For months now I have been professing the need for spares. Not only for your primary devices but also for your backup devices as well. Not only do you need a Plan A for your primary device but you need a Plan A for your backup devices also. When your primary device fails, breaks, gets lost, falls overboard or you just plain forget how to use it, You need a plan to fix, repair, find,retrieve or read instructions for that device. The same holds true for your backup device because that now becomes your primary device. So now you need to be able to recover from the loss of use of that device as well. Get it?? So after 9 months and close to 5000 miles, I have found out where my failings are (and trust me there are many). The one that sticks out this morning is the failure of the can opener. I can't even begin to tell you how fustrating it is to be offshore in 20+ knots of wind, seas running to 10 + feet and you can hardly stand in one spot, to not be able to open a #*&^%G can of beans. So let that be a lesson to all who go out to sea....... Must be something in the tool box I can use.......... a