Non-sailing gear on boats
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Topic: Non-sailing gear on boats
Posted By: timeintheboat
Subject: Non-sailing gear on boats
Date Posted: 12 May 11 at 10:18pm
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Having just spent some time on the chicken flavoured and other
such sites and parted with what seems like a lot of hard earned for not
too much I was thinking what (else) could I use from the real world
on my boat(s). At the moment it seems - not much. My gloves all come from Screwfix and I'm looking at them for sunglasses next (DeWalt). My halyard tidy is a camping thing from Towsure, I've used the half a millk bottle for a bailing bucket in the past, I heard about using carbon fishing poles for tiller extensions though have never felt the need as yet. I use a leak sealant from Screwfix instead of silkaflex. Padded cycling pants/shorts are great. I sure I could do better than that. ------------- Like some other things - sailing is more enjoyable when you do it with someone else |
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Posted By: Wee Man
Date Posted: 13 May 11 at 6:31am
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I've used beer cans to shim up worn pilons on a Hobie 16, cut up milk cartons to make shims for the rudders on the same boat and used the end of the beer cans as dust caps for the trailer (still working well). I use screwfix gloves as well, the yellow ones.
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Posted By: patj
Date Posted: 13 May 11 at 9:03pm
Dinghy boots, wetsuits and offshore jackets and dungarees are available from Lidl cheaply.
Our favourite lubricant (apart from beer) is silicon spray sold for machine knitters to spray yarn to help it flow through the machine. Comes from BSK in Bedford and is great for mast and boom tracks, kites and chutes and blocks. But NOT sidedecks 
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Posted By: drifter
Date Posted: 14 May 11 at 11:12am
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Bolle safety sunglasses from tooled-up. Look great, do the businessand won't embed themselves in your eyes if you get hit in the face by the boom. And under a tenner a pair. ------------- Stewart |
Posted By: English Dave
Date Posted: 14 May 11 at 5:36pm
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Having broken the carbon tiller on my 700 twice now I now have a choice of alternatives. An aluminium landing pole 2.5m free and discarded from my local tackle shop or a steel garden stake 2.1m long which was £3.99 from B&Q. At the moment the garden stake is winning as it doesn't fill with water. However, I am resigned to having to replace it as it will rust although the rubberised power-coat is surprisingly durable. Both options are heavier than the carbon original, by about 200g! ------------- 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 |