[PUP] Double checking your spares, money well spent

[keith at anastasia3.com]

One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from someone making a
presentation at a Trawlerfest... Can't remember who he was, but he asked all
of us... "Who here has spares on your boat?" Pretty much everybody raised
their hands. He went on to say... "Install them". We all kinda looked
dumbfounded, and he explained:

"If you install them, it does several things
for you.

1. You know you have the right spare
2. You know you have the tools
to do it
3. You know HOW to do it
4. If the one you pulled off was still good,
you still have a spare. If not, get a good one"

Sage advice!!!!

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Original Message ----
From: Scott Bulger scottebulger at gmail.com

Boy I just
had a great experience based on taking good advice.



To set the stage, I'm
leaving the US for 6 months in about 3 weeks.   Our
spares kit is fairly well
built out and I'm in the final process of making
the boat ready for departure.
On the way down the coast we experienced a
belt failure, not a big deal
because the alternator used two belts and we
just lightened the load and
continued on one belt.  

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