What's the oldest thing on your boat?

[DownWest]

Though about to be launched.. A Seafarer spinning light depth sounder and a Seacourse autohelm. Nav, of course, will be by a Yeoman.

 

[davidaprice]

We've a coffee measuring spoon aboard made from wood from the Cutty Sark, a souvenir from my last visit to London. Though the spoon itself as an object is only maybe 4 years old.

 

[greeny]

My Dad's old RDF. I don't know if it still works and would definitely need new batteries but it goes from boat to boat down the years.

 

[awol]

Various items with broad arrows dating from WWII. Only small things though - my old man never managed to liberate a 15" gun.

 

[Phil_boat]

Most things are that old, but off the top of my head it’s probably a knife issued by the environment agency when I worked for them in the early 2000s.

I haven’t had a use for it for the last twenty years but buying a boat it seemed the obvious place to put it.

Like this

 

[SimonX]

Various items with broad arrows dating from WWII. Only small things though - my old man never managed to liberate a 15" gun.

I once met a chap whose dad worked a Thomas Ward at Inverkeithing where they scrapped many battleships and he had a picture of him standing beside a stack of 15 and 16 inch guns cut into chunks to make them more easy to handle when they were melted down.
There's a couple at the Imperial war museum you could borrow if nobody was looking

 

[Keith 66]

Oldest usable thing is Dads green river riggers knife, probably 1930's. Then there are several shards of Romano british pottery from the Medway estuary, I live in hope of finding a complete one one day if the poxy hovercraft boys havent hoovered it all up!

 

[jwilson]

1941 US Navy sextant, though not usually on board any more just for coastal pottering.

 

[Koeketiene]

Sestrell compass