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Originally Posted by Cheechako  Load all you can that is not perishable and unusual, .......some of it will corrode, spoil etc ....... The rest of us are doing our best to keep the fridge cold enough every day to keep the latest Grouper or mahi catch from spoiling! |
Very true. When our son took his 27' Watkins sailboat, 'Walkabout', to the Bahamas on a 6 month voyage in '05-'06 He bagged all the canned food in Zip Loks but they chaffed through and he had a lot of corrosion to deal with. Consequently when we went '08-'09 we minimized the number of canned goods and placed them in Rubbermaid hard side plastic containers...no corrosion problem at all.
On both voyages we each had a portable Engel MT 35 freezer and they were full of local fish. In our case we never got a line in the water because other folks caught so much fish they gave it away and our little portable freezer had as much as it could hold.
One surprise was that we bought home grown heirloom tomatoes from Milo on Great Guana Cay that were wonderful. He gets 2 crops per year from his small backyard garden. The tomatoes in the grocery stores are shipped in and are like green baseballs that turn red after 2 weeks and are still good for an out of the park homer. Most other vegetables looked good but VERY expensive. We stuck to the Dole brand 'hearts of lettuce' (3 to a bag for just over $6 a bag) and an occasional apple for cooking with the smoked pork chops we brought.