What to put in your grab bag?

[woody001]

Hey all,

Topic of the day…

What to put in your grab bag?

VHF, EPIRB, sea sickness pills, playboy and tissues?

just making one at the moment, ideas please!


Si.

 

[Twister_Ken]

The eyes have it.

Spare pair of specs

 

[claymore]

Ice and Lemon - Gin can be so tedious without them

 

[jimi]

water and biscuits

 

[michael_w]

From memory as it's in the loft.

Flares
water maker
light sticks
cd (hieleograph)
Kendal mint cake(As eaten on Everest)
water
leatherman
sea sick pills
Pencils + paper
Exposure blankets

+ on long passages
Wallet
Passport
Ship's papers
House keys
VHF
GPS

Stowed near by

Ex North Sea helicopter survival suits.

 

[claymore]

Re: The eyes have it.

Oh well - if you are not all bored by this interminable hardy perennial
this is not a bad site
web page

 

[BlueSkyNick]

spare batteries for handheld GPS and VHF

 

[Twister_Ken]

Spare batteries for electric toothbrush, iPod, Jack Rabbit vibe and remote radio controlled RNLI lifeboat.

Not forgetting a stash of disposable BBQs for all the fish I'll be catching.

 

[BlueSkyNick]

.... and spare gas to go in the lighter gadget for the disposable BBQ's !

 

[snowleopard]

Spare medication if needed
Cans of food (and opener)

and nearby-

Flares
Drinking water

 

[zefender]

Iridium phone in drybag
Waterproof LED Torch/lamp
Basic 1st Aid kit
Barley sugar
canvas bucket (unless bailer in raft is useful)
GPS
Pencils, sharpener and waterproof paper


...wind up radio
suncream
shark repellant

...spare liferaft

 

[BlueChip]

Depends on where and how far offshore you are sailing, but even in the Solent we always keep car keys and wallet in the grab bag.

 

[Koeketiene]

Common sense, and plenty of it.

 

[savageseadog]

Bible or Koran

 

[rwoofer]

I always wondered why people put a GPS in a grab.

I thought that in a liferaft you are at the mercy of the wind and tides, so even if you knew where you where, you couldn't do anything about it. This would be especially the case if it wasn't a chartplotter GPS, cause how would you figure out where your lat/long is.

Can anyone enlighten me on what I have missed.

 

[Steve Clayton]

One of these wind-up mobile phone chargers and a wind-up torch

 

[BlueSkyNick]

so that if you are lucky enough to establish verbal contact with somebody, either by VHF or mobile, you can read out your exact position rather than an EP based on when you left the boat.

 

[Vara]

All of the above + 200B&H and a couple of dispo. lighters.

 

[snowleopard]

Reminds me of a story from the early days of the Apollo moon programme. At a press conference a female journalist asked if there were plans to send a woman to the moon. The spokesman apparently said deadpan "Not at present maam but we have an allowance for 100 pounds of recreational equipment".

 

[copterdoctor]

Three meals a day and anything else she desires.