NOT Sailing Northern Ireland - This is why your boat is full of junk - Ep. 344

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[@joewilliams5396]

Beverly was like a kid in a sweet shop with her spares. She made me smile.

[@SailingYachtSaltyLass]

Luckily, she cannot eat the spares!

[@sailinglatis]

True enough! Another name we use is from the old tv show MacGyver…we call it MacGyvering to make a repair with what you have. And yep I have boxes of stuff for that FIX. Have you ever decided to clean out some of those saved items and when the time comes for a fix, you realize that part u discarded was the part you needed…😂🇨🇦

[@SailingYachtSaltyLass]

Discarding the needed part happens so often it is why we have so many parts. We know we will not need it _until_ we discard it 😮

[@sailingsheriff3349]

Most entertaining. Thank you

[@SailingYachtSaltyLass]

Glad you enjoyed it Roy!

[@WavedancerWesterlyfulmar]

A good one I heard about is a manual bit & brace drill set up for areas that have water in where electrical tools can’t go for obvious reasons. Have to get some

[@SailingYachtSaltyLass]

We are never done adding stuff. In a few more years we will have a fully equipped mobile marine machine shop.... 😄😄

[@millzee60]

The term I've heard a lot is MacGyver but it's the same thing. I've seen so much advice on Facebook from armchair sailors who say things like 'get a professional' or 'get a dodad' and they have no idea what it is to be self sufficient, at least in the short term. Weather looks good there now :)

[@SailingYachtSaltyLass]

Indeed and you must be better than most because of your voyages. But even so, there is probably lots of junk hiding somewhere aboard 😉

[@svhulda6157]

Yes, quite my experience also. I also carry some aluminium foil. Just in case a fuse should break, that I don't have as a spare. Close to 20 years ago I made a short on our TMC toilet and the fuse burned. The fuse was inside the operating switch. Last year the &@##€ switch broke. Took appart the switch. And the fuse wrapped in aluminium foil materialized. A sustainable repair. The &@##€ switch went in the proper trash, and was replaced by a 50 A car starter switch. Still there, sustainable. If I should empty 16 ton sv Hulda of spares, ropes, nuts and bolts- not in every day use, the waterline would raise 50 mm (2 inches, being imperial).

[@SailingYachtSaltyLass]

We do wonder how much our waterline would raise up as well. We saw a similar boat to our used for racing and it was more on top of the water rather than _in_ the water so we presume that it was emptied of nearly everything. If our original coppercoat was correctly at the waterline, it is now a few centimetres under 😄

[@user-gy2zf1yl2q]

I've jury rigged repairs on cars, boats and motorbikes. When i worked in the motor trade, my boss banned temporary repairs because he lost money😅

[@SailingYachtSaltyLass]

Your boss sounds like a wise man! Thanks for commenting 👍

[@WavedancerWesterlyfulmar]

I think you’re living in my head. Last few videos have been on point for what I’m doing/ thinking about. I spent Wednesday organising our spares as part of our pre departure cleanup. Was thinking of jury rig rudder set up what would we use. There’s an idea for a video for you.😊

[@SailingYachtSaltyLass]

The jury rig rudder is something that we have speculated about as well. As yet we have no good answers about that one and our stern complicates things with the dinghy and solar arch. I sometimes wonder about the old Viking approach of a "steerboard" mounted on one side (starboard side obvs 😉) and lashed to a cleat/pushpit rail. We have an old wooden oar. Would it work? I have no idea...

[@SailingYachtSaltyLass]

BTW - the reason it feels like we are living in your head is because I suspect you are doing all the things we normally do when going off for months at a time. It makes an obvious list for video topics for us and a list of essentials for you....

[@WavedancerWesterlyfulmar]

@@SailingYachtSaltyLass I saw someone plan on using door to v cabin as rudder lashed to spinnaker pole lashed to rear cleats. We don’t carry our metal pole that came with boat. Get hit by that heavy pole & it’s bye bye. Want to get carbon fibre one sometime

[@WavedancerWesterlyfulmar]

@@SailingYachtSaltyLass very true. The to do list is not getting any shorter just new stuff going on as stuff gets ticked off

[@SailingYachtSaltyLass]

@@WavedancerWesterlyfulmar that sounds so familiar 😀

[@dutchglobetrotter4513]

Nothing more permanent then a temporary fix.

[@SailingYachtSaltyLass]

I might steal that ... excellent summary 😄

[@dutchglobetrotter4513]

@@SailingYachtSaltyLass Go right ahead, I stole the phrase as well.

[@SailingYachtSaltyLass]

Thank you 👍

[@dreamtimesv]

Your parts locker looks identical to mine, even same containers, but I confess to having several parts spaces storage creep though out the boat, never know when you might ….. need 🛠️⚒️🔧🪛🗜️⛏️⚙️🔩⛓️🔬🥸

[@SailingYachtSaltyLass]

I think that a vast amount of the world's chandlery supplies are quietly mouldering away somewhere in the world's boats 😄 But those plastic boxes are very useful for doubling the storage so I am not surprised that you have them.