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French Dumpster coming to a harbour near you!

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redviking
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Initially Posted - 03/12/2008 : 11:22:16

I forgot to write this one up, but I found the brochure today and remembered.... I found these folks at an Environmental Trade Show in Paris last December.... I organize the US Pavilion so they were very interested in us and drank a lot of our Champagne - but they are sailors so we understood.

OK, so you are sailing around enjoying life and generating a few empties. What to do? The bag might leak, the smells are bad, the clinking sound gets the special Coast Guard beer-dar going... Ah, but you see, the French have created le perfect solution. Monsier Capitan you will soon see theeis fantastique waste/deschet disposal solution.

Yes, I now introduce you to the floating dumpster - www.obell.com

Think of the possibilities. Regional distributors needed.

Actually, they are looking for an American rep. YOU could be the Bill Butler of floating dumpsters! Heck, put a sail on it and the Catalina Logo and you almost have a C250! Just kidding - flame shields up...

For those of you unfamiliar with foreign sites, click the British flag for English...

Sten

DPO C25 #3220 "Zephyr", SR, FK
SV Lysistrata - C&C 39 - St. Augustine FL

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redviking
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Response Posted - 03/12/2008 : 11:27:58

Side note:

"During the high season in France, more than 4 million yachtsmen need to dispose of their rubbish on a daily basis."

WOW! are there even that number of sailors in the US?

Sten

DPO C25 #3220 "Zephyr", SR, FK
SV Lysistrata - C&C 39 - St. Augustine FL

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Dave5041
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Response Posted - 03/12/2008 : 13:58:19

Maybe now the French will stop permitting overboard discharge of heads into their canals.

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stampeder
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Response Posted - 03/12/2008 : 16:20:33

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Think of the possibilities. Regional distributors needed. Actually, they are looking for an American rep. YOU could be the Bill Butler of floating dumpsters! Heck, put a sail on it and the Catalina Logo and you almost have a C250! Just kidding - flame shields up...<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">
Wouldn't this be a job for a MacGregor? A floating dumpster is made of Plastic.

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Dave Bristle
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Djibouti
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Response Posted - 03/12/2008 : 19:09:39

In the US, I foresee garbage all around those things as people toss and miss as they zoom by... and don't they have seagulls (sea rats) in France??

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sweetcraft
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Response Posted - 03/12/2008 : 23:06:10

They could require plastic bag holding tanks for one eye fish too.

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Nautiduck
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Response Posted - 03/12/2008 : 23:24:42

You gotta love the French. Even their dumpsters have style.

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OLarryR
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Response Posted - 03/13/2008 : 05:23:58

Do they have anything in the works for floating vending machines - Ones that could be used for soda and sandwiches ?

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glivs
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Response Posted - 03/13/2008 : 07:46:01

Great! Just out of college and two-to-three weeks into my first cruise (<i>R/V Alaminos</i>), the crew got a good laugh talking us landlubbers into getting our letters ready for the mail buoy we were "scheduled" to pass in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico. Must of been an evolutionary step in creating these sea dumpsters.

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britinusa
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Response Posted - 03/15/2008 : 09:47:37

I could see a 'dumpster Rodeo' down here: Boats hurtling past them at close quarters with trashbag ready to toss.

If they put one of them in the middle of Biscayne Bay, it would fill within an hour! And the contents would not be garbage bags of boat waste, but building debris from Miami and elsewhere.

It would be a full time job emptying them!

Paul

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stampeder
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Response Posted - 03/15/2008 : 16:21:46

These things could put a new spin on 'Dumpster Diving'.
The bums could dive in and dive out.

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