Thomas Wentworth wrote:
Ok, cruising people ... here is your assignment.

On every cruising sailboat there is a tool kit. Just for fun; what is in
that tool kit?

Name the tools, how many, what kind, what they do, all the gotta haves, how
do you carry them and where, ....

It would take about an hour to list them all I suspect.

Evan Gatehouse

Hmmm...

Haven't heard one mention of "The Universal Wrench & Socket Set"*.

Better known as: Vice Grip Pliers.


* AKA "Polish Socket Set" for the politically incorrect.

On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 20:02:38 -0800, Steve Thrasher
wrote:

Haven't heard one mention of "The Universal Wrench & Socket Set"*.

Better known as: Vice Grip Pliers.

Posted 6/13/06:

"Basic set, easy to reach: 4 way combination screw driver, 8 inch
crescent wrench, small and large vice grips, needle nose pliers,
utility knife w/extra blades, WD-40 and a roll of white vinyl rigging
tape."

Wayne.B wrote:

On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 20:02:38 -0800, Steve Thrasher
wrote:


Haven't heard one mention of "The Universal Wrench & Socket Set"*.

Better known as: Vice Grip Pliers.


Posted 6/13/06:

"Basic set, easy to reach: 4 way combination screw driver, 8 inch
crescent wrench, small and large vice grips, needle nose pliers,
utility knife w/extra blades, WD-40 and a roll of white vinyl rigging
tape."


add

Wire cutter and nicopress tool.
And a small "come-along"