Water-weld the last sliver of soap to the top of the new bar.

 

Carry a super-soaker in your dinghy to use as a bailing pump.

 

Cut the 12V brick off your TV cord and wire it directly to your 12V system.

 

Put a diving mask on your dinghy. Your out, starts raining, you can’t see in the rain. Put the mask on, much easier. Looks goofy, but hey, it helps.

Great thread.

 

Cut the top off your black-water filter, replace the charcoal and put it back together with a band of electrical tape.

 

Hang a squeegee in your wet-head for quick cleanup after a shower

 

fasten a length of PVC tube to your dinghy's transom. Use it to transport your rods and doubles an an umbrella holder for shade or shelter from the rain.

 

Leave pre-measured mooring lines tied to your dock, and carry a separate travel set on the boat. Ditto for your power cable.

 

Always always always carry a towel

 

Put breakables in the galley sink before getting underway.

 

Soak your anchor-line in downey to keep it supple.

 

Master the Trucker's Hitch. You will thank me. You're welcome.

 

Bob is owning this thread.

 

He would be a great dock neighbor.
Mr Gadget!

 

What Bob said!

 

Put a couple of small lengths of 1/2 inch or 3/4 pipe in your strainer baskets. The copper leaches out while boat is idle to keep down marine growth inside.

 

Save those larlge pretzel containers you get at costco--they make a great place to dump all of your old oil filters at service time.

 

Replace all the door bumpers on the locker doors with new rubber "dots" cost is about 3.00 from Home depot and you won't believe how much quieter your boat is.

Also check the generator for vibrations, hoses, wire loom, intake filter, mounts, I cut my noise in half!

When you change your oil, have 2.5G ziploc bags, put the bags over the oil filter once you break it lose, the oil will run right down into the bag

Ditch the pretty 13g white trash bags, use heavy duty lawn bags all the time and you won't have rips, tears, messes, or spills

use NoFlex digestor in your holding tank and stop promising me you have something better or yours just doesn't 'need' it

turn humidity control on your AC's when you leave the boat, your cabinets will thank you

install LED lights in your engine room, if your nerdy enough to be on this forum then you NEED these lights hahaha

We installed a powerstip under the v berth with USB ports and long cables to either side of the bed to charge our phones, get's rid of the pucks and wiring.

 

Spin your helm seat 180° to face the transom. Its a comfy place to watch your rods, and makes a nice throne from which to lord it over your guests.

 

Speaking of rods, fashion a leash and attach one end to your rod holder, and clip the other end to your rod or reel. This prevents that big fish from stealing your equipment, or twinkle-toes from dropping it in the water. Not that I've ever experienced either (or both)...

 

Always keep a small trash receptacle near your bait station.

 

When fishing always have a pre-wet rag nearby. Use it to cleanup bait and blood (before it dries), and doubles as a great fish-gripper.

 

Never approach anything faster than you are willing to hit it...

 

prolly the best advise in this thread

 

For diesel folks, suck your racors dry from the top with one of those fluid suckers. You can put the suction hose all the way to bottom and get any black goo out quickly an easily. Then you don't have to mess with open buckets under the bowl and removing the drain plugs or glass bowl.

 

I installed petcocks on all of my racors

 

To keep your outflow fittings from dripping down the side of the hull, fit some pieces of clear PVC tubing into the holes.

 

Replace the drain bolt on your Racor turbine filter with a 1/4 turn locking Fumoto drain valve. Secure a length of clear tubing to the valve and insert the old plug in the other end. Now you can easily drain any water or old fuel from your Racor into a container and plug the end when finished.