Things I need or should consider, that I haven't thought of...

[boots]

corkscrew?

[sueb]

and my list is:

 

 

Keys to everything & 2nd spare set (with keys individually identifiable)

BW key & spare

Anti-vandal key & spare

Lock key longthrow & spare

Lock key shortthrow & spare

Torches (LED) & spare

Batteries forsame & spare

First aid kit

Loupe & tweezers for splinters

Mobile phone & charging system

Sun glasses & spare

Glasses as needed & spares

Sun hat & spare

Clothes & footwear & spares (note all may be needed in a single day)

For cold weather

For wet weather

For warm weather

For hot weather

Binoculars for seeing what is happening on the lock ahead

Dipstick for diesel tank

Diesel

Spare oil, water, antifreeze

Gloves, nitrile, for dealing with weed hatch material which can be sharp.

Tiller bar and pin

Magnet with string already attached.

Maps

Spare fuses

Basic toolkit

Ropes 4 as above

Nappy pins 4

Pins 4

Hammers 2

Baby wipes - loads

Tissue - loads

Toilet paper - loads

Working toilet with adequate capacity

Bucket

Paper & pencil

River stuff ?anchor, VHF radio, etc

Tinned food

Coffee, tea,etc & heating mechanism

Water

Chair

Spare padlocks

Headlamp & spare bulbs

Spare wire

Fenders (for sleeping)

Barge pole

Boat hook

Clock (for tunnels)

Radio (for weather forecast)

Cooking Stove & fuel for it

Heating system & fuel for it

Camera

Tin opener

Bread knife

Beer money

Chocolate biscuits - loads

Slippers & wellies

Optimism - large size

Spare jubilee clips in a range of sizes

Horn

Boat license stickers

Pinch of salt

How about spare crew and A spare boat

[bizzard]

Grand piano and maybe a gas bottle spanner.

[oarfish]

Bacon. I find it difficult to steer for long periods without bacon sandwiches. Also scotch.

[AidanLincs]

Bacon. I find it difficult to steer for long periods without bacon sandwiches. Also scotch.

 

Bacon, I can understand. But doesn't scotch cause the banks to go crooked?

[Darren72]

A few kart tyres on a few metres of rope

A saw

A Leatherman/Swiss army knife

Kitchen sink

A big bag to put it all in ((dont use suitcases) only for dead bodies)

[Caprifool]

A few kart tyres on a few metres of rope

 

What are they for Darren?

[Guest]

What are they for Darren?

 

Fenders

[AidanLincs]

Fenders

 

I was going to get Rosie and Jim dolls for that.

[PiRSqwared]

A selection of trumpets.

[system 4-50]

Grand piano and maybe a gas bottle spanner.

The grand is a pain. Every time I move it to dust under it, the boat lists alarmingly.

 

Gas bottle spanner is good and I have one. However, though I have gas bottles, I have no gas. Yet.

 

Spare crew would be good if I had any crew in the first place! A spare boat I'll have to think about. A nice small one for use as a lifeboat perhaps, say about 91,000 tons...

 

 

 

[system 4-50]

Time for a consolidated list (version 3) of the above:

 

Alarm, crew summoning ding-dong

Anchor with associated chain and rope.

Antifreeze

Anti-vandal key & spare

Baby wipes - loads

Barge pole

Basic toolkit

Batteries for LED torches & spares

Beer

Beer money

Binoculars for seeing what is happening on the lock ahead

Bread knife

Boat hook

Boat license stickers

Bottle opener

BSS stuff

Bucket

Burgee (optional)

BW key & spare

Camera

Cat o' nine tails to keep the crew in order (& some soft rope)

Chair

Chocolate biscuits - loads

Clock (for tunnels)

Clothes & footwear & spares (note all may be needed in a single day)

For cold weather

For wet weather

For warm weather

For hot weather

Coffee

Compass

Cooking Stove & fuel for it

Corkscrew

Cup-a-soups

Cutters for use in weed hatch

Depth/draft gauge

Diesel

Dipstick for diesel tank

Fan belt(s) - spare

Fenders (for sleeping) - various , to taste

Firelighters, box of, & spare

First aid kit

Floats for keys

Fuses, spare

Gang plank

Gas bottle spanner (must be reverse thread)

Glasses (optical) as needed & spares

Gloves, nitrile, for dealing with weed hatch material which can be sharp.

Grease - stern gland

Guides - eg Pearson's, Nicholson's, Waterscape

Hammers 2

Headlamp & spare bulbs

Heating system & fuel for it

Horn

Jubilee clips, spare, in a range of sizes

Jump lead - used on your domestic batteries if for some reason your starter battery dies

Kart tyres on a few metres of rope as fenders

Kettle

"Keys" for eg

water filler

toilet pump out

diesel filler

Keys to everything & 2nd spare set (with keys individually identifiable)

Leatherman/Swiss army knife

Lifejackets (primarily for rivers)

Lock key longthrow with roller handle & spare

Lock key shortthrow with roller handle & spare

Loupe & tweezers for splinters

Magnet with string already attached.

