Every sailing boat needs cool boat stuff!   People planning to sail the world, sailboat cruisers and liveaboard families definitely need cool gadgets and fun stuff on their boat.   From towable water toys to cool drones to spear guns!

So here’s our list of cool boat gadgets that we really, really want on our boat before we head off on our world sailing adventure.  Most of the list seems to be made up of fun watersports or diving stuff.  In fact most of it involves being underwater!  We’ll definitely get some of this stuff eventually, and I’m hoping we get all of it on our boat by the time we leave to sail the world.   

Cool boat stuff we really want on our boat….

Click on the photos to check prices and availability for these massively desirable and cool boat gadgets (in my humble opinion)  :o)

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Split Dome by Split Gadgets

These look awesome.  That whole underwater/overwater shot is very cool.  I love photography and I love the water.  It’s a dome port for a GoPro which makes taking those under over shots easy.  Check out the Split Gadgets Instagram page for some pretty amazing under/over shots using the Split Dome port for GoPro

Stand Up Paddles boards

We used to have a couple of 2-man inflatable kayaks on the boat.  We’d had them for a few years and they have been awesome, but they take up a lot of room in the garage on our boat.  It took quite a bit of effort to pump them up and they are quite bulky for the deck of a boat.

Those two bulky kayaks have now been replaced with a 1-man inflatable kayak and an inflatable standup paddleboards.  SUPs are the ultimate cool boat accessory at the moment.  They fold up small and we can strap them to the guard rails on the boat without them getting too much in the way. .

Click here to check SUP prices on Amazon

A couple more GoPros

OK, so we already have a GoPro4.  We took it backpacking around Asia for a year.  GoPros are fantastic for travel and diving.  Check out some of our travel videos on Youtube for examples.  The Sri Lanka christmas diving one is good, and I love the Rajasthan one.  You can’t have too many GoPros.

GoPros are not the only option though.  There are loads of affordable action video cameras coming onto the market in 2018.  Check out prices on Amazon.

A Drone.  Everybody needs a drone.

This is the ultimate cool boat gadget!  We NEEEEED a drone.  A proper drone like a DJI Mavic Pro or a DJI Spark.   The new Karma from GoPro looks awesome too and it  comes with a GoPro Hero6 included so that’s an option.  A drone was on the list before the mast broke.  Sam has added a drone to his christmas list.  Love his optimism!

Click here to see the whole range of drones on Amazon

Subwing – Cool underwater flying!

Oooh, I love the look of these!  This set of fins can be towed behind the dinghy and lets you glide through the water, coming up to breathe whenever you want by just tilting the Subwing upwards.  Who needs towable inflatables when you can dive below the water and release your inner dolphin!  There’s a range of funky colours and designs and a range of accessories too, like a GoPro mount.  See the range of designs here!

Freediving Fins

Evan has put freediving fins on his Christmas list.  He’s very excited about the prospect of freediving somewhere blue and warm.  He wants “those freediving fins that make you look like a dolphin”.  So a monofin then.  I think I’d prefer normal freediving fins but I’m not fussy.

 

Mini Dive Compressor

Can I have a dive compressor please?  With four divers on board we hope to eventually be able to fill our own cylinders without relying on local dive shops, of which there may be none where we plan to go!   Compressors can run on petrol or electricity and come in a variety of sizes.

Suunto Dive Computer

Suunto make the best dive computers in the world.  Fact.  We’ve always had Suunto dive computers.  I bought my first one over twenty years ago.  Sam and Evan are now qualified PADI Junior Open Water divers and have their own Suunto dive watches.  Mine and Dez’s are quite old now and we’ll be replacing them with something like the sexy D4i, but not yet as there’s nothing wrong with the ones we have now.  Check out the range of Suunto Diving computers at www.suunto.com  or your local dive shop.

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That’s my cool boat stuff list for now.  If you know of any other gear and gadgets that we will probably want, pop it in the comments below.  We’re always looking for more and even cooler cool boat stuff!     Read ‘10 Must have Boat Gadgets for Sailing and Travel‘ for more ideas.