What Spares Do You Carry Aboard?

Most of the above plus
Cutlass bearing
Copper fuel pipe and olives
Multimeter
Grease of various descriptions
Deironised water
Oil and fuel filters
Sail D toggles (Not sure what the prosper name is)
Stainless nuts, Bolts, Washer, Self tapers of various sizes
And a 1001 Other things! :o
 
Add lots of strong string, of sizes varying from thread up to mooring/towing warps. Resist all attempts to "clear it out".
 
Well I've got all the things people have listed and many more that I've forgotten (until digging out the lockers) but notable misses, so far are:-
a spare toilet pump + a maintenance kit, repair sticky-back sailcloth in 5 colours and 3 weights, 3kg of Yunnan tea (at the beginning of the season), ready-to-fit sail tell-tales and several lidless cooking pots due to incompentent crew....
 
Is it considered pedantic if I say most of the above are tools not spares?
In tools list I'd add blow torch, soldering iron and solder as well as a variety of electrical connectors, and in a spares list I have two rolls of rigging wire to be able to replace the longest piece of rigging if the mast is still up, and a selection of clamps like these
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Trouble is I used to carry loads of stuff but the bit that breaks you never seem to have and if you do you don't have the right tools etc to sort it.I reckon I took about half a ton of weight off mine on a big clear out. I think most essential are fuel system parts,belts,thermostat,wiring bits and bobs and rigging bits.
 
Neil_Y said:
Is it considered pedantic if I say most of the above are tools not spares?
In tools list I'd add blow torch, soldering iron and solder as well as a variety of electrical connectors, and in a spares list I have two rolls of rigging wire to be able to replace the longest piece of rigging if the mast is still up, and a selection of clamps like these
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Being pedantic - I can only count four out of 29 posts who have mentioned what would normally be considered tools.
 
I have taken off the sea anchor, starter and alternator, more stuff to go through. But since YM tried to sink that boat I have added a square of 4mm ply, blue plastic sheet and some sticks like pooh underwater sealant, but I do sail in a rocky area!

And I think I have most of what has already been mentioned!
 
We carried all of that and more including rigging wire sized for every stay and Stalok fittings, but it was for a lng distance boat. I thing I would recommend, in case the boat is holed, is sticks of underwater epoxy which are green on the outside and white in the middle, I can't remember the name, but available at most chandlers. It's quickest epoxy to mix, use a wet hand and knead for a few minutes it turns white when it's ready. Make enough to cover any hole plus and extra inch wide all round and slighter thicker than the hull. It sets in about five to six minutes so hold it in place.
 
Full socket set and tool kit including torque wrench plus necessary spanners/sockets to remove/replace injectors if you have inboard diesel.
Low wattage drill and angle grinder plus an invertor to run them off batteries.
A collection of all the rope you have got/replaced etc.
Electrical insulation tape and Duct tape
 
I am gobsmacked by the spares & tool lists.

I had no idea that there were so many world-girdling boaters on thsi forum. I always assumed that most posters daysailed out of their marina or had the odd cruise up & down the coast for a week or two. But clearly you lot expect to be out of sight of land (& chandleries) for many months at a time. I am well impressed.
 
Spares? A foot-pump on board would have been handy the other day. I pulled my dinghy onto the boat in the middle of the night as it was pouring with rain and without thinking deflated it as it was blowing a hooly. I realised in the morning the foot-pump was in the boot of the car - plonker :rolleyes:
 
I tend to carry around things which have been replaced on the boat. So things like old cabin lights, galley taps, cooling water pipes, the odd winch, old propeller etc. It's sort of like an extension to the garage at home. Every few years I will transfer various items from floating garage to land based garage. We can now hardly get into the land based garage. I suppose it's known as hoarding. My name is Al and I'm a hoarder...
 
When I changed our marina berth in Empuriabrava a year ago, it came with a "trastero", a secure shed. So now I can fill that up with junk too!

It's handy to store stuff I don't need on the boat all the time but, when we do go out, the required stuff is quickly to hand.
 
LadyInBed said:
Most of the above plus
Cutlass bearing
Copper fuel pipe and olives
Multimeter
Grease of various descriptions
Deironised water
Oil and fuel filters
Sail D toggles (Not sure what the prosper name is)
Stainless nuts, Bolts, Washer, Self tapers of various sizes
And a 1001 Other things! :o
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Is deironised water for doing de ironing? (sorry!)
 
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