Quick Cruising Poll

Bleeding fingers.Swearing at your wife at midnight when a pump goes off. Getting smacked in the face by a wet rope. Lugging dirty old oil up a dock.

Or just getting a kiss from your bestie, and it all makes sense.

Coca-Cola. Nothing goes right when the captain falls asleep.
My wife. Since I'm getting paid to do a job I would seldom bring her along.
Relaxing and enjoying the cruise. Always thinking "What if". So it's not till I put the boat in the slip that I get to look back and think 'That was a great trip. Wish I could have enjoyed it'. Ever want to ruin a hobby make it your profession.

You're a marine engineer and you come here asking us to guess an item we can't do without, that we would miss and would leave us unable to do a certain activity?

Are you going to equip our next boats with a wife? Or a mistress? My guess is you have something to sell and it's not love.

Athens GA or Athens Greece? Is he talking sailing as in a sailboat? Yes, suspect some other business reason behind this thread especially since his first post here and hasn't even introduced himself or herself.

Oh what a skeptical bunch we are. So far all I've seen is a question we've seen here before, one that can bring amusing and educational answers. Let's try to be welcoming to new members at least until motives are displayed. I remember back when I was a newbie and thought I'd be neglectful if I didn't have a $1,000 worth of medical supplies aboard including splints and slings for every part of the body, and every tool imaginable. Eventually that list got whittled down to not much more than some band-aids, an ace bandage and a Leatherman,
Olderboater did bring two good points: Where someone boats is relevant. It'd be nice to know which Athens the OP is from. There are a lot of cities around the world named Athens. Also the term "sailing cruise" is a bit confusing. Is he talking about all cruising or specifically cruising aboard a sail boat?

Plain as day, Greece. Look at the handle. Yachtosopher. Clearly a Yacht Philosopher. Greek. See, very easy to decipher

"a boat is nothing more than a whole in the water to which we pour money $$$ into"...... so prior years we never leave home without our AX card....
sadly current times never leave the dock without proof of a negative Covid test or proof of vaccination aboard.....

That would be my assumption, but you know what they say about assumptions.

My opinion is... our guidelines are quite clear on using YF for marketing research. This thread is being closed.