LETTERS
Essential kit for ocean passages
Reading your article on the ARC (‘Lessons from the ARC’, YM, March 2019) made me think of some more essential kit for ocean sailing. I have made two return sails across the Atlantic and I would certainly recommend taking a wetsuit or two, a couple of hacksaws and a good mast ladder.
On one voyage, I spent a good two hours cutting a piece of fishing net from the propeller mid ocean; only a hacksaw made any impression on the net and it destroyed the rope cutter.
Replacing a halyard shackle with a sea running, causing you to smash against the mast requires a very safe