Maps

Mirror

Mobile phone & charging system

Nappy pins 4

Oil, spare, engine

Optimism - large size

Padlocks - spare

Paper & pencil

Pins 4 (2 extra long)

Radio (for weather forecast)

RCR membership or similar

Ropes, at least 3 (bow, stern, centre) but 4 (2x centre) makes life easier for some

Salt (pinch of)

Saw

Scaffolding pole, 8ft, preferably heavy gauge aluminium

Scissors

Slippers

Sponge

Stationary wallet, plastic, to keep paper stuff dry.

Sun glasses & spare

Sun hat & spare

Tea

Thermos flask

Tiller bar and pin

Tin opener

Tinned food - loads (for emergency use)

Tissue - loads

Toilet paper - loads

Torches (LED) & spare

Towel (for travelling the Galaxy)

VHF radio & certificate

Vinegar for chips and wasp stings

Walkie-talkies, pair

Water

Waterscape Boaters Guide - print

Water hose

Wellies (aka Wellington Boots)

Wire - spare, electrical

Wok plus two large wooden spoons

Working toilet with more than adequate capacity

Zip ties

 

Note that boats under 12ft in length may have difficulty in passing under low bridges when carrying the full inventory.

Edited June 8, 2012 by system 4-50

[boots]

bigger boat? (just to put that lot in!)

[bizzard]

The grand is a pain. Every time I move it to dust under it, the boat lists alarmingly.

 

Gas bottle spanner is good and I have one. However, though I have gas bottles, I have no gas. Yet.

 

Spare crew would be good if I had any crew in the first place! A spare boat I'll have to think about. A nice small one for use as a lifeboat perhaps, say about 91,000 tons...

As well as for cooking in,a big Wok makes a good lifeboat,but one with two handles as oars can be slipped through them.

[JerryP]

wellington boots ,the towpaths are overgrown and very wet !

[system 4-50]

List above edited to reflect above comments and add omissions.

[Taslim]

Crew's bigger'n me.

 

That's why you need the cat.

[dccruiser]

I picked up a couple of waterproof ponchos last week from my local home bargains ... £1.29 each, after my last outing down the Trent in a rainstorm i wouldnt be without one, other than that i always carry boxes of nescafe cappuccinos for those days when i run out of milk, also as you just add hot water, they tend to stay hot a lot longer when sat on the cabin roof along with making the banks straighter the morning after the night before!

Other things i always carry apart from those listed are a spare impellor for the jabsco, a spare fuel and oil filter, a can of 3 in 1 for cables, a can of WD40 and i have a ratchet handle with an appropriately sized socket for my weedhatch, i also have a full set of spare keys for the boat that i keep aboard along with a single cabin key i either have hidden on deck in a magnetic key case, or wear on a bootlace around my neck when cruising, just in case the worse happens!

 

Let me know when you are doing the trent Aiden, if i am free i would be happy to join you from Sawley to Newark.

 

Rick

[Davo_Willow]

I have a ratchet handle with an appropriately sized socket for my weedhatch

 

What do you use this for? Is it a common design for a weed hatch to be secured using nuts - or is this used for turning the prop?

 

Thanks!

Edited June 9, 2012 by Davo_Willow

[AidanLincs]

Let me know when you are doing the trent Aiden, if i am free i would be happy to join you from Sawley to Newark.

 

Cheers DC! I will be posting my progress on here for people to giggle at, so you'll be able to see when we're in the area and - more importantly - decide how far away you want to be from the floating disaster.

[Darren72]

I was going to get Rosie and Jim dolls for that.

I like that idea

[dccruiser]

What do you use this for? Is it a common design for a weed hatch to be secured using nuts - or is this used for turning the prop?

 

Thanks!

 

They all differ, but mine is secured with bolts through to captive nuts rather than the more common wingnuts, personally i prefer it as i know when it is closed it is closed!

Years ago i got caught behind a sunken hireboat on the Llangollen where the guy had opened the weedhatch whilst in a lock, but hadnt secured it properly , so when he left the lock he flooded the boat, so when i arrived he was stood on the roof along with his kids and his wifey bending his ear for fiddling with things he didnt understand!

 

Rick

[Paul C]

I'd have thought a weedhatch should be secured (and can be removed) without the use of tools, otherwise it would discourage the regular checking. You don't need a spanner to check the engine oil level, after all.

[dccruiser]

I'd have thought a weedhatch should be secured (and can be removed) without the use of tools, otherwise it would discourage the regular checking. You don't need a spanner to check the engine oil level, after all.

 

I cant see why the use of a ratchet rather than turning wingnuts would discourage regular checking, but then again i enjoy the maintenance aspect of boat ownership, so whether it be the weedhatch, adjusting the stern gland, checking batteries, servicing the engine or carrying out running repairs, i am certainly not discouraged by having to use tools, but each to their own i guess.

 

Rick

[ditchcrawler]

I'd have thought a weedhatch should be secured (and can be removed) without the use of tools, otherwise it would discourage the regular checking. You don't need a spanner to check the engine oil level, after all.

I don't check mine regularly, only when I have something on the prop.