Clear Out Time

[sailorgirl]

In preparation for casting off in a couple of months time (gosh is that all) I've today ousted the following from various lockers on the boat:
1 hand mincer & attachments
8 sweetcorn holders
6 teaspoons with cracked plastic handles
1 rusting potato peeler
2 tatty bottle openers/corkscrews from hotels
3 single duvet covers (I have kept the other 2 just in case)
1 beige Laura Ashley travel blanket
1 orange checked cotton kingsized bedspread
1 Girl Guide campfire blanket complete with toggle fastenings and lots of badges
1 pair of floral oven gloves
1 stylish laptop cover (I'd forgotten about this and recently bought a new one!)
3 torches that didn't work last season or the one before, that someone said they'd "fix"

All tucked away in places so secure you'd never remember they were there if you'd needed them, most came on board from our previous boat in 2000 and probably haven't been used since!

Anyone else like to own up to some odd junk on board?

 

[Poignard]

Shouldn't this be in the For Sale forum?

 

[sailorgirl]

Shouldn't this be in the For Sale forum?

Not selling just junking.... unless of course someone wants to wander down the pontoon and take it off my hands!

 

[Whiskey Bravo]

In preparation for casting off in a couple of months time (gosh is that all) I've today ousted the following from various lockers on the boat:
1 hand mincer & attachments
8 sweetcorn holders
6 teaspoons with cracked plastic handles
1 rusting potato peeler
2 tatty bottle openers/corkscrews from hotels
3 single duvet covers (I have kept the other 2 just in case)
1 beige Laura Ashley travel blanket
1 orange checked cotton kingsized bedspread
1 Girl Guide campfire blanket complete with toggle fastenings and lots of badges
1 pair of floral oven gloves
1 stylish laptop cover (I'd forgotten about this and recently bought a new one!)
3 torches that didn't work last season or the one before, that someone said they'd "fix"

All tucked away in places so secure you'd never remember they were there if you'd needed them, most came on board from our previous boat in 2000 and probably haven't been used since!

Anyone else like to own up to some odd junk on board?

SWMBO? Running for cover!

 

[Blueboatman]

Nope, we is lean, mean, and keen on spare things , things like spare water pumps, shower pumps, seawater pumps, bilge pumps, loo pumps, engine pumps... And in another locker, nah ain't gong there...oh, all right, there is the stuff used to make stuff. Then there is a locker for sticking stuff to other stuff. And undoing stuff. And stitching stuff.
But I am reasonably disciplined on spare potato peelers and magazine racks . Ah, the bookcase....

 

[dunmor]

Mincer??

 

[prv]

Overhauled the first aid kit the other day, and found a (beautifully wrapped) paper parcel of triangular bandages from 1972. That's ten years older than me.

Still, bandages don't go off, so I chucked them back in

Pete

 

[ronmarson]

Sold a Jaguar 22 last year and in the clean out I discovered 13 woollen hats.
I think they were breeding in the lockers.

 

[sailorgirl]

Good job I don't have any out of date pyrotechnics to lob your way!

 

[sailorgirl]

They breed here too, had a bit of clear out of hats last year so not going to their box at present just in case!

 

[sailorgirl]

That device you stuff meat or onion in then push it in with your fingers as you turn the handle and find they are caught in the inner workings too... nowadays I prefer the quick clean slice of a blender!

 

[Wandering Star]

That device you stuff meat or onion in then push it in with your fingers as you turn the handle and find they are caught in the inner workings too... nowadays I prefer the quick clean slice of a blender!

Could be useful for preparing meals made from roadkill or knackered horses.

Cheers, Brian.

 

[Seajet]

There are certain lockers I'd only open if I had a gun and a torch as in NCIS...latest find was antique Butterscotch Angel Delight.

 

[Daydream believer]

In preparation for casting off in a couple of months time (gosh is that all) I've today ousted the following from various lockers on the boat:
1 hand mincer & attachments
8 sweetcorn holders
6 teaspoons with cracked plastic handles
1 rusting potato peeler
2 tatty bottle openers/corkscrews from hotels
3 single duvet covers (I have kept the other 2 just in case)
1 beige Laura Ashley travel blanket
1 orange checked cotton kingsized bedspread
1 Girl Guide campfire blanket complete with toggle fastenings and lots of badges
1 pair of floral oven gloves
1 stylish laptop cover (I'd forgotten about this and recently bought a new one!)
3 torches that didn't work last season or the one before, that someone said they'd "fix"

All tucked away in places so secure you'd never remember they were there if you'd needed them, most came on board from our previous boat in 2000 and probably haven't been used since!

Anyone else like to own up to some odd junk on board?

Wow ! I would hang on to that lot
Sounds handy if you never use it

 

[charles_reed]

My sympathy - it's bad enough on the boat where an annual locker-investigation finds the most useless things - but infinitely worse in the house where we have a cellar and a loft.

 

[bitbaltic]

Overhauled the first aid kit the other day, and found a (beautifully wrapped) paper parcel of triangular bandages from 1972. That's ten years older than me.

Still, bandages don't go off, so I chucked them back in

Pete

I don't understand that at all, i am left with the impression that you have been blithely putting to sea with a first aid kit which you haven't prepared so presumably inherited, and haven't checked through, until this winter. Bit worrying considering they're pretty critical bits of kit and very cheap in boots!

Cheers

 

[Tomahawk]

I have lots of compounds for doing little GRP fabrication jobs here and there..
I was thinking of dumping them as it is all weight and space and am I really going to start fabricating something?

Then I dinged the bow whilst mooring up... So glad I have resin, matting, filler, coludal silica powder, Grinders, sanding machine.... and gell coat and catalyst...

I really don't want to carry the stuff but I am terried (well more like worried) that if I dump it I will need it...