What totally useless item do you have on the boat besides yourself?

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I am sure everyone has something. You think you may need it or you will be able to find a use for it at some point but now it has been on your boat so long you don't want to get rid of it.
We have a long thin roll of white material. don't know what it is for and it has always been there. We have never found a use for it but I live in hope. It has been everywhere with us.
What useless item do you carry.. you never know, someone may be able to suggest a use?
 
I could write a list, but probably its the stuffed dragon. Its a little red dragon in the forcabin which lives on the netting at the forward end. It was there when I bought the boat. Its still there. Its never moved and somehow I cant bring myself to chuck it overboard.
 
BarryH said:
I could write a list, but probably its the stuffed dragon. Its a little red dragon in the forcabin which lives on the netting at the forward end. It was there when I bought the boat. Its still there. Its never moved and somehow I cant bring myself to chuck it overboard.
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Its St Davids day today so maybe he or she should come out for an airing.
 
BarryH said:
I could write a list, but probably its the stuffed dragon. Its a little red dragon in the forcabin which lives on the netting at the forward end. It was there when I bought the boat. Its still there. Its never moved and somehow I cant bring myself to chuck it overboard.
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My boat has something similar: a knitted doll in seaboots and lifejacket. He was apparently made to decorate the boat when she was shown at the '86 London Boat Show and has been on board ever since.

Every so often I try to sort out and remove all the useless stuff on board, so on the whole she isn't too cluttered. This year the dubious CARD radar detector is going (an unreliable radar detector being, in my book, worse than no radar detector) and unless I can find out what's wrong with the NASA Navtex, that's for the heave too. The trysail will stay, though I have never used it, just as I never used the nice new trysail I had made for my last boat and which stayed in its bag for 20+ years.
 
Sidney. A little rubber spider we found in the yard when buying our first boat. Has been stuck to the bulkhead with blu tack.

Good sign having spiders on a boat. Spiders do not like damp.
 
JumbleDuck said:
My boat has something similar: a knitted doll in seaboots and lifejacket. He was apparently made to decorate the boat when she was shown at the '86 London Boat Show and has been on board ever since.

Every so often I try to sort out and remove all the useless stuff on board, so on the whole she isn't too cluttered. This year the dubious CARD radar detector is going (an unreliable radar detector being, in my book, worse than no radar detector) and unless I can find out what's wrong with the NASA Navtex, that's for the heave too. The trysail will stay, though I have never used it, just as I never used the nice new trysail I had made for my last boat and which stayed in its bag for 20+ years.
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I have one of those too. The original owner must have spec'd a roller furling genoa. The original Jib, from 1979, is still in he plastic bag with the maers tag attatched. I only have the one forstay so hve no way of using the jib. Yet it still stays under the forward berh in the forecabin along with the dragon.......
 
A complete Johnny Depp style 'Pirates of the Caribbean' pirate outfit, including dreadlocks, boots, sword and stuffed monkey!
Only used once, carried for years. Don't ask me why, I just keep thinking it might come in useful one day!
 
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