As my voyage over the horizon slowly nears next summer, I am going back over my
gear lists and
storage requirements. I will be having several crew changes for each of the
passage legs, so I'm thinking of providing individual bags for personal items that may need to fit into the vessel's ditch bag. I'm going to be providing this smaller bag, plus a couple of other bags for personal
gear such as dive
equipment (the stuff each person considers they must carry that the
boat doesn't already), all
clothing and hygiene items, foulies, seaboots, and other personal choice gear (art supplies, tunes,
books, cameras, etc.).
The personal ditch bag will store things like cash, passport/visas,
medical needs (with prescriptions), an item or two of warm
clothing, and stuff that the individual may personally want to have in the event of an evacuation or disaster. This bag will be added, at the start of the voyage leg, to the primary ditch bag for the entire crew, so there is only one bag to have to absolutely survive. Or maybe two for true redundancy.
There are all sorts of lists available for the boat's ditch bag, but none that I've seen for the things each individual should provide from their own stores. My question is to what personal and necessary items would you include in your own waterproof, and small, bag to open in the
liferaft or beach that you end up on. Again, this is the personal stuff, NOT personal
rescue beacons (although, a
cell phone might not be a bad idea in the right places). What's in your wallet (as the credit card advertisement with rampaging Vikings suggests)?
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