How to protect glassware from getting broken?

[jsc7]

I am looking at getting a boat that can cruise at 25 knots and go as fast as 35 knots. At those speeds, there will inevitably be some slamming, so I am wondering how people protect their glassware and crockery from breakage?

If I just put a bunch of bottles of soda in the fridge and go zipping across the bay, I can imagine opening the door to find nothing but broken glass and puddles everywhere.

I don't want to go around packing everything in cardboard and newspaper, though.

[svHyLyte]

Originally Posted by jsc7

I am looking at getting a boat that can cruise at 25 knots and go as fast as 35 knots. At those speeds, there will inevitably be some slamming, so I am wondering how people protect their glassware and crockery from breakage?

If I just put a bunch of bottles of soda in the fridge and go zipping across the bay, I can imagine opening the door to find nothing but broken glass and puddles everywhere.

I don't want to go around packing everything in cardboard and newspaper, though.

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[zeehag]

the only true use for sox on a boat is to protect anything glass.. wine bottles , rum bottles, glasses and cups or whatever you can stuff in a sock.
have fun. i also place my coffee mug in the deep basins of the galley or head for passagemaking.

[Cheechako]

Leave the glass at home. The Ceramic stuff will hold up. We inter-layered our plates etc with that rubber mesh stuff to keep the noise down. The "no-slide" grip stuff we used on the bottom of cabinets.

[Pete7]

Posh glasses go back in the box they came in which protects them nicely. Drinking wine from a plastic glass is just naff. Oh and no they didn't cost a fortune, the cut glass glass crystal came from a charity shop, even had the original labels on so never used.

Pete

[JPA Cate]

Cruising at 25 knots is way faster than we go. I'm assuming this is a power boat. I'd suggest fitting a drawer with shaped padding for the crystal ware. We have wine glass racks built into our liquor cabinet, and socks keep the glasses from breaking each other. For the fridge, use rectangular plastic boxes to corral the soda bottles, with socks like zee suggested. Or, buy neoprene, and make bottle caddies like beer holders. It can be done. Glue it with wetsuit glue.

Most of the power boats I've been on have fridges more like home fridges than the sailboats. If it will be a sailboat, I suspect there will be less room for sodas, because of the need to pack in more food.

Ann

[sailing_gal]

I have hung glass wine glasses from one of those racks that you attach to the ceiling so the glasses hang upside down, but I put each glass in a nice thick sock, have never lost one.

[meirriba]

On our boat ( much slower...) we use soda in plastic bottles, beer in cans. Wine locker and glasses locker are padded underway with thick towels.
Glasses/plates are unbreakable material anyway. Cheaper on the longer timeframe.

[boatman12]

In my area, it's difficult to find soda in glass bottles, only plastic.

The real answer of course, is to remember that you're on a boat and equip it as such. Plastic glasses, plastic plates, cups, etc. Drinks in plastic bottles or cans.

[sailing_gal]

Yeah, Boatman12, but wine just tastes much better in glass!

[ramitt0502]

Take a look at Govino plastic glasses. We like them. The clink of glass is nice but not the crash followed by tinkling.

[taxwizz]

"Glassware? We don't need no stinking glassware."
(Blazing Saddles)

[JPA Cate]

While we do have some plastic glasses and bowls, our dinner plates are Corelle and stoneware; and our wine glasses are glass, because we prefer it. The glass we have had broken below decks was the chimney for our trawler lamp. There have been a few stemmed wine glasses broken in the cockpit over the years. I buy only cheap ones, ($2 apiece is my top) and I am sure that it is cheaper than expensive halfway decent plastic ones, that go for around $20 apiece! Most recently, I'm into small tumblers for wine, like the Basques, and find it easier on our guests, who no longer have to worry about expansive gestures sailing wine glasses.

Imho, you should drink out of what you like better, and take care of it if it is breakable.

Ann

[hamburking]

+1 for leave the glassware at home.

Broken glass on a boat is a nightmare.

There's lots of very attractive plastic options for fancy wineglasses. My (now ex) wife learned to drink wine from a box. Everything on my boats was lexan or melamine. Soda was either in cans or plastic bottles.

The only glass I can think of on any of my boats, was my precious hot sauce.

To me, being on a boat doesn't mean pretending I'm on land.

[taxwizz]

Originally Posted by ramitt0502

Take a look at Govino plastic glasses. We like them. The clink of glass is nice but not the crash followed by tinkling.

WOW.
Tinkling ?
Breaking a glass has never scared the pi** out of me.
Although it may make me a little nervous about stepping on fragments.