Gear for the Year
A picture of most of the gear/supplies I'll be packing for the trip. Pictured, roughly left-to-right and top-to-bottom are:
- Musto HPX Ocean Boots
- Dry Bags: Outdoor Research Ultralight and SealLine Kodiak Window Purge
- Spinlock Deckware Knee Pads
- Thermarest Compressible Pillow
- Baby wipes (in lieu of showers)
- Vitamins and medicines
- Spot Satellite Messenger (thanks mom and dad)
- iPod Shuffle (1st gen)
- Garmin Foretrex 101 Handheld GPS (more for onshore exploring than on the boat)
- Spyderco Atlantic Salt Knife
- Two pairs of sunglasses (in case one breaks while at sea) with strap
- Watch
- My "Manly-man-bag", a Pacsafe Metrosafe 200 with eXomesh. That's right fellas, steel-reinforced and slashproof man-bag action. (Thanks Aunt Pai!)
- CR123A batteries for the...
- Novatac EDC120T flashlight (thanks Brian!) with lanyard
- Sunblock and Sun protection lip balm
- Carabiners for hanging things around the sleeping berth
- Petzl Tactikka Plus Headlamp
- Journal
- Columbia Performance Fishing Gear "Mullet" Hat
- Mountain Hardwear Dome Perignon Fleece Beanie
- 2x Synthetic pants: REI Sahara Convertible and Adventures
- 2x Shorts, including ExOfficio Amphi Shorts and Gill Technical Sailing shorts
- ExOfficio boxers. Actual quantity is on a need-to-know basis. And you don't need to know.
- 3x REI Lightweight MTS Crew shirt
- 4x wool socks of varying thickness
- Various fleece jackets, pants, and thermal underwear
- Water/windproof pants
- North Face Trans-Antarctica Base Camp Duffel
