- Maglite - even if your boat has a spotlight, you're gonna want a big led maglite; it should use at least 3 D batteries.
- Knife - keep a knife on you, just in case you need to lose an anchor in a hurry!
- Snacks - trail mix, pistachios, beef jerky, granola bars.
- River charts - unless you have gps, and even then it's probably a good idea.
- Quimby's - essential to find marinas as well as phone numbers and radio channels for locks and bridges!
- Can opener - you're gonna want a good one ... one that won't break on you while you're opening some baked beans.
Huck Finn 2010 Lists
Sunday, July 18, 2010
Stuff you're gonna need
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Things we forgot to bring
- Can Opener - kind of a problem since about half our food is in cans. The hammer seems to be working for now.
- Inner Tube - we could have been tubing this whole time!
- Silicone Spatula - we're scraping our non-stick frying pan to pieces ...
Casualties of Huck Finn 2010
- Port side engine temperature guage - how nervous should this make me?
Mike's iphone- Simon's rice method worked and the iphone is back online!- Showering - what's the point?
- Shirt-wearing - see number 3 above
- Syrup - where did this disappear to?! Pancakes just aren't the same ...
- My beard - it was waaay too hot to have a beard!
- Dining table - the metal cup/bracket that's bolted to the floor and that you put the metal table leg/cylinder into broke off! It's just like the ones in the older Born Frees, but I'm not sure where we'll pick up a new one ...
- Simon's sunglasses - they were nice Ray Bans. We think the wind took them - gale force earlier today.
- Honeywell generator - the thing is brand new, but it turns off every 20 - 30 minutes! Why in the world ..?!
- Huckleberry Finn - where does a book disappear to on a 33ft boat?!
- Starboard railing - not gone, but worse for the wear.
- Anchor - had no idea an anchor could bend like that ...
- Anchor - lost another anchor when a huge tree hit and snapped the anchor line!
- Can opener - after finally getting one, it broke! Guess that's what we get for buying the cheapest one Walmart carries ...
- Towel - it blew off the bow, but it was so hot that we were just happy to have a breeze!
- Dirt Devil - the river claimed the roller brush and the belt. Sorry, Mom.
- 3qt sauce pan - one minute it was in Simon's hand, the next it was at the bottom of the river.
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