Fish tape! Most-borrowed item on the boat.
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David Grimm
E38-200
Leatherman wave tool with bit set and extension for the boat and the Leatherman skell tool on harness or life jacket.
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Sheath for Leatherman Wave Plus and Bit Kit Ratchet Driver - Etsy
This Tools item by HoldMyGear has 316 favorites from Etsy shoppers. Ships from Hayward, CA. Listed on Sep 15, 2023
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David Grimm
E38-200
Don't forget this guy! Someone on here even made a video of it!
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1911tex
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For your cell phone, a portable charged battery pack..a phone number list of local marinas, tow services, coast guard station, restaurants, fellow sailers, sheriffs department, etc., etc. And don't forget personal I.D. and proof of insurance. 5 gals of fuel. Potty odor tabs, can of brake cleaner (best grease remover, hand cleaner, etc) and shop towels, can of ant and roach insecticide.
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By enormous popular demand, the video of Post #23:
Music: "Titel," Klaus Doldinger, "Das Boot"
Music: "Titel," Klaus Doldinger, "Das Boot"
Your engine compartment looks cleaner than most of the rooms in my house. Kudos!
Question #1: I don't really understand the point of bleeding the fuel system if the engine is running.
What problem are you solving? I would have thought the engine wouldn't run if the fuel system needed to be bled?
Question #2: That's an external fuel pump pushing diesel from your tank into your primary filter, yes? Why did you install it?
Filkee
Sustaining Member
Love the bags. Have two that hold most of what I need. Keeping the sockets in some order without a rigid container still vexes me and again, I wonder which of the 40 or so bits will I never actually use?The Right Tools
A tool for every job on the boat, on the boat. But boxes to hold them have sharp edges, and bags mean digging in the dark for the allen wrenches.
These roll-up bags, made of scrap fabric, have been working well and pretty much solved the problem.
They contain one (only) of each size and description necessary for all the usual jobs. They make it easy to see what you've got. They store in a soft package in our oddly shaped hull lockers.
The spanner bag has two sub-bags: one for socket sets and one for metric. Imperial spanners lie in the master bag. .
You can make the rollups yourself, or buy versions on line starting at only $10.
Me too - I love the bags for wrenches (fixed and adjustable), screw drivers, etc. But I too am struggling to find a convenient way to store/display sets of sockets arranged by size. I have many sockets (from various small sets that came with inadequate storage systems), which I want to assemble into two sets: metric vs. non-metric, but can't think of a good way to keep them.
Perhaps acquire a "rail" and then slide it into a canvas tube?
I have a Craftsman socket set in its proprietary hard plastic case, but the case is a kind of clunky to store. Everything's a compromise, as the saying goes.
One Note about clean engine compartments...... ours is also clean.... same method: remove old dirty engine and clean the area, and install a new Betamarine.
I have a Craftsman socket set in its proprietary hard plastic case, but the case is a kind of clunky to store. Everything's a compromise, as the saying goes.
One Note about clean engine compartments...... ours is also clean.... same method: remove old dirty engine and clean the area, and install a new Betamarine.
Set of torx drivers required for the roller furler and no other purpose. Set of hex drivers required for the shaft coupler and no other purpose. Split ring pliers required for the water pump impeller and no other purpose.
I find stuff like that... disturbing. And it’s an escalating problem.
I find stuff like that... disturbing. And it’s an escalating problem.
Blue masking tape
3-4 rolls at least
Masking
Labeling bags of items, items
Sealing up spliced lines going through sheaves
Applied to fingertips as temporary gloves.
Tidying up rolls of material
3-4 rolls at least
Masking
Labeling bags of items, items
Sealing up spliced lines going through sheaves
Applied to fingertips as temporary gloves.
Tidying up rolls of material
Speaking of bags, we have about 5 sizes of zip-lok baggies, up to the gallon size. Very useful. The larger ones are good for disposal of used oil filters and fuel filters, for instance.
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Sailingfun
Member III
...enough salami, cheese, beer, bread, AND coffee... The rest is secondary...
windblown
Member III
Couldn’t find any of those “bowels with non-skid bottoms“ (mentioned in post #5) on the West Marine site today, but perhaps they were popular in 2016. . .
I apologize for this comment that really adds nothing helpful to the conversation, but the typo made me laugh out loud, and a little levity is welcome these days.
I apologize for this comment that really adds nothing helpful to the conversation, but the typo made me laugh out loud, and a little levity is welcome these days.
windblown
Member III
Filkee
Sustaining Member
Or this: https://www.atlas46.com/products.html#!/Mifflin-Socket-Roll/p/102793018/category=34912316Perhaps acquire a "rail" and then slide it into a canvas tube?
I have a Craftsman socket set in its proprietary hard plastic case, but the case is a kind of clunky to store. Everything's a compromise, as the saying goes.
One Note about clean engine compartments...... ours is also clean.... same method: remove old dirty engine and clean the area, and install a new Betamarine.
Mark David
Member II
how about a 'preset' rebuild kit with a new diaphragm and hose clamp ready for the whaler bilge pump...
Thanks Filkee. That's a company with quite an interesting array of canvas products, that I had not found before.
