Stuff to Bring on Long Trips
- Business
- floppy disks
- TWO computers, port expander, floppy, and email cable
- Checkbooks
- Bank deposit envelopes
- File of article ideas
- Stamps
- Record voice mail message
- Scuba gear (BCs, regs, dive knife, weight belts & weights, wet suits)
- Binos
- Beach chairs
- Hats
- A couple of disposable underwater cameras
- Bathing suits
- Dell Pod, charger, modulator, modulator power cord, and Dell Pod charger cord
- Consumables: check and buy as needed:
- Outboard oil
- Hypoid oil
- Engine oil: 24 qts
- Engine oil filters: 4
- ATF
- Racor filters: 8
- Secondary filters: 2
- Engine impellors and seal rebuild kit
- Oil absorb blankets
- Antifreeze
- 5200, 4200, 101
- Varnish
- Acetone
- 333 or similar
- Paint brushes
- Masking tape
- Sandpaper
- Wire coathangers
- Hacksaw blades
- Saber saw blades
- Marine-tex
- WD-40
- FSR or similar
- White grease/Lubriplate
- Axle grease
- Locktite
- Diesel biocide
- Dingy repair chemicals
- Tools: angle grinder, drills, saber saw
- Frying pan
- Kids clothes, hats, in plastic, a/r
- All college files
- Pressure cooker book and stuff needed to make good recipes
- Our various medicines
- MB’s Softlips
- Towels etc
- Jack and Marybeth’s clothes, in plastic a/r
- Jack and Marybeth’s spare glasses
- Guitar plus music (words, tabs, or something)
- FW gear – Jack, Marybeth and kids
- Vasoline
- Baby powder for MB
- DVD player and DVDs
- Those two-layer thick shirts for MB
- Empty yoghurt tubs for varnishing
- Games, playing cards, chess
- Headphones plus ¼ to 1/8 adapter
- CASH! Lots. Remote islands don’t like credit cards
- Carry-bags for showers et al
- Sandals for everyone
- Cell phone + charger in baggie
- Razor & charger
- Blankets et al
- Sunglasses
- Digital Camera AND USB cable
- Passports
- CDs
- Scuba C-cards
- Baking stuff:
- Colander
- Plates
- Rolling pin
- Pie dish and cake glass pan
Sea Checklist – Before Going to Sea
Engine
Check oil and filter
Check fuel filters
Check transmission fluid
Check battery electrolyte levels
Check stuffing box
Check/change impeller
Put oil-absorb in drip pan
Check antifreeze level
Clean raw water strainer
Fill both fuel tanks, with biocide as required
Lash down jerry jugs
Pack pump in dingy for lifeboat use
Calibrate mechanical clock
Check and rate watch
WD-40 tools
Provision
Get ice
Take out trash
Put baking soda in icebox
Fill water tank and water jugs
Stow hose aboard, with squirter end
Bay leaves in rice/flour, etc
Restrainers on glasses
Rig swim ladder deployment system
Tie down pelican hooks on lifeline gates
Rig jacklines
Securely lash anchors
Secure hawsepipes
Rig working jib and snatch blocks
Turn all 4 ventilators aft
Charge drill
Charge VHFs
Pound on all fire extinguishers
Crew Briefing
Bring - Assume everything you bring will get soaked!
- Safety Harness
- Foul weather gear
- CDs
- Medicines - and let’s talk about them
- Passport
- 2 copies of passport front page
- A very good hat - not just a baseball cap, maybe two, with chin strap
- Long-sleeved shirt in case of too much sun
- Snorkeling gear
Briefing:
- Make yourself at home; dig through lockers, etc etc
- Falling overboard:
- Be CLIPPED ON anytime you’re out of the cockpit, and even in the cockpit after dark It’s better to leave it on all the time
- Hold on all of the time. No peeing overboard.
- Swim ladder deployment system
- How to stop the boat, start the engine, and haul someone aboard
- Health:
- Concentrate on drinking lots of liquids
- Consider the sun! Don't get burned, be wary of heatstroke
- Ships:
- Spotlight
- White flare
- Radio
- Radar use
- Identifying lights
- Fire extinguishers
- Leave pressure water off
- Trash management
- Sea cocks and wood plugs
- Liferaft, panic bag and flares
- Using the pressurized sea water in the galley
- Make log entries at reasonable, frequent, intervals, esp barometer
- Bilge pumps - upper pump means TROUBLE!
- Discuss Sea Sense