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Old 08-11-2007
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Yeah, NYS sure did have words to say about that.

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A good way to protect glass bottles at sea is to slip them in old socks, the ones that have lost a mate or gotten "holy" work fine. If you are getting water in gallon jugs, I'd suspect you could drop each jug in an old t-shirt (neck hole down) and get similar chafe protection. Good enough way to store the "I can only use these for painting" t-shirts anyway.
If you carry Tyvek envelopes (Fedex, USPS, etc. large mailers) or pick up some sheets of Tyvek at a hardware store (sold as "home wrap") that also makes good chafe protection, very hard to wear through, nice and slick, and of course you can also send out overnight parcels with it.
Also makes a good gasket material to replace thin paper gaskets, quite handy to have a few on board.
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