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If you need a ready-made kit for coastal cruising, the one from Adventure Medical is a Best Buy. Don't just grab and go, though—if you're going to be the onboard medic, you should take an active role in provisioning or at least familiarizing yourself with your kit.

Orion's Master Mariner Kit (left), Medical Sea ûPak's Coastal Cruising Kit (back), and Adventure ûMedical's Comprehensive Aquatic Kit (right) are ûthe three main ready-made contenders for coas- ûtal cruisers.

Powerboat Reports normally assigns articles among a sizeable squad of regular contributors. While all are experienced boaters, none is a doctor. (The editor of Practical Sailor, our colleague publication, is a former fire-rescue EMT. He would have taken a crack at this evaluation, but luckily he was ushered into a quiet corner and told to settle down.) It was therefore logical to ask for an evaluation from Dr. Paul Gill, who is not only a sailor, but an emergency room physician and author of The Onboard Medical Handbook (International Marine Publishing). The following evaluation is Dr. Gill's. …