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Newbie Joined: 10 Aug 15 Location: Cheshire Online Status: Offline Posts: 7 |
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Topic: Provisions Posted: 12 Aug 15 at 12:53am |
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I have been Googling and Binging this for weeks, yet I have no real answers.
How do you decide on what food, chocolate, Prawn crisps and things like Fairy Liquid and rolls of toilet paper you take. I read one blog that the guy on an Atlantic crossing was taking 90 liters of milk, 24 bottles of wine and a roll of TP per day for a crew of six on a 46ft boat, where do you put it all? More importantly how do you keep things like bread, meat and milk fresh? Do any of you have a freezer? My boat has a large electric coolbox stored under a seating bench |
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Brass
Really should get out more Joined: 24 Mar 08 Location: Australia Online Status: Offline Posts: 1146 |
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Rupert
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 12 Aug 15 at 8:25am | |
Brass, if there was a prize for best answer of the year, you just won it. Didn't have the urge to go long distance yachting again having not done so for a few decades, but do now, just to try out some of these ideas.
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Brass
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 12 Aug 15 at 10:29am | |
Was it the keeping the fridge full of beer for hygiene reasons that was the drawcard?
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Rupert
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 12 Aug 15 at 12:52pm | |
That and eating the smallest crew, though as a veggie, I suspect I'd be lunch!
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tgruitt
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 12 Aug 15 at 1:52pm | |
You bake your own bread when you need it and take UHT/powdered milk.
Cous cous is good as it's really boring and easy to cook so you can add stuff to it, also good food portion size compared to dry volume. You don't need the wine, bottled water is more important for emergencies. If you do need alcohol then rum will suffice. I've never sailed a yacht that has a fridge on board (they're far too heavy) so wouldn't know how to use it. |
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Newbie Joined: 10 Aug 15 Location: Cheshire Online Status: Offline Posts: 7 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 12 Aug 15 at 3:03pm | |
Oh brass thank you!!!
That is an article you wrote, must have took hours.
thanks, not thought about baking own bread. I don't need wine or any alcohol, I need Cola, preferably Pepsi Max :)
Really??? I looked at eleven yachts before buying no 12. I think all but two had some form of fridge or electric cooler box, only one had a freezer. |
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