What Spares Do You Carry Aboard?

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Hoping to learn something from this....

On board I have spare:

Fan belts
Impellers
Oil
Shackles x N
Power pack
Alternator
Nuts and Bolts
Filters (oil/fuel)
Anchors
Lines
Fuel
Meths
Fuses
Bulbs
Emergency aerial
Flares
First Aid Kit
Hand Held VHF
Signal flags
Torches
Life raft
Sail thread and palm
Slugs
Blocks

... anything else that should be on board a 26 foot sloop?
 
Two large engines, each with own fuel supply and twin fanbelts, so not much in the way of engine spares.

However, decent toolkit, all fluids, and an assortment of odds and sods (bulbs, fuses, clips, tapes, screws etc etc)

Always managed to repair boat before we got home, apart from a diesel injector pipe a few years back.

Fingers crossed eh!?
 
Seastart membership card, this is paid for by the fuel economy gained by leaving all the other rubbish behind (Mobo sailor - sorry). Chances are whatever you do carry it will not be the right bit when failure occurs.

Now I must join this perfect world and reinstate my Seastart membership ...
 
Rigging spares and repair kit
Mastic gun with tube of sticky mastic
epoxy+polyester resin
Hose clips and hoses
are things I like to have in addition to your list.
 
Never the right spares!

Outboard spark plug...
Inboard Fuel filter(s), water impeller & gasket, old fan belts as spares.
Electrics, fuses.
Rigging shackles, self tapping screws (misc), duct tape, sail tape, assorted lines & ropes..

All the others are bonus extras and I keep trying to remove...
 
It is not safe to go to sea without cable ties. Assortment of length and strength. At times they hold the boat together!
 
Seatrout said:
Hoping to learn something from this....

On board I have spare:

Fan belts
Impellers
Oil
Shackles x N
Power pack
Alternator
Nuts and Bolts
Filters (oil/fuel)
Anchors
Lines
Fuel
Meths
Fuses
Bulbs
Emergency aerial
Flares
First Aid Kit
Hand Held VHF
Signal flags
Torches
Life raft
Sail thread and palm
Slugs
Blocks

... anything else that should be on board a 26 foot sloop?
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Another 10 feet looking at that list.

We are short on flags, other then courtesy flags for those bits of the UK that the UK does not know are independent.

Then we do have all the necessary to rebuild the inflatable, pumps in the plural. An outboard rebuild kit.
A voltage phase detector and earth fault indicator.
Pop riveter and various types and sizes of rivets.

Far too much string of different sizes and type.

You could save some weight by having the instructions to make an emergency VHF aerial on board with you.
 
if going offshore for any length of time

Toilet service kit
spare toilet hose
various engine hoses
wet exhaust trap
hydraulic fluid
sail track slides
 
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I've been thankful for offcuts of fuel and water hose before.

All engine service items, obviously.

Not a spare as such, but a length of flex with a lighter socket plug on one end and red and black croc clips on the other is handy for troubleshooting and jury-rigging electrics (the first time I was out after dark in the new boat it powered my stern lamp :) )

I used to have a bag labelled "Scrapheap Challenge" on board, containing all sorts of potentially useful bits and bobs of metal, wood, rubber, etc culled from the workshop on shore.

Sod it, here's what I posted the last few times this came up :)

http://www.ybw.com/forums/showthread.php?279989-Tool-Box&p=3036081#post3036081
http://www.ybw.com/forums/showthread.php?250794-Useful-items-to-have-on-board&p=2662520#post2662520
http://www.ybw.com/forums/showthread.php?250794-Useful-items-to-have-on-board&p=2662558#post2662558

Pete
 
Two handy extras are JB weld and a roll of self amalgamating tape. Both cheap. Oh and a complete set of smart clothes/shoes in a vacuum pack)
 
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