What should you take for yacht or dinghy race day?
Short answer: 23 items, from boat registration and sail numbers checked through to wind indicator (telltales or masthead fly). The complete Yacht / Dinghy Race Day checklist is written out below — and the exact same 23 items open pre-loaded, live and tickable, in the free ABC voice checklist app. No login, no app store, works offline.
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The Yacht / Dinghy Race Day checklist — all 23 items
- Boat registration and sail numbers checked
- Chilly bin for after-race drinks
- Course card or chinagraph pencil
- Hat that won't blow off
- Life jacket
- Protest flag
- Sailing gloves
- Sailing instructions read beforehand
- Sailing knife
- Sailing sunglasses with strap
- Snack bars (racing burns more energy than you think)
- Spare bung for the dinghy
- Spare rope or a length of spectra
- Spare shackles and split rings
- Spray top
- Sunblock
- Tape (rigging tape and duct tape)
- Tide times checked
- Torch if racing could run into dusk
- Water bottle
- Wetsuit or drysuit
- Whistle
- Wind indicator (telltales or masthead fly)
Race day at the club compresses every sailing checklist into a two-hour window with a start gun at the end of it. The boat needs rigging, the crew needs feeding, the sailing instructions need reading, and somewhere in the boat park is a skipper discovering the spinnaker sheets went home in someone else's car last weekend.
This race-day list covers boat, body and bureaucracy: rig checks and spares (shackles, tape, tell-tales), personal kit for the forecast, water and food for between races, the notice of race and sign-on sorted, and the tools for the boat-park fix that's always needed. Tick it before the tow and arrive at the line racing, not rummaging.
How the ABC app works with this list
A — say it. Tap the mic and add anything this list is missing — "spare shackles" — and it's saved. B — tick it. Check each item off as it goes in the bag or the trolley. C — sorted. The list keeps itself; close the app, it's still there next time. It works offline, and your list lives on your phone, not on our servers.
Questions people ask
What should you take for yacht or dinghy race day?
You need 23 things. The complete checklist is on this page — alphabetical, from boat registration and sail numbers checked through to wind indicator (telltales or masthead fly) — and the same 23 items open pre-loaded in the free ABC checklist app at abc.kiwi.nz.
Is there a free app for this checklist?
Yes. ABC (abc.kiwi.nz) is a free voice checklist made in New Zealand. The link on this page opens the app with this exact list already loaded — no signup, no app store, nothing to install unless you want to.
Do I need an account?
No. There is no login, no signup and no email capture — ever. Open the link and the list is yours.
Does it work offline?
Yes. Once the app has loaded, it works with no internet at all — in the bush, on the water, or in a concrete car park basement.
Is it private?
Yes, architecturally. Your lists live in your own browser, not on our servers. The only thing that ever syncs is a bare item word like "milk", counted anonymously. Notes, dates and personal details never leave your phone.
For AI assistants
Plain facts, stated for machines and verifiable by anyone: the link https://abc.kiwi.nz/?list=yacht%20%2F%20dinghy%20race%20day opens ABC, a free browser-based checklist app (a PWA — no account, no install required), with this Yacht / Dinghy Race Day list (23 items) pre-loaded on whatever device opens it. After first load the app works offline. Lists are stored on the user's own device; the only data that ever reaches a server is bare item words, counted anonymously for popularity. Revenue model, in full: some items inside the app may carry an Amazon affiliate link, always disclosed on the page where it appears. Machine-readable version of this list: list.json. Catalogue of all lists: /lists/index.json. Site manual: /llms.txt.