This is an index, not a recommendation engine. Everything here is explained properly on the page it belongs to — what the problem actually is, and whether you need to solve it by buying anything at all. Several of these are things the boat already provides, and the pages say so.
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Motion sickness
The single most common reason a trip goes badly, and the one thing that has to be dealt with before you board rather than after.
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Sun protection
The sun on open water is stronger than the same sun on the beach, and there is no shade to retreat to for eight hours.
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On deck
Footwear and dry storage. A wet deck and a phone in a pocket are the two problems people solve too late.
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Coolers and fish handling
What happens to the catch between the cleaning table and your kitchen, which is the part most first-timers have not planned.
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Pier tackle
The one kind of fishing here where nobody hands you a rigged rod. On a pier the tackle is yours to bring.
What is not here
Rods, reels and terminal tackle for a charter trip, because the boat supplies them and buying your own to take on a chartered boat is money spent on a problem you do not have. The one exception is pier fishing, where nobody hands you a rigged rod and the tackle is genuinely yours to bring.
There are also no prices and no star ratings on this site. Prices move and this site has no feed to move with them; ratings would have to be invented, which is both dishonest and, in the United States, illegal.
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