.........toolbox on your boat?

I carry over and beyond the basic tools plus a box of various stainless
steel hardware (screws, nuts, bolts, washers, etc), a spool of electrical
wiring and connectors/crimper, a 12v soldering iron and wire, a prop wrench
and replacement prop, an emergency belt as well as various engine fluids.

Sometimes none of these items will save you (as witnessed by my overheating
incident this summer). However, it is nice to know some basic emergency
repairs can be made and I don't have to bring tools to the boat when I work
on it.

So what is in your boat toolbox?

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So what is in your boat toolbox?



Which one? The electrical toolbox? The plumbing toolbox? The sailmaker's
toolbox? The deck rigging toolbox? The diesel engine toolbox? The hull
maintenance toolbox? The AC&R toolbox? The electronics toolbox? You're
gonna have to be more specific. We took out the toolboxes and matching
arrays of spare parts boxes, all properly identified of course, and layed
them on the dock. A 41' ketch popped out of the water by at LEAST 5
inches!

After the race, we put them all back so we don't go adrift "out there"
beyond Towboat/US' reach.....

Oh, we came in second in the cruiser class cheating like this...(c;

Larry
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Is sending glassware via USPS considered "baiting"?

Don't know how to answer this very well but under the front seats of my
little Chris Craft, I ahve a generic 140 pc. tool set, with a goodly
range of screwdrivers. Vice-grips are a must. wire repair kit w.small
roll of 10 ga. and 14 ga. wire. big crescent wrench, hammer, ohm
meter, roll of duct tape, and roll of electrical tape. spare fuel
filter. And even though I've never needed to add any, I carry an extra
quart of motor oil. Oh yes. extra light bulbs for the trailer.

Plenty to do emergency stuff on a lowly Scorpion 169 w, 3.0L


JimH wrote:
........toolbox on your boat?

I carry over and beyond the basic tools plus a box of various stainless
steel hardware (screws, nuts, bolts, washers, etc), a spool of electrical
wiring and connectors/crimper, a 12v soldering iron and wire, a prop wrench
and replacement prop, an emergency belt as well as various engine fluids.

Sometimes none of these items will save you (as witnessed by my overheating
incident this summer). However, it is nice to know some basic emergency
repairs can be made and I don't have to bring tools to the boat when I work
on it.

So what is in your boat toolbox?

The basics... screw drivers, sockets, open end wrenches, vice grips, duct &
electrical tape, wire. Also I carry one of those plastic ratchet type clamps
for woodworking. I have a twin engine yamaha jet, and I've been told that if
one engine quits, you need to limp back at no-wake speed so water doesn't
enter thru the intake of the dead engine... winding up in the cylinders. The
clamp is so I can pinch off the cooling line intake, and then run the good
engine at a decent speed to get back.

I'm sure though, when/if I break down, I won't have the right tool or part.
Thank goodness for two engines.

--Mike

" JimH" not telling you @ pffftt.com wrote in message
...
........toolbox on your boat?

I carry over and beyond the basic tools plus a box of various stainless
steel hardware (screws, nuts, bolts, washers, etc), a spool of electrical
wiring and connectors/crimper, a 12v soldering iron and wire, a prop
wrench and replacement prop, an emergency belt as well as various engine
fluids.

Sometimes none of these items will save you (as witnessed by my
overheating incident this summer). However, it is nice to know some basic
emergency repairs can be made and I don't have to bring tools to the boat
when I work on it.

So what is in your boat toolbox?

Generic 60 pc. toolset.(wrenches, sockets, screwdrivers, etc)
Duct Tape
Sheet aluminum to patch blown exhaust boots
Bundle of rags
Duct tape
48" zip ties for emergency drive belts
Electric kit(fuses, tape, wire, connectors and crimper, etc)
Lamp kit
Duct tape
Spare Mercruiser Thunderbolt IV ignition module
Carb clean spray
WD40
Fluids(oil, coolant, P/S and trim/tilt fluid)
Spare oil filter
Spare plug wire set
Full set drive belts
Duct tape
Oh, I almost forgot....
Duct tape
JR





JimH wrote:
........toolbox on your boat?

I carry over and beyond the basic tools plus a box of various stainless
steel hardware (screws, nuts, bolts, washers, etc), a spool of electrical
wiring and connectors/crimper, a 12v soldering iron and wire, a prop wrench
and replacement prop, an emergency belt as well as various engine fluids.

Sometimes none of these items will save you (as witnessed by my overheating
incident this summer). However, it is nice to know some basic emergency
repairs can be made and I don't have to bring tools to the boat when I work
on it.

So what is in your boat toolbox?




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" JimH" not telling you @ pffftt.com wrote in message
...
........toolbox on your boat?

I carry over and beyond the basic tools plus a box of various stainless
steel hardware (screws, nuts, bolts, washers, etc), a spool of electrical
wiring and connectors/crimper, a 12v soldering iron and wire, a prop
wrench and replacement prop, an emergency belt as well as various engine
fluids.

Sometimes none of these items will save you (as witnessed by my
overheating incident this summer). However, it is nice to know some basic
emergency repairs can be made and I don't have to bring tools to the boat
when I work on it.

So what is in your boat toolbox?


Basic wrenchs and screw drivers, plus butt connectors and tape and a VOM
meter. Some electrical wire and spare bearings and seal for the trailer.

" JimH" not telling you @ pffftt.com wrote in message
...
........toolbox on your boat?

I carry over and beyond the basic tools plus a box of various stainless
steel hardware (screws, nuts, bolts, washers, etc), a spool of electrical
wiring and connectors/crimper, a 12v soldering iron and wire, a prop
wrench and replacement prop, an emergency belt as well as various engine
fluids.

So what is in your boat toolbox?


Pretty much all the above except the prop wrench is a giant sized pipe
wrench almost 3 feet long. (for emergency use only). Also, a Volvo diesel
engine kit consisting of fuel, oil and air filters, belts, two new spare
injectors and water pump impellers. Two spare Nibral ( 4 bladed 30x30)
props held in a holder bolted in the engine room. Damn things weigh about 75
lbs each.

Two rolls of Duct Tape.

Eisboch

So what is in your boat toolbox?

Two boxes. One regular toolbox, kept in the head's vanity cabinet for
reasonably quick access. The other is a plastic ammo-box style one down in
the engine compartment between the two engines. The stringers are spaced
'just right' for keeping it in place. There's also a generic 100pc socket
set stowed in a cabin locker.

The engine box has spare impellers, hose clamps, volt meter, long
screwdrivers, duct and silicone tape, a hammer and the larger box wrenches
needed for mounts and such. The regular box has various screwdrivers,
pliers, and the same stuff you've got listed in yours.