WHAT TO CARRY TO FIX A STEERING FAILURE

Full inventory of replacement cables, bearings, chain, clips, and clamps. Drogue of suitable size for the size of the boat. Two reinforced rubber-handled buckets, with 2m Dyneema or webbing lanyards, A plan and all items to make and install a temporary rudder. My basic plan is to lash the spinnaker pole across the transom of the boat and use an internal door. I carry emergency 10mm x 300mm through-bolts (no heads, double nuts) and a 10mm drill bit, and would use these to secure a spar from the vessel, such as the aluminium bowsprit, to the door. I’d then lash this temporary stock and rudder to the spinnaker pole with Dyneema. I’d use the emergency tiller, throughbolted through the aluminium sprit. Dyneema line twice the length of your cabling system and similar diameter to the cables in case you have to splice a temporary cable. Splicing kit.