- Crew knife
- Ship's compass
- Hand bearing compass
- Telescope/binoculars
- Marlinspike
- Sextant (still required to earn the Offshore Passagemaking certification from the American Sailing Association)
- Chronometer/ship's clock
- Charting tools (parallel rules, dividers, pencil)
- Nautical charts
- Depth sounder (to make the nautical chart)
- Boat hook
- Telltales and sail ticklers (little bits of yarn to indicate wind direction and flow around the sails)
- Hand pump
- Bailing bucket
- Wind vane (masthead fly)
- Anchor
- Oar
- "Tools" used to hold things to things on the boat: blocks and tackles, shackles, cleats, winches, turnbuckles, padeyes, cotter pins, sheaves
- Cannon. Unfortunately few sailors today really know how to fire their ship's cannon properly.
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Q: Do sailors today regularly rely on any tools that sailors two hundred years ago used?
Sure, how about: