SpillNot cup holder

That looks useful. Simple but effective design, helps to combat a well known problem. Looks very easy to copy, are they on ebay yet?
 
Ripster said:
That looks useful. Simple but effective design, helps to combat a well known problem. Looks very easy to copy, are they on ebay yet?
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Yes, isn't it just a high-tech (meaning over-engineered) version of the hanging tray used to carry hot drinks such as apple tea in Turkey & middle east?

Mike.
 
davidej said:
I had some beer can holders a bit like that but made of s/s wire. I can't seem to find replacements.

Anybody got an idea?
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Now that Waitrose are offering free coffees in the shop I have made a hanger to hook on a shopping trolley in which to put the cardboard cup. Main component is heavy-gauge plastic covered wire from a garden centre. But haven't remembered to take it with me on visits when I have had a coffee...

Mike.
 
clever idea but maybe not that practical on the deck of a yacht. There's nothing to stop a cup/can getting blown off the side in a breeze.
 
Neat idea-for boating they would be better with an all round deep lip-and they look pretty easy to make.

Ever since we started sailing in 2002 we have used four of the excellent "Alladin" mugs.

They are the right shape, wide at the bottom, narrow at the mouth, like a proper sea kettle, and have good non slip pads on the base.

They hold about a pint, half full they will not spill, even when its a bit lively.

We eat from them, drink from them and First Mate has just started sending small bottles up inside them. The bottles would normally be all over the cockpit, but not inside the mugs.

12 years only one accident. I put one, half full of tomato soup, on the high side.

We fell into a trough off Alderney with a bit of a thump and the cockpit went orange.

It was soon cleared up with the cockpit shower head by flushing it down the cockpit drains, but we found little orange specks for weeks afterwards!
 
davidej said:
I had some beer can holders a bit like that but made of s/s wire. I can't seem to find replacements.
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I was on a yacht crossing the Channel with those wire thingies fitted to the top safety line and beer cans resting therein. Went over a particularly aggressive wake from a tanker and both holders (and beer) did a pirouette and jumped off into the oggin!! Not impressed.
 
rotrax said:
12 years only one accident. I put one, half full of tomato soup, on the high side.

We fell into a trough off Alderney with a bit of a thump and the cockpit went orange.

It was soon cleared up with the cockpit shower head by flushing it down the cockpit drains, but we found little orange specks for weeks afterwards!
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Reminds me of sailing back from Brittany to Cornwall some years ago, single-handed in a 22 footer. Conditions were a little boisterous, I was very tired, and though not a great fan of cup-a-soups, it was the only hot thing practical at the time. As the little boat was thrashing about it took ages, huge effort, a few bruises, and much aggravation to get the kettle filled, boiled, and the powder and at least some of the boiling water into the cup.

I placed the cup up in the cockpit, very much looking forward to having something warm to consume at last, and hauled my weary bones up the companionway steps into the cockpit, in the process kicking the bloody cup over!

I was so angry and frustrated I was spluttering and on the edge of tears. To add insult to the loss of the anticipated soup, it had gone all over the genoa and main sheets lying (in those conditions) in the bottom of the cockpit.

It was not the sort of boat that sported a cockpit shower (cf the story above), and in the seastate pertaining the resultant mess, and nauseating smell, remained largely not cleared up until the following day, but with 'bits' turning up long after.
 
Seajet said:
I notice these wide base anti-spill mugs, in blue, are used on Deep Space 9; so they must be good to survive to the 24th Century, though I imagine they're not such a pain to stow on a space station as they are on a boat...:rolleyes:

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=anti+spill+mugs+wide+base&tbm=isch&imgil=2JL1g4to0Op3kM%3A%
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Some of those look good. The Alladin ones are plastic and insulated, also not so radicaly shaped. We eat food like stew and First Mates breakfast mix from them.

Her breakfast mix is a small tin of potatoes, cut up small, fried with small pieces of bacon and then scrambled with several eggs. Fits on a spoon very well. Yum Yum!

They come with a spill proof clip on lid, but we have never used them. That may have been a mistake on the Tomato soup day..................................
 
The problem with wide based cups is as SeaJet says stowing them...

We are equipped with Berghaus mugs that did not break the bank are S/S insulated rubber base with lid (although we normally do not bother).

Roughly square in shape they have never fallen over, even when with minimal ullage and they have spilt due to tilting boat. I know the thin neck ones are less likely to spill, we have just leaned to time are brews so that we have time to drink enough before we tack :D.

Most cups of this ilk are designed for travel so have a narrow base that you cannot put down unless you have cup holder near by :confused:.

As for original cup holder it goes to me with the hanging glass that nauticalia used to sell...
 
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