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In my experience, both as a pleasure sailor and a professional marine techie, you will need every single tool aboard at some time or other and, especially, you will need the tools you took off or that you left ashore or that you've been thinking about but haven't got around to buying :-)
As we all know, Murphy lurks in the far corners of all cruising sailboats and is all too anxious to show you up for the dummy you are (you took off WHAT TOOL?).
That said, over the years I've managed to concentrate most-used tools into a small plastic ammunition box. Some day I'll inventory them. This box is what I grab first for just about any onboard task, and in about 75-80% of the cases contains everything I need.
The other 20-25% of the time I need all the tools and toolboxes on the boat (which are more than any sane sailor would normally carry), plus tools and parts and supplies left ashore :-(
The diabolical thing about this is that you can't always know what you will need until you get far into a job....too far to turn back. This is when the cursing begins in earnest....not the "light" variety of expletives like when you skin your knuckles :-)
Bill
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