1. Expensive. Consider that when it gets damaged, nobody will have Hydranet fabric to repair it with, so it'll just get patched up with Dacron anyways. Either bring a roll of fabric or just go with a good, heavy Dacron. That was the advice I got from Peter Sanders and he was completely right.
4. Too many power sources. I'd skip either the wind/tow thing or the petrol generator, unless you're cooking with electricity or something silly like that.
5. Consider Coppercoat, you'll be in warm waters and its easy to keep clean with a brush and you can stay in the water instead of hauling out.
7. We had one. IMHO it's a pointless thing. When a sudden storm hits, you're not going to prance around the foredeck rigging that thing. If the storm is forecast, why would you go out? Barefoot route means you're avoiding the north Atlantic return where such a thing might be actually used.
8. Good idea. Also carry a complete toilet pump to swap over. It WILL break and you WILL miss it when you're shitting into a bucket. The complete pump is a 5 minute swap and then you can fix the broken one later.
9. Well, if it that the wife from running away, whatever it takes
10. Good idea. I was thinking about building a pressure tight safety box around the through-hulls in the forepeak as I didn't trust them much.
11. Excellent.
15. I rigged a net so one side of the main cabin couch can be set up as rough seas berth with the back cushion on one side and the net on the other keeping one from rolling out. I used this on a few rough passages and it was really useful due to less movement, close proximity to the companionway and secure rest.
16. Just inspect it thoroughly before you go.
18. Make sure you use a
Vyv Cox approved C-shackle to join them. Friends almost ended up on the rocks as their chandlerly chocolate C-link broke.
19. Or one of those satellite messengers and an experience person ashore to give you weather routing messages? Elon can't turn that off on you mid-voyage
Also make sure you have good sun protection (bimini) and that said protection is usable underway and up to a certain degree of wind strength without having to be wrestled down or becoming a hazard. In tropical climates, ventilation and mosquito netting are essential, too. We got a windscoop and also turned our forward hatch around to face forward.