Priorities

[zoidberg]

In the next chapter of the never-ending refurb.....

....should I first extend the bookshelf before the wine store? Or the other way round?

And where can I buy a Spork, apparently a singlehander's 'must have' device.

 

[laika]

And where can I buy a Spork, apparently a singlehander's 'must have' device.

"Buy"?? Good grief have you mistaken this forum for scuttlebutt?

The itsu chain sell off their wares half price half an hour before closing time. They will supply you with a reusable plastic spork to eat your noodle soup with

 

[jordanbasset]

Get a kindle and use the spare space for a bigger wine store

 

[geem]

Get a kindle and use the spare space for a bigger wine store

Yep, 29,000 books on the laptop so no shortage of reading material but not having the front cover like a book I can never remember what I have read!

 

[jordanbasset]

Yep, 29,000 books on the laptop so no shortage of reading material but not having the front cover like a book I can never remember what I have read!

I'm looking forward to the time I can no longer remember reading a book and will be able to do with one book that I can read over and over again

 

[penberth3]

In the next chapter of the never-ending refurb.....

....should I first extend the bookshelf before the wine store? Or the other way round?

And where can I buy a Spork, apparently a singlehander's 'must have' device.

I wouldn't bother with a Spork, get a proper spoon.

 

[jwilson]

I wouldn't bother with a Spork, get a proper spoon.

In my primitive singlehanding days I have been known to use the canopener of my knife to open a can and then use the knife blade to eat the cold contents, foot hooked over tiller.

 

[sarabande]

Tins ? Tins ? There's posh for you. In my day signed on as a cabin boy, I was sent with a knife to hack of a piece of dried salt cow hanging in the forepeak, And as for greens, we had to scrape the lichens off the topmasts. Dead keen on the proper vitamins was the Master.

 

[DownWest]

I'm looking forward to the time I can no longer remember reading a book and will be able to do with one book that I can read over and over again

Don't wish for that... A Swedish friend had memory difficulties after tough cancer surgery. He only had three books. Still, he did remember at one lunch, that his great aunt was Hermann Georing's mistress.

 

[Stemar]

Get a kindle and use the spare space for a bigger wine store

Definitely the way to go. Otherwise, it isn't a wine store, just a ready use locker

 

[Graham376]

Get a kindle and use the spare space for a bigger wine store

Or a tablet which can do much more than a Kindle, thousands of free books on line.

 

[zoidberg]

A friend has pointed out that one of the pleasures of having a decent bookshelf on board is wandering up to one of the excellent nautical bookshops in most harbour-towns - e.g. Falmouth and Plymouth both have quite famous ones - or in some yacht clubs, and exchanging your read/redundant copies for fresh unread material. You can't really do that with empty wine bottles.....

....except, perhaps, in a few places in France.

 

[Neeves]

If you are a singlehanded then you have plenty of spare space for both - I don't see the issue.

And if you have the occasional crew they will be more than happy to berth anywhere dry as long a they can partake of the other (that sound very attractive) amenities.

Jonathan

 

[langstonelayabout]

In my primitive singlehanding days I have been known to use the canopener of my knife to open a can and then use the knife blade to eat the cold contents, foot hooked over tiller.

Many ladies never seem to grasp the appeal of our sport, do they?