Recycling old kit
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Topic: Recycling old kit
Posted By: jpbuzz591
Subject: Recycling old kit
Date Posted: 24 Feb 08 at 7:52pm
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In the days of global warming being a threat and such. Can sailing stuff be recycled? I have an old pair of boots sitting in the house, can they be reused in some way or just binned. Also, what do people do with their old sails? or is the garage stacked full of them?. ------------- Jp Indoe Contender 518 Buzz591 Chew Valley Sailing club Bristol |
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Posted By: Kudlinski
Date Posted: 24 Feb 08 at 7:56pm
all my old sails go on ebay, cant help with the boots etc I use mine until the disintegrate. ------------- RS400 866 RS300 381 |
Posted By: Mark Jardine
Date Posted: 24 Feb 08 at 8:36pm
| Sounds like we should make a new section on YachtsandYachting.com ! |
Posted By: Lukepiewalker
Date Posted: 24 Feb 08 at 8:39pm
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Old boots are ideal as padding while transporting, protecting the cover from the end of the boom, protecting the end of the boom from the cover... and so forth...
------------- Ex-Finn GBR533 "Pie Hard" Ex-National 12 3253 "Seawitch" Ex-National 12 2961 "Curved Air" Ex-Mirror 59096 "Voodoo Chile" |
Posted By: tmoore
Date Posted: 24 Feb 08 at 8:45pm
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i have seen this done and apparently it works a treat. old buoyency aids also make great padding for ratchet straps (cut two slits in the outer skin and pass the strap in (under the skin) and then out the other slit and the padding never falls off ------------- Landlocked in Africa RS300 - 410 Firefly F517 - Nutshell Micro Magic RC yacht - Eclipse |
Posted By: Villan
Date Posted: 24 Feb 08 at 8:58pm
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Just note ... *never* use that bouyancy aid again if you use it to pad a loading strap!!!
------------- Vareo - 149 "Secrets" http://www.TandyUKServers.co.uk" rel="nofollow - TandyUK Servers |
Posted By: radixon
Date Posted: 24 Feb 08 at 9:30pm
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EBAY all the way! Must admit, people buy what we call rubbish and pay money. If not gumtree or the local paper! you never know, someone may do a project and need stuff. ------------- |
Posted By: Merlinboy
Date Posted: 25 Feb 08 at 8:00am
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What can i do with my old Jock straps? must be some dinghy based solution!?? ------------- |
Posted By: English Dave
Date Posted: 26 Feb 08 at 11:27am
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http://www.freecycle.org - www.freecycle.org is worth a look. To join the club you have to "give" something away before you can start picking up stuff. Seems like a good idea.
------------- English Dave http://www.ballyholme.com - Ballyholme Yacht Club (You'd think I'd be better at it by now) Hurricane 5.9 SX RS700 |