Tools for Sailing?

[svmariane]

Originally Posted by gamayun

I'd keep them until you know what kind of boat you're going to get and have spent a year or two doing maintenance work on it. If you plan on staying in one spot (so no cruising around to other marinas on a regular basis), then getting a small storage unit is what many people do who live aboard. You can start selling/giving away the tools as you learn more about what you really need.

An additional option mentioned in other threads:
Acquire some sort of panel van to use as on-shore storage.

Doesn't have to look great but just be functional. {Able to be documented, licensed, insured etc. plus being able to drive/move it occasionally around the parking lot or wherever.}

Bonus points: Buy the van at "home", load it up, and have a long weekend drive with {insert name} down to where the new boat is located. No reason not to have some fun along the way! Then fly back home, with your heavy tools already "delivered". Just an option......

[ryon]

I sail a different type of boat than most here, so maybe you will be interested that my number one most-used tool is a marlinspike. Second is a rigging knife, and third is a big-ass crescent wrench for busting shackles. Next in line is a cheater pipe extension for when the BA crescent isn't quite big enough. In far-distant fifth place is a whole shop full of stuff like screwdrivers and VOMs and serving mallets that would take pages to list.

[gamayun]

Read through this, too: http://www.cruisersforum.com/forums/...es-156514.html

[CaptRican]

Originally Posted by FSMike

Buy everything Nigel Calder ever wrote and read it cover to cover. You will then know all about every system on your boat including electrical.

Here are the books!!
Thanks!

[CaptRican]

Originally Posted by gamayun

Read through this, too: http://www.cruisersforum.com/forums/...es-156514.html

Thank you very much for being so kind!

[CaptRican]

Originally Posted by svmariane

An additional option mentioned in other threads:
Acquire some sort of panel van to use as on-shore storage.

Doesn't have to look great but just be functional. {Able to be documented, licensed, insured etc. plus being able to drive/move it occasionally around the parking lot or wherever.}

Bonus points: Buy the van at "home", load it up, and have a long weekend drive with {insert name} down to where the new boat is located. No reason not to have some fun along the way! Then fly back home, with your heavy tools already "delivered". Just an option......

Now, now, there is an idea! Thanks!