Reeds Looseleaf - alternative D ring binder?

[tonyleigh]

Apologies - just realised I posted this in SB in error - transferred here.
Has anyone sourced a D ring binder with 3 rings to match the punched holes of the current Reed's Looseleaf Almanac? A4 or quarto fine as long as the ring mechanism matches.
Alternatively, anyone devised an alternative system for carrying selected almanac sections on board?
Many thanks.

 

[alankilner]

I've put my east coast section in individual plastic sleeves and keep it in a plastic ring binder. You can get from both supermarkets now for pennies. Keeps it all dry in the cockit too. Just keep the main part on board for reference and dreaming about getting up to the west coast of Scotland!

 

[Artemis_C2121]

The three ring is the Americian std for that size paper dont know if you can get them here

 

[Ruffles]

Someone asked this question last year and the consensus was no.

I don't bother with the binder any more. I take the two sections I'm interested in and run a piece of lacing cord loosely through all 3 holes - knot at each end. Takes up less room on the table and fits in with the charts.

The rest goes back in the box at the bottom of a locker.

 

[BrendanS]

You can get folders with bound plastic transparent pockets that you put the paper into. Would that suffice? How many sheets do you need max on a trip?

 

[Elessar]

I laminate the pages I'm going to use, and punch them with a two hole punch. This is kept in a separate, waterproof binder with the rest of the pages available in the reeds binder for reference or if I go off piste.
Once laminated you can write on them in chinagraph to highlight bits and they become very robust and moisture resistant.

 

[grumpy_o_g]

I tried using a 3 ring binder which once had an exceedingly large operations manuals for derivatives or something similar in it. The holes match perfectly and the spine is a good 1" wider than the thickness of the Almanac but it's still very difficult to turn pages without tearing them. Trying to open it is a two handed operation. I don't know if the official binder is any better but I'd suggest the plastic sleeves option personally.

 

[tonyleigh]

Many thanks all for useful thoughts. I had originally dismissed the plastic folder option - too many pages. Ideally I would carry 402 of the 1005 pages on board when cruising but clearly these split into categories with very different usage patterns - reference through to cockpit pilotage. Think I'll try leaving 605 in the cardboard box at home and carry 402 in the original file on board along with a dozen or so plastic sleeves and a second file into which to insert the pilotage pages for the current passage. By making this latter A4 I can easily include other passage sheets. Incidentally the D rings on the current Almanac do seem to permit easy page turning.
Thanks all for input - has helped me to crystalise ideas.

 

[DavenHelen]

If you can find a local IT Department that used to run VMS operating system, they used to have walls of manuals, all in 3-ring US binders. I think we binned all ours.