It depends a lot on how far from home you will be cruising, availability of parts away from home, the tools you carry on board, and your ability to understand what is needed and how to do the work.Egregious wrote:
Aside from filters and impellors, what kind of spare parts do you carry?
I'm assuming gaskets, belts, spare injector(s) etc.
How often have you had to use them?
I think I carry all that except the bicycle parts, plus I probably have the fittings and clamps Doc is missing.*Doc wrote:
I'll add to the above...A/C pump, shower sump pump, hose washers, cable TV splitters and double male fittings, Water/gas separator filter for dinghy OB, fuses and all sorts of light bulbs, hose clamps, electrical connectors and strippers/crimpers, ss screws and bolts, bicycle spokes, bilge pump and float switches. and on and on...
***********Good point- What good are spares if you are missing a tool or fitting to make the swap?Jay N wrote
Within 3 months, I had replaced the running parts with the spares for two main reasons:* To find out how to do it (and to make sure I had the tools to do it), and to make sure that all of the spares fit and worked.* The*removed parts were rebuilt/reconditioned and brought back onboard as the new spares.
*2bucks wrote:
None of my spares are half worn out like the twin engine guys are.Most are painted to match, (if needed) and sealed airtight in seal a meal bags until needed.![]()
2bucks- Thats a good one.** Got to love your single!* JohnP
Yeah, but you have to put your spares on while your boat's rolling and pitching like a son of a bitch in a seaway and the current's carrying you*toward the rocks.* The twin guys just keep going and make the fix in the peace and quiet and no-pressure, no-urgency calm of the slip.2bucks wrote:
None of my spares are half worn out like the twin engine guys are.![]()
Yeah, but you have to put your spares on while your boat's rolling and pitching like a son of a bitch in a seaway and the current's carrying you*toward the rocks.* The twin guys just keep going and make the fix in the peace and quiet and no-pressure, no-urgency calm of the slip.Marin wrote:
2bucks wrote:
None of my spares are half worn out like the twin engine guys are.![]()
Sort of like the broughaha over fuel polishing systems that thousands of boaters don't use ever and a few do, wouldn't you say Tom? *sunchaser wrote:
It is amazing, all this brouhaha over pieces of wood in the water. *Wood that thousands of vessels avoid every day, and a few don't.* Sometimes a good riposte is all that is needed.
Well that spoils all my fun. I guess if you were in Bellingham Bay instead of that mill pond in New Jersey, you'd know how dangerous it was all the time, totally unpredictable conditions out there. I read a book once where a whale attacked a ship, so I keep a sharp lookout for them now too.JohnP wrote:
Ken, *I could be anchored off the channel in a calm spot. With the engine cooled down after a simple lunch or refreshing swim.
You never know.
-- Edited by JohnP on Monday 21st of February 2011 09:03:04 AM
Though it pains* me greatly....I have to agree!Marin wrote:Sort of like the broughaha over fuel polishing systems that thousands of boaters don't use ever and a few do, wouldn't you say Tom? *![]()
Though it pains* me greatly....I have to agree!SeaHorse II wrote:
Marin wrote:Sort of like the broughaha over fuel polishing systems that thousands of boaters don't use ever and a few do, wouldn't you say Tom? *![]()
SeaHorse II wrote:Though it pains* me greatly....I have to agree!
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I didn't mean it pains me to agree with Marin but rather it's what he said! I often agree with Marin!
This G--D--- English language is a bitch to make one's true intent known. I wish I knew how to speak and write in Greek as the interpretation is quite literal in that language.