Marina bin finds

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It's quite amazing what can be had from the bins.
5 years ago I had a nice aerogen 4 wind generator. Just needed a brush spring and has been running perfectly ever since.
I swear people throw away perfectly good rope just because it's dirty. I had so much rope I couldn't give it away!
Fenders are often fished out of the marina, stored for use in storms then thrown out as they become too numerous. Fenders and rope is something I've hardly ever bought ?
Today's find is a weatherman radiotelex with aerial, rrp today £300 and there is nothing wrong with it!
Do people use these things and are they worth having ?
 

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The trick is to get to the bins before they get changed for empty ones, or have a sneaky look each time you pass. If you find it embarrassing then use the pretense of opening the bin to dispose of a sweet wrapper ?
I guess I should also thank the many that feed the bins with goodies so that others may make use or repair discarded items

Should I ask "can the guy also bin the manual for the weatherman" ?
 

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As I posted before, I once put a 6' length of toilet outlet hose, cut in two, into the skip at Tobermory. It was blocked to perhaps 1/4" inside diameter with encrusted brown sticky stuff. When I went back ten minutes later to dump some other stuff, the hose - about ten quid's worth from Seafare, new - had gone.
 
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Once fund a Raymarine radome in a marina bin. Plugged it into my SL72 and boom, a fully functional radar. It even had the expensive radar cable with it.
 

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Where my aunt lives in SW Germany they have one day every month (first Tuesday, I think) when everyone is encourage to leave any working appliances or furniture they don't want on the pavement for anyone who wants to take. Some people get rid of stuff they don't want, some people get stuff they want for free and a lot less perfectly usable stuff is saved from recycling/landfill. Maybe marinas here could do something similar - an annual free boat jumble.
 

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As I posted before, I once put a 6'length of toilet outlet hose, cu in two, into the skip at Tobermory. It was blocked to perhaps 1/4" inside diameter with encrusted brown sticky stuff. When I went back ten minutes later to dump some other stuff, the hose - about ten quid's worth from Seafare, new, had gone.

That reminds me of a TV item when eBay was new; someone tried out the "money for old rope" trope by selling some flotsam. It worked!

Nowadays we have Freecycle/Freegle: Freegle - Don't throw it away, give it away!
 

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Once fund a Raymarine radome in a marina bin. Plugged it into my SL72 and boom, a fully functional radar. It even had the expensive radar cable with it.

Right now my Dad's shed contains a Furuno raydome and most of the bits for a complete vacuflush toilet system. The display for the radar is in the loft. If I'd had my wits about me I would have sold everything the moment I removed it when I knew it worked but that means advertising it and working out how you're going to post it and I was doing other things at the time. Now I have the added complication that I don't know if it still works so would need to test it before selling. Or wait for a "trade in your old radar for £250 off a new one" offer from raymarine.

Sometimes chucking perfectly good stuff away ends up being better than storing it for 10 years, especially if some nice person in the marina gets to recycle it.

If anyone is interested in a possibly-working furuno 1720 or vacuflush bits pm me :)
 

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I have had good rope from the bin but the best was two complete sets of Musto Ocean Oilskins. I gave them to the Wolverstone Project who use them on their boats out of Harwich YC. They are in great demand evidently. I think they came from the sea school.
I did have a bit of luck once. I had one of those Carbon pole things to hang my spring warp on and pick up as you come alongside the pontoon. It got broken off by persons unknown over the winter when others were using my berth whilst my boat was ashore. A few weeks later when walking past the bins I saw at the side an aluminium pole gadget with the spring on the end which does the same job. Fixed it on my pontoon and a result. Not often that I am that lucky.
 

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Where my aunt lives in SW Germany they have one day every month (first Tuesday, I think) when everyone is encourage to leave any working appliances or furniture they don't want on the pavement for anyone who wants to take. Some people get rid of stuff they don't want, some people get stuff they want for free and a lot less perfectly usable stuff is saved from recycling/landfill. Maybe marinas here could do something similar - an annual free boat jumble.

Brilliant idea. In fact something similar has been happening locally during Covid-19, with a lot of kids bikes and toys in particular being popular for people who couldn’t get to shops.
Of course Freecycle and Gumtree online sites are great for finding new homes for stuff which would otherwise be binned.
 

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20Kg Delta anchor, just needs re-galvanizing.
Icom VHF radio.
60mm thick mooring lines, Now made into topside fenders, perfect for box moorings.
 

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Where my aunt lives in SW Germany they have one day every month (first Tuesday, I think) when everyone is encourage to leave any working appliances or furniture they don't want on the pavement for anyone who wants to take. Some people get rid of stuff they don't want, some people get stuff they want for free and a lot less perfectly usable stuff is saved from recycling/landfill. Maybe marinas here could do something similar - an annual free boat jumble.
That happed in Madrid,lots of useful furniture for students
 

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Titchmarsh Marina Chandlery has an area where people can bring unused equipment and put it up for sale. The Chandlery takes a smallish cut, and persons putting stuff up for sale can either take the money themselves or donate it to the RNLI (the price label usually states if it's a donation). It's very useful; I acquired an unused 100w semi-flexible solar panel for a very reasonable price - someone had over-bought. The Chandlery reserves the right not to accept anything that is total junk, but on the whole, if it's usable, they will put it on the shelf!
 

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I have a boatfull of nice jackets and trousers, in good condition and can only assume they were binned because they dont match the latest fashion colours. Plenty of good servicable lifejackets too.
I now remember a potentially great bin find some 15-20 years ago..
Watched a guy i know carrying lots of office and computer equipment to an empty bin. always good to have cables as they were more expensive back then... Waited until he was gone and looked into the bin, had a dig and omg, there is a breitling watch !! its got to have come off this guys wrist when he was placing all the stuff in the bin ? One good turn deserves another, karma and all that so i accidently on purpose bumped into him, chatted a little then asked him what the time was. you should have seen his face when he looked at his wrist !!!
"Lost something" i enquired ? I wont repeat what he said :eek: then put my hand in my pocket and said "does it look like this" ? Needless to say he was an extremely happy chappy.
He ran a business making spray hoods, boom covers etc.. I needed a boom cover so mentioned it. A week later he gave me a quotation, lets just say it was my turn to say &%$*&$^*...
How tight can one be? Absolutely squat didly for returning a rather valuable item.. Cheers mate !
Im just waiting for the day someone throws a 50ft oyster in the bin ;)
 
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