong tube threaded at each end with screw on flat faces, rum, relevant manuals, spare bilge pump, trickle charger, powerfull torch, a GOOD inverter for power tools, if i had space for my compressor that would be in there too! You can never carry enough problem solving gear because if the worst should happen, any time you can buy yourself is priceless, even seconds could mean the difference between life and death!
 
Ghetto_skool said:
Every tool i own, expanding foam, g clamps, fibreglass, a adjustable length of strong tube threaded at each end with screw on flat faces, rum, relevant manuals, spare bilge pump, trickle charger, powerfull torch, a GOOD inverter for power tools, if i had space for my compressor that would be in there too! You can never carry enough problem solving gear because if the worst should happen, any time you can buy yourself is priceless, even seconds could mean the difference between life and death!
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If you're resourceful enough you can find a different solution fairly quickly if you have some basic tools. The only time I've ever had a situation where only one thing would do, that thing was a fire extinguisher. Fire on a boat is VERY scary.
 
that reminds me I gotta get mine checked! Great thread for reminding you of things you may have overlooked! I have a few extinguishers on board but never really paid any attention to them except for cleaning them. I imagine that must have been pretty horrific! How did it start out of curiosity? Ian
 
Keeping to a really short list, I was going to echo the Tape, string and a few tools brigade, but then I thought back over the years and decided that the Mobile Phone actually deserves pride of place.
Two or three times on multi-leg races it's enabled me to order a spare, delivered to the next stop-over.
And on one memorable occasion, the mobile meant that the hoist was all prepped up for the emergency lift when we limped back to Hamble Point with a blooming great hole in the side, and by that time the insurers, repairers, friends waiting in the wrong place, etc etc were all up to speed on the situation.

A.
 
Ghetto_skool said:
that reminds me I gotta get mine checked! Great thread for reminding you of things you may have overlooked! I have a few extinguishers on board but never really paid any attention to them except for cleaning them. I imagine that must have been pretty horrific! How did it start out of curiosity? Ian
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Short on the back of the engine ignition switch. Lot of smoke, opened the locker to get to the back of it, and there were flames....
 
flaming said:
If you're resourceful enough you can find a different solution fairly quickly if you have some basic tools. The only time I've ever had a situation where only one thing would do, that thing was a fire extinguisher. Fire on a boat is VERY scary.
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+1 Oh thats another one to my list of tools used in an emergency fire Extinguisher, not a good day.
Still have 1 or 2 small scars from that one....
 
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