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Originally Posted by hellosailor
Sailaway-
Yeah, NYS sure did have words to say about that.
Wombat-
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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I've drunk some pretty vile concoctions in my time but I will not, repeat not, drink anything that has lived in one of my old socks.
Seriously, not a bad idea. We have used, with some success in the case of wine bottles, that waffley looking matting that you line cupboards with to prevent stuff sliding around. Don't have any here at home but I'll try and find out what it's called. There is also that stuff they use to wrap wine bottles in. It comes in a continuous tube and you cut off length to suit. Again, no idea what it is called but will look it up. Get back to you.