This list is only a start, but consider having these loose items on your trawler:
- Inflatable safety harnesses (and tethers to jack lines rigged on deck)
- Comfortable life jackets
- Abandon ship “ditch bag” (complete with carefully selected necessary items)
- First aid kit
- Day/night flares
- Meteor/parachute flares
- Orange smoke signals
- Fire blanket
- Cyalume SnapLight sticks
- Waterproof flashlights
- Floating strobe
- Lifesling
- Immersion suits
- Carbon monoxide/smoke alarms
- Drogue
- Sea anchor
- Personal locator beacons
- Portable VHF
- Portable GPS
- Portable SART (search and rescue transponder)
- Binoculars
- Emergency bungs/plugs/cones for through-hulls
- Portable bilge pump
- Crow bar
- Signaling mirror
- Rescue tape
- Safety matches
- Survival food rations
- Drinking water
*Small metal pail (requirement in South Africa) for making a controlled signal fire
*Axe (requirement in Canada) to break through or cut away debris from a crash
