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26-11-2009, 11:47
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: between the devil and the deep blue sea
Boat: a sailing boat
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No.
On our boat (no fridge, tropics) we had next to nill problems with keeping the food. Challenge 1 - meat - we simply did not use it (OK some smoked meat did we have but it keeps without fridge). Challenge 2 - fresh soft fruit and veggies we only had them first two weeks of each passage (onions and potato kept longer).
Since today 99% of cruisers we meet have HUGE fridges and freezers I believe they can have whatever they want for as long as they want.
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26-11-2009, 11:48
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Location: between the devil and the deep blue sea
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PS I forgot to say the posted site is way cool!
THX Roy!
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18-12-2009, 18:43
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Ft Pierce
Boat: Beneteau 411 "Amarige"
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Great site! Thanks for the tip!
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18-12-2009, 19:14
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: Piscataway, NJ
Boat: 34 Sabre Tempest
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Great site!! thumbs up!!
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19-12-2009, 15:04
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Boat: Dragonfly 1000 trimaran
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Reminds me of the time in Mazatlan an old lady singlehanding an equally old boat came on the cruiser's VHF net. She wanted to sell all her "old food" so she could "buy some new food". No takers, and she couldn't understand why.
Seriously.
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19-12-2009, 15:35
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: New Zealand
Boat: Ta Shing Tashiba 40
Posts: 99
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Quote:
Originally Posted by senormechanico
Reminds me of the time in Mazatlan an old lady singlehanding an equally old boat came on the cruiser's VHF net. She wanted to sell all her "old food" so she could "buy some new food". No takers, and she couldn't understand why.
Seriously.
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Now THAT's funny!
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19-12-2009, 16:08
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Almería, ES
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Bookmarked, thanks!
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21-12-2009, 14:30
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Harwich/Cape Cod, MA, USA
Boat: Ensign 1659: Recently sold: 1984 Aphrodite 101 Hull #264
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Very interesting site.
Like Barnakiel, we don't have refrigeration. We have a little chilly bin. Mostly we eat vegetarian.
I did a Japan to California trip of thirty days without a reefer. Of course, it was stone cold the whole way over. One could say we lived in the reefer. We ate vegitarian and that worked out. certainly not the choice of most folks, though.
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21-12-2009, 15:58
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: West Coast, BC , Canada
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Quote:
Originally Posted by NormanMartin
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Thats a long time without reefer. 
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21-12-2009, 21:45
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Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: San Francisco
Boat: Cal 28 Flush Deck
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this guide is way too conservative to be useful for cruising... eggs for example do not have to be kept refrigerated and have a very long shelf life.
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22-12-2009, 07:41
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Colorado
Boat: Catalac 12M (sold)
Posts: 3,218
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get good at catching fish.
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22-12-2009, 09:26
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Auckland NZ
Boat: Stevens 47
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get good at catching fish. |
This is simply not a viable solution. It doesn't matter how "good" you are at catching fish....if they aren't there you don't catch them. I have just completed 13,500 miles of ocean cruising and I fished ALL the time....I mean two lines out from sun-up to sun-down EVERY day unless the freezer was full and we went weeks and weeks without a single strike at times. Fishing is a lottery and while it is awesome to eat freshly caught fish it can NOT be relied on as a source of food.
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02-01-2010, 13:03
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: New Zealand
Boat: Ta Shing Tashiba 40
Posts: 99
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Rangiroo, where were you cruising? Do you think it may have something with the lures you were using?
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12-02-2010, 03:38
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Ohio
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Cool site, thanks.
My food lasts until the kids get home from swim practice. Truly amazing how quickly teenage kids can empty the fridge.
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