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In all honesty I carry more knives than I need.
A Spyderco Salt Rescue folder on the lash tab of my PFD. Never needed it for rescue purposes, or for much else, can’t imagine paddling without it there.
Spyderco Salt sheath knife in my essentials bag. Kinda like Scoutergriz it gets used mostly for slicing meat and cheese, occasionally for cutting rope or line in camp, so overkill in that regard.
Also in the essentials bag, a Leatherman type tool and a Swiss Army Mechanics knife. Both because it is impossible to make repairs or tighten machine screw hardware with a Philips head and hold the nut if both tools are on the same knife.
Of the dozen fold-out implements on those two I mostly use the Swiss Army little scissors, and should probably replace both those knives with a small multi-head screwdriver, a double ended (3/8 and 7/16) box wrench and a pair of scissors more accessible than the EMT shears in the 1st aid bag.
In the cutting implement category the “tool” I use most often may be a pair of fingernail clippers. I keep my fingernails very short, and still manage to break a nail or two every trip. And a small retractable bypass pruner, for nipping greenbriar and small branches; much faster and safer than using an axe or saw for those purposes.
P9180031 by Mike McCrea, on Flickr
The “knife” I actually use the most? A nylon butter knife in the cookware set, for spreading peanut butter.
In everyday non-paddling travels I carry a small, slender, single blade Case folder in my pocket, but leave it home on trips. It has sentimental value, and is so small I fear I’d lose it on a trip.
A Spyderco Salt Rescue folder on the lash tab of my PFD. Never needed it for rescue purposes, or for much else, can’t imagine paddling without it there.
Spyderco Salt sheath knife in my essentials bag. Kinda like Scoutergriz it gets used mostly for slicing meat and cheese, occasionally for cutting rope or line in camp, so overkill in that regard.
Also in the essentials bag, a Leatherman type tool and a Swiss Army Mechanics knife. Both because it is impossible to make repairs or tighten machine screw hardware with a Philips head and hold the nut if both tools are on the same knife.
Of the dozen fold-out implements on those two I mostly use the Swiss Army little scissors, and should probably replace both those knives with a small multi-head screwdriver, a double ended (3/8 and 7/16) box wrench and a pair of scissors more accessible than the EMT shears in the 1st aid bag.
In the cutting implement category the “tool” I use most often may be a pair of fingernail clippers. I keep my fingernails very short, and still manage to break a nail or two every trip. And a small retractable bypass pruner, for nipping greenbriar and small branches; much faster and safer than using an axe or saw for those purposes.
P9180031 by Mike McCrea, on FlickrThe “knife” I actually use the most? A nylon butter knife in the cookware set, for spreading peanut butter.
In everyday non-paddling travels I carry a small, slender, single blade Case folder in my pocket, but leave it home on trips. It has sentimental value, and is so small I fear I’d lose it on a trip.
