Lovely morning for the Solent Boat Jumble - shame about the tat

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Just had a lovely walk over to Royal Victoria Country Park where I spent two hours and about £40 on bits I probably don't really need, and oh yes, a bacon and mushroom toastie.

But what I don't understand is why so many sellers think the boating public will buy detritus they should have binned years ago, indeed much of it part found safety equipment new and functioning in the 1970's. I am sure much of this tat was the same I saw there last year, and probably the year before.

Got an interesting response from the RNLI Safety advisor regarding LED / Laser Flares - apparently presently I have to decide as no authoritative advice is available yet. Has anyone worked out how to project a Laser Flare up to 2,000' ?

Quite a few reasonably priced sellers of zinc and alumium anodes. Same variety of beaten up fenders, old seatoilets, and used thru hull fittings - would any one actually ever use one of these ?

What bargains did anyone else find ?
 
4 x large blue Marjoni Fenders with ropes £12 the lot.
1 x 1.2Mtr square fire blanket (unused in pack) £2
1 x Raymarine ST 1000+ Tiller pilot with all fittings, shown working on 12V battery £100
1 x Vtronix combined VHF aerial/Windex £5
1 box of Navico Corus depth, speed, wind instruments with all cables, manuals etc (not tested but willing to chance for a tenner!!)
1 x Karcher K5.700 (the BIG one) not working (but is now!!) £40

I think it was well worth going!!
 
It's the "tat" that differentiates a jumble from a chandlery. But then I love used books & have a number of ancient bits of kit for which I would like to find replacement parts. Sometimes it's fun to find stuff & try to work out what it is.

Useful to remember sometimes that we are not all the same & all may want different things.
 
superheat6k said:
Got an interesting response from the RNLI Safety advisor regarding LED / Laser Flares - apparently presently I have to decide as no authoritative advice is available yet. Has anyone worked out how to project a Laser Flare up to 2,000' ?
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They have different functions. A tradition flare is chucked up into the sky to attract attention and should get a "what the f**k was that" reaction followed by a second one what gets and "oh b***er I better call the CG". A laser flare is a longer term light and I'd use it after the "what the f**k was that" and "the oh b***er" one to mark the my position.

Of course in this hi tech world well before I use the flares International Rescue would have picked up my distress signal in Thunderbird 5 and Thunderbirds 1, 3 and 4 would have been launched :)
 
I had a great time at the West of Scotland boat jumble on Sunday, though for once I didn't buy anything at all. Traders a bit thinner on the ground than usual, which I gather was probably because of the clash with the Solent event.
 
If the weather is less than clear (this is the UK after all) then a powerful laser shone upwards is likely to hit clouds. Many entertainment & advertising laser shows rely on this & smoke or moisture in the air to produce their displays.

Whether a land based non-boater would recognise it as a form of distress signal is a completely different issue.
 
Camelia said:
They have different functions. A tradition flare is chucked up into the sky to attract attention and should get a "what the f**k was that" reaction followed by a second one what gets and "oh b***er I better call the CG". A laser flare is a longer term light and I'd use it after the "what the f**k was that" and "the oh b***er" one to mark the my position.
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Thing is, the people who most want laser flares are those who want to get the pyros off their boats. So they don't have a "WTF?" or "oh bugger!" one to use first.

(Their thinking of course is that they'll have already done the "call the CG" bit themselves via VHF or EPIRB, and maybe they're right. Let's not turn this into yet another debate on that subject :) )

Pete
 
Camelia said:
Of course in this hi tech world well before I use the flares International Rescue would have picked up my distress signal in Thunderbird 5 and Thunderbirds 1, 3 and 4 would have been launched :)
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No they won't. You can't launch Thunderbird 4 without launching Thunderbird 2 first. :D
 
I too have noticed the proliferation of knackered garbage being hawked around at various south coast jumbles.
However, in answer to Searushes comment, I also like to find interesting stuff to refurb, and have picked up some good stuff for peanuts that just requires a bit of initiative and elbow grease to sort out. But a lot of what is offered was beyond that stage 30 years ago, long before it had been dragged all around the place and thrown in and out of an equally shagged out transit van 10 times a season for the last God knows how many seasons.
 
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