I also have a 260 or so pieces socket set on board that I bought for a screaming deal at Lowes' fathers day sale a couple years ago .
Being on a lake, I don't do extended cruising or anything offshore. In fact more than 50% of my boat's use is drag racing around the cans in club races where extra weight is supposed to hurt me... So why do I have it onboard? My house and regular toolset is 30 miles away from the boat so to get a missing / forgotten tool I either have to (re)buy the tools somewhere near the boat one at a time for a huge premium or drive 60 miles round trip to get them from home. As for borrowing stuff: for whatever reason no one on my dock seems to have what I need when I need it. What goes into 260 pieces? Metric set short and deep socket / SAE set short and deep socket. On a 25 year old Canadian made / American operated boat that has a random mix of SAE and Metric stuff, I have used a surprisingly high percentage of all of the above. The benefits of having both short and deep sockets on my boats' impossible to reach stuff speaks for itself. That is definitely the some of the best couple hundred bucks I have spent on this boat. -Francois Rivard 1990 34+ "Take Five" Lake Lanier, GA.
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