What is the best piece of gear on your boat?

[Yves Feder W1UX]

Just curious about your opinions.
Mitchell Bober
RESPITE
CD330

Probably the lovely sweep of the sheer as I'm rowing away from her on the mooring! Nice to have a well proportioned seagoing S/V with traditional lines

Of course the diesel, the new roller furler, the dodger, etc.etc. all are in the running!!!!!!



saltwater@tinyradio.com

[Jim Ehrenfried]

Just curious about your opinions.
Mitchell Bober
RESPITE
CD330

Great Crew! (family and friends, and a Grateful Dead CD on a moonlit night.

Jim Ehrenfried
TY 272
Slipknot



jfreeds@msn.com

[Mark T.]

The Hull!!! It keeps the water out of the boat.



cypriss428@aol.com

[Ed Haley]

The best piece of gear I have on my boat are the CHARTS of the region I'm sailing in.



eghaley@twcny.rr.com

[Jon]

A full cockpit, a full moon, and a full glass of wine!

Jon

[John Sill]

CDSOA, of course!

[Bob Ohler]

The perfect answer! Such a knack you have, John!

CDSOA, of course!

bobohler@chesapeake.net

[Michael Stephano]

without a doubt......Auto piolit

Here Here. I'll second that!!!!!1



mundo@visi.net

[Mark Yashinsky]

And a yard ape to work on your boat while you "work" at Rear Commodore duties at your yacht club???


Just kidding Bill. When are we going out sailing next???

[M. R. Bober]

What do you really think?

Mitchell Bober
RESPITE
CD330

[Bay0Wulf]

CD Typhoon - 900 Lbs on the keel. I beat my baby hard and have managed to lay her down repeatedly. I go out when the flags come out and everyone else heads for cover. I'm stressing my deck plates but ... I bought her to sail tough and hard ... I miss the family Yankee 2 Sloop racer (32' x 3000 Lbs) but I've never been happier with a boat's gung-ho spirit



hdwmavrick@att.net

[Larry DeMers]

Considering only gear now, not crew, there are two pieces of gear that have opened our sailing horizons a lot. Radar has made a world of difference to us. It allows us to sail at night or in fog without as much reservation as we formerly had.
Secondly, our wood burning stove. This little doodad allows us to extend the season so that we are sailing in early April, and continue until November.

These pieces of gear have opened up a huge window of fun sailing for us over what we normally would have had, and increased our possible range covered over the weekends.

Cheers!
Larry DeMers
s/v DeLaMer
Cape Dory 30 Sailing Lake Superior

Just curious about your opinions.
Mitchell Bober
RESPITE
CD330

demers@sgi.com