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MoodySabre

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We used to be on a drying mooring so had melamine crocks. Having been in a marina for 8 years I'm FED UP with it and an upcoming birthday will see some improvement.

I read here ages ago that Corelle was well thought of. Is it worth buying comparatively expensive stuff like that or do you just head for Ikea and buy replacements if and when?

Unbreakable wine glasses are also much improved in recent years from the plastic ones we have.

I feel a bit more style coming on :cool:
 
We used to have plastic plates and I hated them. The problem was to find new plates that would fit the spaces on the boat. Eventually we found a set in Asda that could have been tailor made for the boat so we bought two sets to allow for the odd replacement. Proper crockery is so much nicer.
 
On a planing motor boat ( hence more bashing going on) we broke crockery only once - and that was so frightening that the fact the boat was in one piece really put the thought of broken crockery out of my mind.

It is pretty solid stuff. Drop it and it may break, but in cupboards you would be unlucky.
 
Maybe in a minority of one but I like having melamine plates. It gives a weekend's sailing some of the qualities of a childhood holiday (caravanning!). Mind you we do have rather nice melamine imported from the US. Camping stuff I agree is rubbishy and depressing on a boat!

Cheers
 
MoodySabre said:
We used to had melamine crocks. :cool:
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Oh, Roger, tut tut tut. plastic, oh dear oh dear oh dear. Still you've come round in your dotage. I regret to admit for glass I use Tesco's wine glasses on the basis that if one goes (which it hasn't but watch out now I've said that) it will be possible to replace. For side plates, main dinner plates, bowls we use a set from that tea company, Whittards. The right combination of solid and dependable. Of course being a MAB, I made the fiddles to fit the crockery and not the other way round.
 
We have white tempered glass plates from Tesco budget range. Very lightweight and strong - in seven years or so we've never had a breakage.
 
Sea sickness, in my mind, is indelibly associated with weak lukewarm instant coffee in polythene cups.
Now I have my own boat, we have a glass cafetiere and pottery mugs (mostly cheap ones); only broken one of each (due to carelessness) in several years sailing. Come on my boat; you can have a decent cup of coffee.

Plates etc: are Tupperware. Seems OK.
 
No glass on board except Marmite jar and wristwatch and baro. I sliced up my finger, changing the float switch, on a shard of glass in the bilge from some previous owner, thanks mate, gone but not forgotten.
 
MoodySabre said:
We used to be on a drying mooring so had melamine crocks. Having been in a marina for 8 years I'm FED UP with it and an upcoming birthday will see some improvement.

I read here ages ago that Corelle was well thought of. Is it worth buying comparatively expensive stuff like that or do you just head for Ikea and buy replacements if and when?

Unbreakable wine glasses are also much improved in recent years from the plastic ones we have.

I feel a bit more style coming on :cool:
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we have carrefore ceramic crocks & real glasses + real coffee
 
You all just remind me that somewhere I have a proper coffee percolator that you put on top of the gas ring. Must get some proper coffee before I go out tomorrow. Mind you I'm not sure where I put it. Probably with the Navtex aerial, handbearing compass and dividers that I can't find this Spring!
 
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