tiercel
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A service kit for the heads with all the nasty bits of rubber, o rings, valves etc is fairly essential and surprisingly reassuring when strange liquids and smells pervade the boat!
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michael_w
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Reged: 08/10/2005
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Loc: South London
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Oi! Island Water World in St Lucia came up trumps with a Henderson Mk V spares kit. ordered over SailMail.
By the way, the diaphragms fail long before the valves do.
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LadyJessie
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Reged: 21/11/2006
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Loc: the Med
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Your list is pretty good and I would set off with that. You do not say where you are heading. My experience is that the more you get into the developing (and even underdeveloped); the less spares you need. In the developing world everything you need can be manufactured and often to a higher standard than that 'original part'.
In my experience; if you stay in the 'western' world you can get spares shipped in easily. If you are in the 'developing world'; spares can be manufactured. So I would not worry too much. I would just carry lots of the small things like washers, cable ties, duct tape, lots of screws and bolts. For the rest, it can be found.
Let me just end with a tale from one of my good friends who is a professional yacht skipper of some 25 years: "you really only need duct tape and WD40 on a yacht. The rule is: if it moves and it shouldn't: duct tape. If it doesn't move and it should: WD40". Very true in my experience.
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Morgana
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Loc: East Coast
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How about a small piece of sailcloth and a sailmakers palm and thread..... handy for emergency repairs......
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Jonny_H
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Thats my kind of rule!!
We are headed to Australia via the Panama Canal so apart from some Pacific Islands everywhere is fairly developed.
We have loads of spinnaker fabric on board and some sticky backed sail cloth - may nip to our local sailmakers today and get some proper cloth and a palm - thanks.
Jonny
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mocruising
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Reged: 21/03/2004
Posts: 377
Loc: Corfu/Qatar
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Before we left the UK in 2004 we stocked up and probably spent £4000 on "Essential" spares. We need not have bothered in the Med. There is an arguement with modern comms. that where ever you are a courier service will be able to find you so don't over burden yourself. We still have a waterline about 1 cm lower than it should be due to over burdening ourselves. One day we may be in the middle of nowhere. Its amazing how many people we have helped out over the years with that bit of kit that I did not throw away. We carry everything including the kitchen sink.
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Blueboatman
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Reged: 10/07/2005
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Loc: London
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I would advise some sort of spare cooker-even if it is only a small screw-on camping gaz one...contact adhesive for all your sailrepairs,a sewing machine for all the extras that you will need to make as it gets hotter,and a full set of taps and dies and some threaded rod for all those seized fasteners that you will have to bust out.
It is not possible to have too much epoxy,sikaflex and duct tape imo with which to improvise repairs...
I love the mantra 'if it breaks and you can do without it,sling it',thus your boat gets simpler,lighter and cheaper to maintain. From experience I refer to inboard engines,wcs,pumped water systems,electronics and refridgeration.
But then I be a bit of a sailing luddite on 'ere!
Seriously the one thing that would worry me most would be breaking the gooseneck and or roller furling drums,furling lines and swivels..
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snowleopard
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Loc: Cornwall
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I'd second your choice of an alternator. When preparing for the ARC it was the most common failure with at least 3 boats needing replacements.
Spares for the head are vital. If you have a Par/Jabsco type consider a complete pump assembly.
Do you have a pressurised water system? If so, can you get water out of the tanks if the pump fails?
It's always a good idea to stow bottled water in addition to the tanks.
I fitted a second set of nav lights and have never regretted it - 10w when sailing, 25w when motoring and a spare instantly available if a bulb goes.
As many ways as you can muster to get juice into the batteries. Nothing spoils your day as much as a flat battery (except perhaps a hole in the hull).
Assume your steering will fail and plan for it. I once had to sail 800 miles with a broken quadrant which wasn't funny.
I have big windows. To cover the possibility of one getting stove in I carried a couple of solid bars with bolts and wingnuts to secure a bunk board over the hole.
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Swagman
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See - told you.
JOHN
PS If you are getting (good idea) more sail repair stuff - forget the palm and get one of those relatively new fangled things that look like an awl but has an integral bobbin and a needle that can be pushed through almost anything. You'll soon see you can sew almost as good as a machine - albeit much much slower - and certainly easier and better than simply using needle and thread.
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Jonny_H
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I'd second your choice of an alternator. When preparing for the ARC it was the most common failure with at least 3 boats needing replacements.
Trying to source one at the moment!
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Spares for the head are vital. If you have a Par/Jabsco type consider a complete pump assembly.
We have two RM69 heads, and have put new pumps on both of them and kept the old pumps and have rebuilt them both with a spares kit.
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Do you have a pressurised water system? If so, can you get water out of the tanks if the pump fails?
We have a second identical pump on order which will swap straight in - we also have a hand pump which we currently use with 5 litre bottles, but have a special pipe extension ready to allow it to reach the tanks.
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It's always a good idea to stow bottled water in addition to the tanks.
Yep - per the above bit, we intend to take plenty of bottled water!
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I fitted a second set of nav lights and have never regretted it - 10w when sailing, 25w when motoring and a spare instantly available if a bulb goes.
We're fitting LED mast head bulbs which should have a longer life (bought, just needs fitting) - and keeping the old ones for spares.
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As many ways as you can muster to get juice into the batteries. Nothing spoils your day as much as a flat battery (except perhaps a hole in the hull).
Solar, wind genny and alternator - trying our best!
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Assume your steering will fail and plan for it. I once had to sail 800 miles with a broken quadrant which wasn't funny.
We went for a Hydrovane for this very reason when choosing our self steering.
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I have big windows. To cover the possibility of one getting stove in I carried a couple of solid bars with bolts and wingnuts to secure a bunk board over the hole.
We only have small windows, but have sufficient 1/2 inch ply to cover all of them if needed.
Wow - looks like we're not too far off after all!
Thanks
Jonny
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