What's the best

[Tyemac]

What is the best thing you bought for your boat that you can't do without now, or wouldn't want to leave shore without ?

 

[dlochner]

A gardener's kneeling pad. It is also one of the cheapest items on the boat. There seems to be an endless number of times I have to get down on my hands and knees to get something or fix something. The kneeling pad makes it almost comfortable.

 

[markwbird]

Lewmar winches

 

[kloudie1]

Autopilot

 

[Gene Neill]

Autopilot x2

 

[Dalliance]

Self-tailing winches.

 

[Jimmy]

BBQ soon to be tiller pilot

 

[Jackdaw]

refrigeration conversion for the icebox. Jodi agrees.

 

[Stu Jackson]

Autopilot x2

Once you've had one, without it is......................

Like microwave ovens & ATMs, "How'd I ever live without it?"

 

[NYSail]

Autopilot is dreamy!

 

[garymalmgren]

Straw hat

 

[nightowle]

Our toaster - but in reality, the chartplotter at the helm.

 

[DAVA390]

Roller furling on the jib. A happy admiral makes a happy boat!

 

[jssailem]

While I’m am a big with the auto pilot, to expand the discussion I add the 2 stern pulpit seats I added this year. They are preferred spots to sit and enjoy the cruise on a pleasant day. The occupiers have excellent view of the boat and what surrounds it. They are comfortable and secure offering great hand holds. The perch is out of the way yet you can quickly enter the action in handling the boat. They have turned out to be a grand addition that happened as an after thought while in he midst of replacing the damaged stern pulpit.
Now, I’d take a hammer to the old pulpit just to damage it so I could get it repaired and add stern pulpit seats to the replacement.

 

[Hydro Therapy]

Bimini top, had one added this year and shortly after we took a week long sail to Rock Hall MD. The trip was during a heatwave. I think my bald head would of exploded without it.

I may of said auto pilot but my boat had that when I bought it.

 

[rgranger]

Bimini

 

[CaptKimble]

All of the above!..but the fridge is a great thing to have on a boat.

 

[pateco]

Dehumidifier.

It is so nice to have a boat without Mold & Mildew growing everywhere. and the odor below is now pleasant instead of nasty.

It is the first thing I plug in when we return to our slip.

 

[Charlie Jones s/v Tehani]

Bimini,, and autopilot.. But I'd swap the main sail for the Bimini if forced to choose. Here on the Texas coast, you'd roast without the Bimini

 

[Simon Sexton]

Topping lift...before I installed it the boom would just rest in the cockpit.