sailing knife

[Kamen]

Morakniv. Under $20.

[OZwingle]

Take a look at dive knives. I wear a dive/white water knife on my inflatable PFD/harness. Full length straight blade, half length serrathed other side, chisel tip. Dive knives are very corrosion resistant, locking sheath with belt or strap clip. A good on-deck knife, imho. Not so much in town or around the docks.

[MicHughV]

Every xmas I get about a dozen leatherman tools, I have quite the collection of them now...folded up, they fit in a nice little pouch on your belt. I have so many now, there is one in every drawer, toolbox, shelf, etc. Though they look snazzy, I find their blades a bit dull.

But when I mean business, I reach for " Brutus", my venerable dive knife, showing some age now, but still the king of the pile. For one thing, it has a whopper big handle, making it easy to grip, with one or even two hands and serrated blade built like a tank.

[Sailbaum]

I will look into the cork floating knife. Looks useful.

For now, I favor the Myerchin Sailors tool (post #56) which is a great simple tool that gets the necessary jobs done.

I also use a skeletool but I removed the knife and added scissors making it TSA friendly.
Tip: clip it on the outside of your bag. Since I started doing that TSA hasn't stopped me once.

[Bill_Giles]

In more than 50 years of sailing dinghies and keelboats and operating small power craft I have never had to use a knife in an emergency where I needed the knife immediately. I do carry a folding one on my lifejacket which also has a line cutter supplied with it. We also have a sharp serrated knife in a sheath by the companionway on our sailing cruiser and also have one handy on our little racing keelboat. The thought of walking around with a knife like Bowie strikes me as rather OTT unless you are a diver, although if I were a kite surfer I think that might call for one, although a hooked line cutter might actually be more useful.

[Tetepare]

Originally Posted by Bill_Giles

In more than 50 years of sailing dinghies and keelboats and operating small power craft I have never had to use a knife in an emergency where I needed the knife immediately..

I have and my Myrchin on a lanyard did the dirty work. My little Kershaw Scallion gets used daily. A Spyderco folder hangs on the binnacle.