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12-04-2012, 17:47
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#196
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Do… or do not

Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: in paradise
Boat: Sundeer 64
Posts: 13,306
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Re: The Cruisers Essentials List
How about the SAS survival guide? It's an essential item for those roughing it out

Nick.
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12-04-2012, 17:57
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#197
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Hurricane Highway
Boat: O'Day 28
Posts: 3,916
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Re: The Cruisers Essentials List
Quote:
Originally Posted by Wotname
Single bucket with metal sextant taped to the bottom for ballast or two buckets taped side by side for stability?
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This is great.
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12-04-2012, 18:14
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#198
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CF Adviser
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: sausalito
Boat: 14 meter sloop
Posts: 7,260
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Re: The Cruisers Essentials List
Quote:
Originally Posted by LeaseOnLife
A piece of paper will suffice! no need for a log book !?
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In that case, the piece of paper is your logbook. Yes? Just a shabby one.
For my part, I can't imagine sailing being half as much fun if I wasn't embellishing the action in my log.
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cruising is entirely about showing up--in boat shoes.
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12-04-2012, 18:25
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#199
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Hurricane Highway
Boat: O'Day 28
Posts: 3,916
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Re: The Cruisers Essentials List
Quote:
Originally Posted by s/v Jedi
How about the SAS survival guide? It's an essential item for those roughing it out

Nick.
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Pussies!
I eat smoked southern snee snake jerky 4 snacks.
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12-04-2012, 18:26
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Posts: 15,133
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Re: The Cruisers Essentials List
Newt, regarding fire extinguishers, i don't think you can have too many of them. If there's not one within reach, you need one more.
I'm quite happy never to have had a boat fire yet, but I've had to deal with several on land and in cars. A 'simple' fire like a trash fire or stove fire doubles in size every 30 seconds, so it is Real Damn Important to knock it down NOW NOW NOW if you have one. And if one extinguisher is bad, or on the wrong side of the fire, or doesn't get it all out, you want another one in hand real fast.
All in all I call them cheap protection and for some reason, they seem to follow me home. A little while back I found four perfectly good "liter" size dry powders in the trash bin at the boatyard, someone just decided they wanted newer ones. Kept one, gave three to friends for their homes/cars. Pressure gauge said they were still good, so who's going to argue?
I tend to mount them in odd corners, where they won't be fouled or be banged into. I find unplanned fires to be terribly inconvenient, and the chance of winding up in a burn ward....Nuh-uh, no thanks, don't want to go there. Extinguishers are cheap.
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12-04-2012, 18:30
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#201
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CF Adviser
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: sausalito
Boat: 14 meter sloop
Posts: 7,260
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Re: The Cruisers Essentials List
Quote:
Originally Posted by hellosailor
I tend to mount them in odd corners, where they won't be fouled or be banged into. I find unplanned fires to be terribly inconvenient, and the chance of winding up in a burn ward....Nuh-uh, no thanks, don't want to go there. Extinguishers are cheap.
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I mount mine at floor level near the doorway in each cabin. I figure that if someone wakes up and its smokey, the best place to fumble around for an extinguisher is at the floor.
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13-04-2012, 07:10
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#202
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Senior Cruiser

Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Coos Bay, Oregon
Boat: Valiant 40 (1975)
Posts: 4,073
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Re: The Cruisers Essentials List
Leatherman is on the list, specified in "hand tools". Mounting the fire ext at floor level is a good idea. I also have a automatic- halo type above my auxiliary. One should be in the galley for quick access for sure.
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13-04-2012, 07:42
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#203
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Do… or do not

Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: in paradise
Boat: Sundeer 64
Posts: 13,306
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Re: The Cruisers Essentials List
Quote:
Originally Posted by s/v Beth
Leatherman is on the list, specified in "hand tools". Mounting the fire ext at floor level is a good idea. I also have a automatic- halo type above my auxiliary. One should be in the galley for quick access for sure.
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Well, here's my ideas that sound weird to most again (but I'm right of course  ) In the galley, the fire extinguisher is the last resort item; first option would be a fire blanket, second any piece of damp cloth.
A squirt with a fire extinguisher can make things much worse when it hits burning oil in a pan for example.
They sell these in the chandlery (Plastimo):
ciao!
Nick.
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13-04-2012, 08:15
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#204
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Houston, TX
Boat: Beneteau 461 47'
Posts: 927
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Quote:
Originally Posted by s/v Jedi
Well, here's my ideas that sound weird to most again (but I'm right of course  ) In the galley, the fire extinguisher is the last resort item; first option would be a fire blanket, second any piece of damp cloth.
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Good point Nick! You always see fire-blankets installed on the wall near stoves - not only boats, but holiday cottages, student halls; the list is endless!  .. well, not quite endless, but you catch my drift..
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13-04-2012, 09:11
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#205
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Senior Cruiser

Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Coos Bay, Oregon
Boat: Valiant 40 (1975)
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Re: The Cruisers Essentials List
Nice looking galley Nick. Wish mine were that organised.
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13-04-2012, 12:13
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#206
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Hurricane Highway
Boat: O'Day 28
Posts: 3,916
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Re: The Cruisers Essentials List

Quote:
Originally Posted by s/v Beth
Nice looking galley Nick. Wish mine were that organised.
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And large. There's one difference between Nick's Sundeer 64 and my Sunburn 25. That's probably real teak too.
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13-04-2012, 13:41
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#207
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Do… or do not

Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: in paradise
Boat: Sundeer 64
Posts: 13,306
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Re: The Cruisers Essentials List
Quote:
Originally Posted by Blue Crab
And large. There's one difference between Nick's Sundeer 64 and my Sunburn 25. That's probably real teak too. 
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Ehrm guys... that pic is a comparably smallish Beneteau 393...

Nick.
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13-04-2012, 13:53
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#208
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S/V rubber ducky
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Florida cruising currently
Boat: Hunter 410
Posts: 18,973
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Re: The Cruisers Essentials List
Quote:
Originally Posted by Bash
For my part, I can't imagine sailing being half as much fun if I wasn't embellishing the action in my log.
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How much time needs to go by before when you read the log again that you actually believe the entry is true?
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13-04-2012, 14:02
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#209
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: New Mexico and our S/V is in Fort Pierce..hope to be there soon and sailing.
Boat: S/V"KAREN", Pearson Alberg 35. an achilles dingy, 2 kyaks.
Posts: 202
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Re: The Cruisers Essentials List
Quote:
Originally Posted by Cavalier
Good point Nick! You always see fire-blankets installed on the wall near stoves - not only boats, but holiday cottages, student halls; the list is endless!  .. well, not quite endless, but you catch my drift..
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.....Lovely galley....just lovely.....ahhhhhhhh
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13-04-2012, 14:11
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#210
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Do… or do not

Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: in paradise
Boat: Sundeer 64
Posts: 13,306
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Re: The Cruisers Essentials List
Okay, okay, here's a pic of the galley aboard Jedi:
yes that's me in between the women; here I sent them away so I could do the finishing touch:
Clean up time (I'm not around then of course  )
Okay, now let's skip the talk about galleys and back to newt's list
cheers,
Nick.
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