The list from posts.....Tried to not double similar ideas:
Stern
shower
Davits
Pan lid
storage: We put leather straps on the inside of cabinet doors.
Tip out or swing out garbage container.
Shut off valves with a length of hose on the bottom of the
Racor filters to make
draining them easier
Rechargeable AA and AAA batteries used exclusively.
Small 10w LED floodlights around the outside of the
boat and in the
engine room.
Remote control for the
anchor winch.
Integrated
wifi with
Internet and NEMA data.
Luci lights - great little
inflatable solar-charged led lanterns.
Exhaust temperature
alarm
AIS –
Garmin inReach -
family and friends love tracking our trips on this.
Automatic lights in the lockers
Modified my preventer lines so that they could be attached at the mid-ship as opposed to the aft.
Stack Pack
Chain Stopper
Electric (220v)
winch for hauling dinghy aboard
Steel hook plate welded into armpit of Bruce
anchor.
Omnia
stove top
oven has really earned its keep for us!
Dedicated flopper-stopper outrigger pole and lines set-up (don't use the boom)
also gets regular use
Mounted the
salon table on a Lagun swiveling table mount.
Large but thin-gauge stainless hook mounted on the back of the stem fitting, at
the peak of the
anchor locker. An easy place to hang full garbage bags and
recycling
Full powered davit so we don’t have to pull a 1000lb
tender uphill against the
lean of the boat.
High on the convenience list is my 2,000W
inverter.
LED garden lights as
deck lights
4 foot garden cane for dipping the
fuel tank.
Sterling
battery monitor, completely changed the way we look after the batteries.
Good quality
stainless steel copper bottomed pans with lids
Arch on the boat for
solar panels and hanging the dinghy
I put a
remote oil change system on the
engine so you're not taking the filter off
horizontally
Cockpit enclosure and screens
Engle 40 on rails under the chart table as a dedicated
freezer.
Dutchman
boom brake
Raspberry Pi running openplotter/signalk. With a hifiberry hifi amp.
Dorades that REALLY work!
Milwaukee 02170-20 1/2" cordless right-angle drill with an adapter to fit
winches. Runs the main up in a jiffy and lifts the dinghy onto the
deck.
Bimini built of
solar panels No
fabric.
Fully enclosed double "rocking" anchor rollers on a short
bowsprit
Both
spinnaker and spare halyards tied into continuous loop.
Hardtop for my
dodger with totally removable Makrolon windows
Watermaker.
Engel Fridge/Freezer.
PVC rack in starboard lazarett that nestles three 5 gallon buckets. Bucket
holds folding chairs and other occasional use stuff. Two typically hold
garbage, with tight fitting lids.
Icemaker.
Mosquito nets that drop over the open hatches.
Heavy weight stainless jack chain on oar locks, drops right through the holder. Used the same chain to weight the mosquito nets.
Stack pack
sail cover.
LED
lighting
Lewmar folding
wheel makes space in the
cockpit
Self tailing winch on the main
halyard
Engle fridge built into cockpit locker , cold drinks at hand
Polystyrene floatation noodle (childrens' floatation pool toy) cord through the noodle and suspend horizontally below the
rubbing strip on the outside of the
hull.
LED mastlight with photocell
Shallow trays in most lockers. No digging.
Steps on cockpit. Old knees.
Transom extensions. Much better dinghy boarding.
Valves for winterizing.
Full batten main
Sensor lights in dark cupboards & lockers
2
windlass remotes.
Stainless Steel lifting system on the Stern for lifting the 9.8
outboard.
Main downhaul, fastened to the headboard slide and reaching to the third reef
tack cringle. There I spliced in a length of bungee cord to keep it taught
….allows one to assist the last few meters of sail on its way down.
Dewalt wet-dry 12v vacuum
Infrared thermometer
Flexible socket wrench extensions
Mid-ship
cleats on the
Genoa Track
Replaced the rubber
rubrail with an aluminium section used on dinghy gunwales,
no more black streaks down the
hull and also leak-free.
Electric
lift pump so much easier to bleed
A remote
coolant overflow bottle/expansion tank connected to the pressure cap,
helps knowing your
Heat exchanger ACTUALLY has
coolant in it.
Cheap led strip lighting for the engine room,
LANOCOTE spray for spraying things you dont want to corrode
Foot pumps. The most serious water saver I can imagine.
Separate spigot for seawater,
Each
cabin ventilation system
A ‘hook-lock’ on the cockpit door
Cutout of transom to make it so much easier to get in and out of dingy
Replaced reefing hook with a snap shackle.
Sailmaker put a strong strop through the reefing cringles with a round SS ring on
either end. Easier to get on the reefing hook than the cringle.
For
cabin lighting hung small flashlights with soft shackles in convenient locations
(eg over the chart table, over the stove) LED flashlights with red or white
light.
Work well, cheap and have a flashlight handy to grab.
Aere Inflatable Beach Roller for a fender when tying along a quay especially one
with pilings.
Hockey
puck light on Amazon, Has a bright flashlight, all around light and low
power red light and you can clip it to hang anywhere. Rechargeable
Silicone sheet to cut some circles to put over the canisters of alcohol
stove when
not in use to cut down on alcohol
evaporation.
Telltales cut from a black plastic garbage bag, they are better and lighter than
other materials, you can cut them as broad or as narrow and as long as you
like. Black shows thru sail.