alahol2
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The Plastimo Schooner range...
"Not affected by heeling..." does this mean you never spill anything when heeled?
"Not affected by heeling..." does this mean you never spill anything when heeled?
Onboard Dinner Sets
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prv
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Looks quite good to me, if only it didn't have the rather cheesy decoration on everything.
Pete
Robin
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We used china plates and glass glasses on all our sailing boats, with a few plastic ones for cockpit use in heavy weather. The key is to arrange proper storage, with letterbox type or stacking type plate stowage and glass holders. On our last saily boat we had vertical bin type stowages for plates, a horizontal locker with moveable pegs to hold bowls of various sizes and a locker I fitted with a thick foam pad in the bottom with cutouts for our collection of stemmed wine glasses, stowed upside down, plus we had nice (engraved with boat name crystal gin/whisky tumblers which sat in two teak racks on a bulkhead. We now live on a mobo and nothing much has changed except we now travel more or less upright.
One useful aid to protecting china plates is non slip material. On our last boat with vertical bin plate stowage we put a disc of thick plastic non slip (sold in chandlers as coasters), between each plate and we do the same on our flat stacked plates on our current boat except the non slip is the thing bobbly stuff often sold as shelf liner material, but ours bought in a USA supermarket were again sold as discs, in this case in packs of 3 for use as grippers for opening screw top jars.
I don't remember when we last broke a plate or a glass, but I do remember being offered drinks on other boats from 'orrible plastic glasses, yuk!
One useful aid to protecting china plates is non slip material. On our last boat with vertical bin plate stowage we put a disc of thick plastic non slip (sold in chandlers as coasters), between each plate and we do the same on our flat stacked plates on our current boat except the non slip is the thing bobbly stuff often sold as shelf liner material, but ours bought in a USA supermarket were again sold as discs, in this case in packs of 3 for use as grippers for opening screw top jars.
I don't remember when we last broke a plate or a glass, but I do remember being offered drinks on other boats from 'orrible plastic glasses, yuk!
Ex-SolentBoy
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That Corelle stuff looks ok for plates but once tied up I see no reason not to have proper glassware for proper drinks. You need a good cupboard to store I all, but that's not difficult.
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To save space have proper stemless crystal like this http://www.riedel.co.uk/index.php/riedel/riedel-o.html
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To save space have proper stemless crystal like this http://www.riedel.co.uk/index.php/riedel/riedel-o.html
Modulation
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Melamine is fine but don't put it in a microwave. Acrococ glass stuff is cheap and very robust. think it' sFrench but you can get it here, certainly the glasses. It'll often survive being dropped.
Seajet
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Threads like this make one proud to be British ! 
Frankie-H
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Wedgewood. If you buy a big enough service, the odd breakage will not matter too much.
Not Lakesailoring I hope. Just agreeing.
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Rigger Mortice
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We use china most of the time, but we have a few bits of plastic for use when we're underway and it's bumpy. And a couple of insulated stainless mugs for drinks/soup and the occasional instant meal.
