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16-04-2011, 08:12
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Senior Cruiser
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Re: Most Useful Repair Stuff to Carry on Board
I wouldn’t use dental floss, cotton, nylon or monofilament threads for sail repair.
Instead, carry a proper UVR polyester thread (V-69 or V-92 weight).
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16-04-2011, 17:44
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#47
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: between the devil and the deep blue sea
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Re: Most Useful Repair Stuff to Carry on Board
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Originally Posted by GordMay
I wouldn’t use dental floss, cotton, nylon or monofilament threads for sail repair.
Instead, carry a proper UVR polyester thread (V-69 or V-92 weight). |
3M + insignia, except that with a sewing machine you can hoist immediately (much as you cannot work offshore, unless you have a cat).
3M will work well offshore, but it takes 24h before you can hoist (provided you carry FC)
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17-04-2011, 01:42
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Join Date: Apr 2011
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Re: Most Useful Repair Stuff to Carry on Board
Scratch. Anything can be made from it.
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17-04-2011, 04:13
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Re: Most Useful Repair Stuff to Carry on Board
A gun.
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17-04-2011, 04:56
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: being planted in Jacksonville Fl
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Re: Most Useful Repair Stuff to Carry on Board
Quote:
Originally Posted by David_Old_Jersey
A gun.
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Bullets. Use the lead to make various plugs etc. Use the powder to stop bleeding becuse all sailors are Ramboo what-to-bes.
just starting trouble Dave aren't you 
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17-04-2011, 05:51
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#51
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Location: Kingston, Ontario
Boat: Saugeen Witch, Colvin design vessel name: Witchcraft
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Re: Most Useful Repair Stuff to Carry on Board
A bicycle inner tire tube came in handy for us when the shaft ended it's association with the transmission. It was used to stop the ingress of water until the gale abated and we could be hauled out of the water. Now we always carry one...never know what else it might prove useful at.
Fair Winds
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17-04-2011, 13:04
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#52
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Best thing I've ever used - 5200.
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17-04-2011, 18:29
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Me: Hong Kong, Boat: Turkey
Boat: Lagoon 380 - Times like these. Port: Mooloolaba, Australia
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Re: Most Useful Repair Stuff to Carry on Board
Parts for the head.......... If I'm working on the boat it's usually on the damn toilets! 
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18-09-2019, 19:34
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Join Date: Sep 2019
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Re: Most Useful Repair Stuff to Carry on Board
First time out for the summer, launched boat and went to my favorite Cove for the night, next morning my 4-cylinder Volvo Penta wouldn't start so I pulled distributor cap and discovered spring completely rusted and disintegrated I got a ballpoint pen I had on board and remove the spring installed it in distributor cap and returned safely to dock so I never leave the dock without a ballpoint pen on board
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18-09-2019, 20:13
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#55
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Join Date: Apr 2011
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Re: Most Useful Repair Stuff to Carry on Board
A length of bicycle chain to attach to a new halyard at mast head to get it to fall down inside the mast. Then use wire coat hanger with bent hook at end to fish halyard out of exit box.
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18-09-2019, 20:18
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Join Date: Jun 2016
Location: Australia
Boat: Milkraft 60 ex trawler
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Re: Most Useful Repair Stuff to Carry on Board
Most Useful Repair Stuff to Carry on Board?
Everything.
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18-09-2019, 23:39
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Join Date: Sep 2019
Location: North Carolina
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Re: Most Useful Repair Stuff to Carry on Board
You have carried the useful item except one this might sound silly to you
take potatoes with yourself not as an emergency food source they fit as an emergency plug If a through-hull fitting breaks or the hose pops off and the fitting is jammed open, you can push a potato up against it, give it a half-turn, and instantly shut off the flow of water
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19-09-2019, 02:39
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Moderator and Certifiable Refitter
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Re: Most Useful Repair Stuff to Carry on Board
Nice to see an old thread resurrected after 8 years
Most useful item used to repair stuff - a head; the one of the neck, not the other one!
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