I am becoming green!!

[Nostrodamus]

I don't know just when and how it happened but I am becoming a "green" or even a bit of a bag man.
I cannot throw rubbish away without first having a quick look in the bin to see if there is anything I might be able to use somewhere. Some people cannot pass a mirror without looking at it.. I do the same with skips!
In this throwaway world we will spend an hour sowing something back up rather than spending a pound on a new one.
Good clothes get worn and then demoted to working clothes and eventually cut up into rags for cleaning.
When we ask where the supermarket is and the locals tell us we need to get a bus or taxi as it is too far to walk the 15 minutes there we enjoy the walk.
We try to wait for the right wind rather than motor.
Is it something that happens to all long term live aboards or are we just tight Northerners!

 

[NornaBiron]

we're tight too!

 

[sarabande]

you are casting off the constraints of your 'civilised' past, and beconming at one with your true inner self.

I bet your senses (smell, taste, awareness of wind and met) are all much sharper too.

Nostrohuman !

 

[Nostrodamus]

you are casting off the constraints of your 'civilised' past, and beconming at one with your true inner self.

I bet your senses (smell, taste, awareness of wind and met) are all much sharper too.

Nostrohuman !

Unfortunately I smoke so have lost the smell and taste thing but I have gone onto roll ups which is another conservation thing. As yet I haven't started picking up dog ends but never say never.

 

[sarabande]

I have gone onto roll ups which is another conservation thing.

The only thing that roll-ups are NOT conserving is your own body.


Give it up and spend the money you save on varnish.

 

[Nostrodamus]

The only thing that roll-ups are NOT conserving is your own body.


Give it up and spend the money you save on varnish.

My nails are looking fine thanks and also on a plastic fantastic you don't need much varnish. Even on the cockpit table several layers of varnish don't last a year in the sun. But I do take your point.

 

[duncan99210]

Welcome to the World Wide Federation of Dumpster Divers......

 

[Nostrodamus]

Welcome to the World Wide Federation of Dumpster Divers......

I hate to say it but it is amazing what people actually throw out as no good.
I am told one of the best places to be is at the start of the ARC where they change excellent working equipment just for the sake of changing it.

 

[chinita]

If you fancy a nice family day out I can recommend the great big tip about one mile north east of Europa Point.

 

[Nostrodamus]

If you fancy a nice family day out I can recommend the great big tip about one mile north east of Europa Point.

Come on... La Linea is not that bad

 

[capnsensible]

If you fancy a nice family day out I can recommend the great big tip about one mile north east of Europa Point.

Guess you mean the landfill site that will form the foundations for this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAiNTmwVIKs

Work continues but personally I dont think the end result will be quite as lavish as the vid. Not sure that the marina will be built. Time will tell....

 

[Sandyman]

I hate to say it but it is amazing what people actually throw out as no good.
I am told one of the best places to be is at the start of the ARC where they change excellent working equipment just for the sake of changing it.

Clipper Ventures do the same. After the race before last I got enough rope to last me years.
Most of it brand new & never used. No names of course but I even know of one who participates in these threads who had loads of rope away on its toes so to speak, and then offered it for sale on here

As for going Green...............certainly have far far less gash than in UK and we eat far better.

When in a marina 'never look a green wheelie bin in the mouth'

 

[ccscott49]

Welcome to the World Wide Federation of Dumpster Divers......

"Skip hounds" of the world unite!
I can't pass a skip without having a quick butchers, I get it from my dad, a natural re-cycler, before re-cycling! My bruvs are the same!! Found some great stuff though.

 

[Sandyman]

"Skip hounds" of the world unite!
I can't pass a skip without having a quick butchers, I get it from my dad, a natural re-cycler, before re-cycling! My bruvs are the same!! Found some great stuff though.

Chap in Gosport marina liked to recycle his batteries to this willing receiver

He had the frighteners that his batts would die on him, so at the start of every season he would replace them & put the year old ones in the battery dump. You could not even tell they had been connected, and he replaced the red & blue terminal covers.......good lad

When leaving his boat he would disconnect the batts. Season before last he only went out
on two weekends. What a good egg

 

[chinita]

Guess you mean the landfill site that will form the foundations for this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAiNTmwVIKs

Work continues but personally I dont think the end result will be quite as lavish as the vid. Not sure that the marina will be built. Time will tell....

I mean the tip about one mile from where the Europa Point bus terminates.

I made my acquaintance with this world heritage site after SWMBO kindly dumped our self steering gear packaging in the dumpster in Shepherds Yard (2002). Unfortunately, she did not remove the great big bag of expensive stainless steel nuts, bolts and washers before she dumped it

I only discovered this the next day (Saturday) and spent a delightful few hours rummaging around a very smelly tip.

I think the site actually burrows into the Rock and emerges on the other side.

 

[JustinC]

In my family these delightful hunting grounds you mention have been renamed 'Free Shops' to avoid embarassing the kids.

 

[duncan99210]

Chap in Gosport marina liked to recycle his batteries to this willing receiver

He had the frighteners that his batts would die on him, so at the start of every season he would replace them & put the year old ones in the battery dump. You could not even tell they had been connected, and he replaced the red & blue terminal covers.......good lad

When leaving his boat he would disconnect the batts. Season before last he only went out
on two weekends. What a good egg

Then there was this generous Italian chap at the end of the pontoon who removed 4 solar panels from the back of his boat to replace them with new ones. I tested them and found they worked just fine. So generous.

 

[Mistroma]

My prize find was about 60m of octoplait. Local powerboat dealer was having a 2nd hand show and brought all their boats to the marina I was visiting. They'd obviously hired some passing locals and asked them to clean up the boats. This obviously included the bits of "string" in the lockers so it all went into the skip.

I did try mentioning going around some boat that were open for a preview and mentioning that the slightly tatty anchors chart plotters were putting me off. No luck though, nothing like that turned up in the skip, just some useful bits & bobs. Still beats going to the chandlery.

 

[drawp]

I feel quite sad every time I visit our local recycling centre. They wont let me take home any of the bright shiney stuff from the scrap metal skip. I'm sure I could find a use for most of it.