Marine catalogs on board

[hoppy]

Do you keep any marine catalogs on board? I've always kept a few Swedish store catalogs on board as I find it handy to browse through them when I am trying to find a part or look for a solution to what ever problem I am having. I've also kept the Navimo catalog as it was more extensive than the Swedish ones I have.

I'm now staring at a huge pile of catalogs home wondering if or which I should keep and take down to Greece. Even if some are out of date, it doesn't matter as I use them to find what I want then search online or go to a local store and buy the items.

One German catalog that I think might make the trip down to Greece is SVB

What are your favourites?

[ianpowolny]

Hoppy, we don't keep any catalogs onboard we just search the internet when we need something. We carry enough junk onboard already. Just bought a wifi aerial from MotorHome Wifi. Need to see how it works once we get back to the boat.

If your sending stuff to Greece have you looked at these guys? www.interparcel.com/quote/

Ian

[rxc]

I usually keep a West Marine catalog, plus one from a local store here in Florida on-board. They complement one another - slightly different coverage. Also one at home, next to the loo... One is always a year behind, but still useful to give me ideas.

[Tafika II]

We carry a West Marine for reference and everything else is downloaded as a PDF file or viewed online. Most of our books are in Kindle or iBooks. Cruising guides, chart books and charts take up most of the printed information on board. We also keep one loose leaf binder (2" wide) for documents (Copies-originals store elsewhere in a safe) and some small brochures.

[On y va]

You can load the Plastimo (Navimo doesn´t exist anymore) catalogue onto your iPad as an app. One big book less.

As a catalogue: I only have the AD (Accastillage-Diffusiones) catalog on board, mainly for quick price references. But I tend to look everything up on internet.

[Zanshin]

We call those catalogues "Boat Porn" and I carry one each from "Budget Marine" and "Island Waterworld"

[rxc]

I like to think that I am techie, but I still like the printed catalogues, especially when you only have a phone to read them. And the format of the printed catalogues makes it easier to spot something, rather than trying to think up the appropriate key words to search on. Probably something that will go away with us dynosaurs...

And if you can get a catalogue aimed as fishermen rather than sailors, that can also be entertaining, as well as informative

Oh, and when we were in France, we had both French and US catalogues. It helped a LOT with the French. But I don't think I would ever bring a Brit catalogue on board - the language would be too confusing. <g>

[MartyB]

Wonder if I can bring the catalogs from work on board......would take at least 2 5' shelves etc..........

any way, I do not have any brand catalog on the boat. that would be 2 lbs of excess wt for race day! even cruising, for where I am, no big to not have them. A couple of marina's have some sort of chandler near by.I do like a few for home. Usually West Marine and Fisheries Supply.

Marty

[jdl01]

Hi Hoppy,
In the electronic primitive world of the 70's we went offshore in the south pacific for 2 years. We had a good sailing buddy who stayed home and we set ourselves up with matching manuals for all our boat systems. When equipment failed, I got hold of him by ham and arranged to get replacements shipped to the next reliable postal drop. It was slow but it worked. This might be useful in the email era today, given that you could store all your system's info on a thumb drive. I don't know your cruising habits, but it might be of use.

[chuckr]

We have a Defender one on board.  We head back to the USA once a year and go through the catalog to mark those items we broke the last sailing season and need replaced, those items that wore out and need replaced, usable items such as 4200/5200 ect that we have run out of, and of course the wish list of those items we would like but do not really need but would like to have. 

By the way we are leaving in late March and will start ordering parts a couple of weeks before we depart and when I get to my son's house I get to have Christmas, unwrapping all my gifts.  Of course getting back on the airplane is a bit of an issue when they begin to take a look at what you are bring on to the airplane and at customs when you arrive. 

[chuckr]

We are making a list of items we need for the boat this year.  With a lot of grey hair, which i believe is the result of brain cells leaking out, I need help in remember what we may need.  Therefore I wander through the catalog to see if anything jogs my memory.  So yesterday I went to find my trusty Defender catalog for some bathroom reading and could not find it.  The Admiral then reminded me that i was tossed when we cleaned a bunch of stuff out last year.  Bummer. 

[hoppy]

Feb 25, 2015 8:35:49 GMT chuckr said:

We are making a list of items we need for the boat this year.  With a lot of grey hair, which i believe is the result of brain cells leaking out, I need help in remember what we may need.  Therefore I wander through the catalog to see if anything jogs my memory.  So yesterday I went to find my trusty Defender catalog for some bathroom reading and could not find it.  The Admiral then reminded me that i was tossed when we cleaned a bunch of stuff out last year.  Bummer. 

LOL

Normally I just make my shopping list on the phone, but I never seem to fill everything in as I think of it and I never made diagrams. At Christmas I had a notepad (the analog style made of paper) on which I made all my shopping/measurement notes and then at the end of my stay I photographed every page to ensure that losing or forgetting the papers did not cause me grief