On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:37:40 -0400, Gene Kearns
wrote:

On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 01:30:28 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing penned the
following well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

|150' of 1/2 brained line

I usually keep the full brained stuff on hand.....

I blame Agent's spell checker. :)

On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 03:20:30 +0000, Larry wrote:

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote in
:

Have I left anything out?



Got a suture kit in case you slice your skin open? Some friends got cut
open and used theirs a while back while 100 miles offshore in the Atlantic
off Georgia. Sure came in handy and is relatively cheap...

His wife simply sewed him back up and he's fine.

She told me sails don't bitch nearly as much as he does.....

Suturing is an aquired skill if it's to be done properly.

The areas I boat, it's not really needed.

On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:27:36 GMT, (Richard
Casady) wrote:

On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 01:30:28 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:

What with the fun day I had, I got to thinking about my ditch bag
tonight and what I could do to improve it. Coincidently, I was also
thinking about emergency equipment and what I need to do to improve
that.

So far, I think my ditch bag is pretty much set the way I like it.
It's small and carries my EPIRB, spare VHF handheld, SOLAS aerial
flares, smoke, two each red, yellow, orange glow sticks, protien bars,
32 ounces of water, mirror, signal flag, a Leatherman Super Tool,
three space blankets, my "special" medical kit with lotion (SPF 30)
and three small towels for emergency purposes.

I think that's fairly complete for a ditch bag - anybody add anything
that I haven't thought of?

As to emergency equipment, I have a spare bilge pump that can be used
to pump out other boats or as a spare for my boat (or at least stem
the rising tide as it were), four PFDs (Type II), two Type III PFD
(auto), two throw bags, block and tackle to hang off the T-Top to get
somebody out of the water if necessary, two Type IV throwables, spare
boarding ladder (collapsable), two lined light weight jackets
(Canadian Armed Forces actually - waterproof too), 150' of 1/2 brained
line and of course extra medical supplies along with the emergency bag
with all the emergency stuff.

Have I left anything out?

Is that EPIRB in addition to the one in the rack topside, where it
will automatically float free and switch on, if the boat sinks. Do you
need a GPS to give the rescuers an exact position? Close might not be
good enough on a dark and stormy night.

I don't have an automatic launch EPIRB - just the portable unit that
can be set to auto, but it's on manual.