I’ve packed long nose tweezers in the toolbox for quite a while. It’s easy to spot jobs under deck of the boat where mere fingers will not do.

At the Club last Sunday I happened to see these in use – narrow nose self gripping tweezers. Ideal. You see those little ratchet surfaces near the thumb grips – that’s how they lock themselves closed.

It’s funny how you can assume tools like this must be really pricey. If you look on amazon you’ll find them for around £6-£7 a time. Amazingly from the Amazon fishing tackle section. Dead cheap frankly. You can get them in differing lengths 6, 8, 10 inches and more. I figure that as well as self gripping, the sheer lengthy if these is dead useful. Takes up very little space in the toolbox either.

If you have a Marblehead anyway, this is a way to work in those long thin under the deck situations.