Living With The Tide - Sailing Grab Bag

In this short video Matt explains everything that we have in our Grab Bag on board. As we Sail around the world, a grab bag is one of the essentials to have with us.

If you have any questions then please comment below, and as always any feedback is very welcome :D

Thanks for joining us and we hope you will stay with us on this adventure! :D

Love Matt & Paige

[waderogers]

I agree with another comment about taking along a saltwater hand pump for making fresh water. I'd also recommend a floating jacket for your InReach because the unit doesn't float without the neoprene jacket. In an emergency situation, just holding onto the bare device might result in it dropping into the water in a pitching life raft, so a lanyard and the floating jacket will help keep that from happening.

[matttarry]

Some people may mention fishing line and hook, but you have plenty of food. Radar reflector and whistle possibly. Sun cream if in tropics. Barley sugars are an extra food supply, don't take up much room. Hand held cheap compass, should GPS batteries fail. Things i added are all usually found in life rafts. Can't think of much else, all looks professional . You can always change things depending where you sail. I.e climate, languages, distance to land and sea states. Happy sailing....

[heatherclarke]

My work made your sails 😁! Just came across your video and spotted them 😊 may have made your sprayhood too but I can't tell. How cool!

[ToastandJam]

I think a backup torch would be a good idea.  Just in case one doesn't work or gets lost overboard.  I know they are expensive but a water proof torch might be a good idea.

[madabouttheboat]

hi, when we carried flares we had a pair of gardening gloves in the drum to protect your hands as flares chuck out nasty stuff. we have now gone over to laser flares.

[oursailingstory]

hi loving the vloging. some items worth considering for your grab bag especially when you start to venture out into the vast oceans where you could be in your life raft for days. first fishing tackle, handline etc, leatherman multi tool, osmosis pump (make fresh water out of seawater) small foldable solar for your electronic devices, suncream, wind up torch, sea survival hand book. there is probably loads more but this is what I would include for any blue water adventures. hope this has given you some ideas.
Brian

[ushillbillies]

OUR Torch, " flashlight " in Canada is a solar charged job, we have 4 of them and they are awesome, ,
Good video always learning from others..Fair Winds ..

[icelandviking]

Chem lights are nice. I would put the AA batteries in a ziplock bag just to keep them separate from the stuff in the float bag.

[josehurtado]

Hi! Integrantes the flexible solar panel in grab back is extra no expensive AND can used onboard if need

[jerryclinton]

Good bag advice imo, maybe bank cards and mobiles? space blankets? sweets? toilet paper?
It very much depends on location of course.
Just found your channel, looks good, fair winds Jerry

[tomharrell]

Viking that's a good bit of kit.
I know you must have water but I did not see it. You might have a few sutures for a cut that needs a bit of stitches. In the states a doc can write prescriptions for the boat. I would carry 24 morphine 30mg tablets for severe pain. 40 cephalexin 500mg capsules for a topical skin infection. 20 ciprofloxin 500mg tablets for lung or urinary tract or anthrax infections. 10 Doxycycline 100mg capsules for other infections, And 100 meclizine 25mg tablets for sea sickness. I think some iodine scrub (Betadine) for cuts and scratches. Peroxide and alcohol. I might also have a splint for a broken bone. Definitely should have lots of sunscreen. You are very fair Viking I don't want you to burn. You should have some liquid household chlorine bleach for jelly fish and fire Coral stings. (You pore it on the sting let it sit a few seconds then wash off with fresh water. Never rub jelly fish or fire Coral stings. You actually rub the nematocysts into the skin and make them worse)
A tube of triple antibiotic ointment (NeoSporin)
A bottle of nasal spray. (If you scuba dive and cannot clear your ears. you can use nasal spray in your nose and squirt it in the back of your throat into the Eustachian tubes wait 20 minutes that will open them up so you can clear your ears)
I hope you never need any of this kit. That's all I can think of off the cuff. If I remember more I will add it later.

[jcf]

Good video, a couple of things I would add is a small fishing kit, extra knife and a kite that can be attached to your life raft and used for propulsion. You could also add a small flexible solar panel rigged up to charge your hand held vhf, signal mirror, small hand held water maker, spear gun, hand held compass, sunscreen, hat. There's also a great book by Steve Callahan called "Adrift - 76 days at sea" that is a great read.

[hyime]

Hi Mathew & Paige, great to see you starting to live your dream people after my own heart wish I had the money to do it and My girlfriend and I would be chasing you down. I see the Grab Bag very good there is a couple of things you could add there is a form of Water De Salination  kit that you can get for a grab bag it about the size of a Bicycle pump also signal mirrors as Electronics will fail at the wrong time and mirror is simple other foods Re-hydration tablets if you are Sea Sick your need to replace Electrolytes in your body also good old Kenndals mint cake High energy bars  and a Small basic fishing kit when I served in HM-Forces I had a Survival Kit in a Tobacco Tin which had wire saw fishing kit compass water proof matches fire starter spark stick edible candle and Aide Memoir to survival all in a Tobacco Tin you can get them through Army Surplus shops on line  Regards Craig and Nita Keep up the Vlog we following you

[Josef_R]

That flare bucket has a lot of unused space in it. Fill it with something.

[Y-PAlecLeith]

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