What spares to carry?

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I know that the list can be massive . However, can you please help me compile a list of spares that I should initially carry on the boat as we head of for a season in the med? We have a 40 ft boat that is 3 years old.
So far I have....

Engine spares. Filters (oil/fuel), impellers, drive belt, o rings.
Engine oil
Spare starter

Water maker spares.

Tools, spare nuts, bolts , clips, fuses, bow thruster fuse.

There are probably many more I have, but For now I'd like help from you good people.

Cheers
 
Rope, various sizes but quite a lot.
Winch service kit.
Oil, engine and gear box/Saildrive.
Black nasty (aka duct tape).
Epoxy putty (the variety that works under water).
Tube of sealant.
Sheet of 9 or 12 mm marine plywood (comes in handy for all sorts of stuff).
Assorted SS wood screws and self tappers.
A bosun's bag with various spare shackles, clips and the like for fettling rigging.
Tool kit covering mechanical and woodworking areas (woodworking tools do well for GRP work).
Battery drill plus cobalt drill bits (overkill for wood and GRP but great if you wind up having to drill stainless).
Angle grinder, cutting discs and flap wheel (cutting bits out of chain, grinding rust out of keel etc).
Dremel or similar.
Gel coat repair kit (plastic padding one if you've got a white hull, coloured one if required).
Wet and dry paper in various grades.

The list is endless and you'll acquire more as you go on, unless you can afford to throw money at your problems as you go.

Oh, and a sense of humour.
 
Many thanks. I have most of the above mentioned tools, and more besides.

I have no lift pump on my engine, it has an electric diaphragm pump.

Will look into a winch servicing kit.

Ta
 
sailorman said:
I would have a lift pump over a starter motor
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I wouldn't - if necessary there are various ways of improvising the delivery of fuel to the injector pump (gravity, air pressure, etc) but with a modern industrially-derived engine with no decompressors, if you don't have a starter then you ain't getting it started.

Pete
 
To your raw water pump impeller I'd definitely add at least a pump service kit (seals, bearings), if not a complete pump. Sooner or later it will leak.
A spare bilge pump with the same output diameter as your old one, plus float switch.
Selection of marine cabling, crimps, connectors, fuses.
Cobalt bits aren't necessary for drilling stainless, but sharp bits definitely are. Keep them separate from your day-to-day bits.
...and a bigger boat to fit them all :ambivalence:
 
Spare rode (chain and nylon), spare anchor, weight is now becoming an issue for you (or the yacht) maybe think alloy? but consider a different style to your current model but it should be of the same 'size' performance as your existing bower.

Spare, and generous dock, lines.

Jonathan
 
macd said:
To your raw water pump impeller I'd definitely add at least a pump service kit (seals, bearings), if not a complete pump. Sooner or later it will leak.
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2nd the spare raw water pump.
I would add a length of fuel pipe and olives.
A length of exhaust hose (I've had some s/s pipe inserts to join hoses together made ).
Maybe even have a spare exhaust elbow and an alternator, or is that going too far!
 
Take a look at the manufacterer's kit contents and then filter by weight, space and price. - remember toilet function stuff as well as engine.
Do remember, you are going to a popular sailing area, there ARE facilities available.
We carried a lot of stuff that never got used, but had to wait weeks for an injector for an old Volvo.
My priority for fixing things is a work area = a sturdy plank that can be fixed to become a rough bench somewhere (even in a deep locker)
then you need a decent clamp-on vice and the usual files,saws hammers etc. a hand drill (not electric). I like being able to fix the broken things rather than carry replacements.(your dinghy repair kit has rubber sheet that can be used to make a pump diaphragm for instance.)
 
Billjratt said:
My priority for fixing things is a work area = a sturdy plank that can be fixed to become a rough bench somewhere (even in a deep locker)
then you need a decent clamp-on vice and the usual files,saws hammers etc. a hand drill (not electric).
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+1 - I have a workbench on Ariam, and we're just a weekends-and-holidays coastal cruiser.

It's a piece of ply that fits over the top step of the companionway, with fiddles around the back and sides (but not the front) to prevent bits falling down the back of the ladder or tools gouging the woodwork either side. A clamp-on vice also holds the bench in place (and the bench stops the vice marking the step). I would miss it a great deal if it were gone.

Unlike Billjratt I do favour an electric drill - if you're already working in difficult conditions there's no need to also handicap yourself with basic tools. Mine is my old ni-cad Makita (now have a li-ion one for the main workshop/toolbox) with two batteries and a 12v charger for them.

Pete
 
If I cast my mind back to spares used whilst cruising Brittany these would include:
Vetus stern shaft seal
Bowthruster blade
Prop anode
10mm rigging with swageless fittings
Raw water pump impeller
Winch service kit
Ring pull handle for fridge lid
Brass hook for drop leaf on saloon table
Gas regulator
All of the other stuff filling lockers has never been used.
 
Over many years in a professional capacity I have advised many people regarding engine spares to be carried and found that it differed from engine to engine and boat to boat and owner to owner
I would suggest that a service before using is the best preventive maintainance and will lessen the need to carry spares
Speak to a trusted large dealer about you specific needs they will know that X engine eats fooufle units and that's why they stock them
Unless the item is expensive then the better dealer will stock what he uses and by the time the engine is your age it will have a pattern
Service item will be required for the next service so you may as well get them early along with the bits that can be affected by external events impellers fuel filters etc
You will also want the breakdown parts that happened to you before
Don't do what one very polite lady from Edinburgh did when she bought a range of unusual parts went off on holiday for six months and then decided that as she had not needed them she could just hand them back with a full refund!
 
A plastic outboard tank with associated pipe and squeezy bulb can deliver emergency fuel, with pressure for bleeding. I had a spare hose tail with stopcock on the primary filter for a hose to go on.
 
LadyInBed said:
2nd the spare raw water pump.
I would add a length of fuel pipe and olives.
A length of exhaust hose (I've had some s/s pipe inserts to join hoses together made ).
Maybe even have a spare exhaust elbow and an alternator, or is that going too far!
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Not at all - the alternator is the most fallible peice of equipment on a liveaboard boat.
I carry things that are small and specific to the boat - you can get lube oil anywhere and I've found belts no problem - but a spare raw-water pump as well as impeller, bearing kit and seals.
Though I have an injector elbow, never needed to use it in earnest and find self-amalgamating tape in valuable for all the hoses that leak - oh! don't forget the spare Morse cable for throttle and gearchange...
I will confess I have a spare pressure-fresh-water pump - ordered in haste from UK for delivery Kalamata - only to find the problem was the live cable having only 2 of 16 strands still connected.
In 8 years the original pump has continued to give excellent service, though I probably need a new pressure sensor switch...
 
Oscarpop said:
What spares to carry?
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Funny you should ask. Made an inventory only last Sunday.
Here goes, in mo particular order:
- oil lamp chimney
- various sizes and lengths of fresh and waste water hose
- emergency nav lights
- spare echo sounder mounting kit (internal mount)
- jubilee clips (various sizes)
- screws (various sizes)
- 220V circuit breakers
- spare light bulbs
- gas lighter refill cans
- spare blocks
- spare autopilot CPU
- spare bilge pump
- spare fresh water pump
- spare VHF antenna
- impellers
- spare impeller pump
- spare alternator belts
- engine oil pump out kit
- engine oil
- spare engine filters (air, diesel and oil)
- grease
- spare anodes (prop and prop shaft)
- spare sheets and halyards
- screwdrivers and wrenches (all sizes)
 
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