Marina bin finds

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Shower block finds could potentially be another thread, but hanging around them would not be a great idea !
 

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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 ?
I've just chucked a memory foam mattress topper less than a year old as I'm selling my boat and wanted it uber decluttered. It disappeared within an hour.
Searush on here used to run an online recycling site but he no longer seems to frequent this forum.
 

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Boat breakers in portsmouth/gosport sell used parts but some of the items can be cheaper new in a chandlery ?
 

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It wasn't a marina skip but one near where I was working in London at the time (early 80's)an office was being cleared and on the top of the skip was an IBM electric typewriter, I was starting a part -time Masters dégrée at the time and thought that's perfect for essay writing etc. so grabbed it and ran. When I got it home a quick clean up and it worked perfectly, come two years later , time to type up my dissertation, and Dixon's were offering a trade value of £100 if you bought an Amstrad word processor, so traded one free IBM for a £100 discount on an Amstrad Word Processor which I did my dissertation with and learned the basics of word processing at the same time. Still have the Amstrad lurking in the loft.
 
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I am embarrassed to say that I retrieved a toilet from a marina skip. Rather desperate one may think as well as a pretty manky thing to do. However, it was the Blakes Lavac Zenith, the same as fitted to my boat, and the bowls are not longer made. The seat and lid were still attached and these are very expensive to replace. After a clean down it is now stored at home as a spare part. I know that lavies are very low cost these days, even at marina prices, but the Zenith is a large diameter bowl and therefore a bit more comfy, so worth the indignity of skip diving, in this case.
 

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I sold a Vega a few years ago to someone from Manchester, he was a really annoying person, he switched the radio off without asking when i was entering port after a test sail, i told him he was a pillock and not to touch anything, i expected to lose the sale, but he went ahead and paid me, i got a phone call from the marina asking who he was, he had just dragged a mattress from the skip and put it in the boat, later in the week he asked two people from the club to help him sail over to Piel island, he fed them Coffee and big slices of roast ham, they remarked how good it was, his reply was, you would be amazed at what people throw in the skip!:D
 

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, it was the Blakes Lavac Zenith,
Seasure sell the complete zenith toilet for £228. Not sure if you are aware? Bargain when a baby blake lid,seat and hinge comes in at £836
They also sell a electric conversion pump for the zenith and baby blake but the blake is poa .. would love to see how its connected and how it works
 

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Large off cuts of marine plywood the other day, a perfectly good boathook, a captains seat which I flogged on eBay for £30, lots of good rope, a meths cooker, a perfectly good deck scrubber that had a broken handle.
Lots of stuff over the years. A guy I once worked with used to drive around the skips and take anything that looked ok, then he would sell it in the car boot sales.
 

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A company who also have a line in high end branded clothing through sponsors used to throw out last years range when the new range came in... the marina staff were well dressed.
Some items found their way onto ebay. Next thing is police turn up as the person selling the clothing was accused of stealing it from the said company premises :eek:
It was resolved once they understood it came from the bins.
Now the company still throw out last years unused clothing, but chop it up first :mad:
Anyone want to buy a branded offshore sailing jacket, never used, 50% off ;)
 

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A seldon spiny pole had a seized clamp... bit of wd40 and a tidy up all sorted... it had a j length of a yacht about 50 foot long...

sold it on eBay for 400 pounds... even delivered it to a marina in Poole...
 

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⬆ . That's good because a half full or less wheely bin with 4 wheels is a bugger to reach into .
Tipping them onto their side makes it easier.
 

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I once got two perfectly serviceable lengths of 3' hose out of a skip in Tobermory marina. All that was wrong with them was some old Nutella had got wedged down them for some reason. I put them both to my lips and blew hard to move the blockage and voila. One I used as a new deck fitting to fresh water tank hose, the other is a flexible outlet on my Eberspacher...
 
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