Some mugs bought some mugs for the boat

Bit of a drift - but not a subject worth a separate thread! We have used small cylindrical glass tumblers for years, which save space by fitting neatly in a standard size earthenware mug (D 7cm H 9cm). Down to the last one and can't seem to find anything similar.
 
prv said:
That said, last time I bought a load of pint glasses for home, a lot of the ones online were made of safety glass, like a car windscreen, to stop chavs glassing each other in pubs. Maybe that's what I should have got for the boat.

Pete
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I intend to replace our glassware with tempered stuff. Keep meaning to order some of these www.barmans.co.uk/products/product.asp?ID=3147 for the vino but haven't got round to it yet and don't really need a dozen anyway.

Safe and stackable, so probably about as suitable as it gets for a boat. Saw them in a supermarket in Les Sables in packs of three, but also at about three times the price per glass so gave them a miss.
 
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When at anchor in port along the same lines as Snowleopard's souvenir mugs we've a collection of Portuguese earthenware bowls, pewter beer pots (yacht race prizes) as well as some Moroccan tea glasses. The latter were cheap, are stackable, seem indestructible and make pretty wine glasses. All in all our galley looks a bit like a junk shop but there is a memory behind each item!
 
Arcopal stuff is good. It's toughened glass but is opaque white. It feels like thin ceramic but is light and virtually indestructible. There are 2 designs that it comes in for boats - one is from Plastimo and is called "Blue Rope" design, the other is only found in mainland Europe, and is called "Navigare" design. Any UK chandler should be able to get the Plastimo type (if Plastimo is still in business). The Navigare one is here...

http://www.awn.de/Technik/Pantry+Kuehlung/Geschirr/Teller+Tassen/ARCOPAL+Bordgeschirr+Navigare.html
 
dylanwinter said:
buy cheap china and glasses

replace often

eclectic selection of styles, colours and patterns on Katie

the good survive - the bad die

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No, no ,no.

Proper crockery, proper glasses

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Just store them properly. We never broke a thing.

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Life is too short to eat and drink from plastic.

Apologies for the wine choice. All I could find in Fowey.
 
We have Mappin & Webb silver goblets for wine. Cheap off ebay, never used before we got them.
Edinburgh Crytal tumblers for whisky. Cheap off ebay again.
Plastic Pint Glasses for beer. Nicekd from various venues.
6 mini silver brandy balloons for shots, and ermm, brandy. ebay, ahem.
Normal China mugs (although 3 custom made Full Circle ones). Wherever we can find them. Only one went over the side in 8 years, but none broken.
Stainless thermal mugs for passage use.
Plates all Jeanneau Melamine but looking past thir best - will probably go with Ikea plain off white stuff - £18 for 18 piece set.

Lots of silicone bakeware, and fold flat mixing bowls.
 
nimbusgb said:
Mats and carpets on a boat!!!!!

Wine out of a plastic vessel is just nasty.
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Mats & carpets are comfortable to walk on with bare feet, weigh less than wood and aren't skiddy.

Some plastics are nasty to drink out of e.g. polythene. Some aren't e.g. polycarbonate.
 
snowleopard said:
Mats & carpets are comfortable to walk on with bare feet, weigh less than wood and aren't skiddy.

Some plastics are nasty to drink out of e.g. polythene. Some aren't e.g. polycarbonate.
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The pure joy in refraction of a candle through a wondrous glass of red cannot be achieved by plastic or even cheap glass glasses. So I choose to see the shiny reflection of the candle instead.:)
 
Cat dishes - they make excellent cat dishes. Last Forever.

SAPurdie said:
I bought cheap brown fake pyrex plates mugs and bowls about thirty years ago. I still have some left.

They bounce when dropped on board. They sink when dropped overboard. It's only when dropped onto stone or concrete piers that they break...
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Ex-SolentBoy said:
No, no ,no.

Proper crockery, proper glasses

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Just store them properly. We never broke a thing.

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Life is too short to eat and drink from plastic.

Apologies for the wine choice. All I could find in Fowey.
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+1

We use leaded glassware and bone china at anchor, we have hefty 'conical' mugs, big bases (obscurely - made in Denmark) for coffee on the move and large Pyrex mugs with plastic lids for one pot, full meals or soup on the go. We do not have any carpet on the boat, we sail barefoot (its a cat, its Oz).

Jonathan
 
There was a thread about glass vs. plastic on the cruisers forum.
If you think that the Middle East conflict causes heated exchanges, you should have seen some of the posts.

The someone advocated using metal crockery and the whole forum marched on their house with pitchforks and flaming torches!
 
Will the same happen when I say I have cheap (Ikea) plastic "glasses", plastic plates (from caravan shop), insulated metal cups (with lids), daughter still has her own Winni the Poo ones, tea and sugar kept in tubaware jars coffee is in sachets.

I think the only glass onboard is the oven door and the booze locker...

Its great, you can throw them in the sink form the cockpit, stand on them etc etc..

If the need appears to drink out of a glass its probably time for a run ashore :D
 
Mine are OK also with boiling hot water. I put some in the microwave too without consequence so far. Perhaps you were unlucky to pick a "china-se" set.
 
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