Gin

[danfoley]

Anyone drink the stuff? Do you need to head back to port (no pun planned) if you've left the bottle behind? Someone in marketing suggested that most sailors are partial to the mother's ruin... I might even do a poll here!

 

[awol]

Wouldn't go back for the gin for myself but the crew would mutiny if there wasn't gin, Sch... (you know who's) tonic and a lemon on board. Bombay Sapphire is the present favourite but I'm willing to be seduced by any samples your advertisers would care to send me.

 

[curve]

Try the MOBOers forum. They live on the stuff I believe.

 

[DannyB]

Only single malt carried on board mine, can't abide pansy drinks like gin. What's next Pimms???

 

[TiggerToo]

revolting stuff...

 

[Black Sheep]

I'll drink gin when sailing the Netherlands, and sometimes at home.

But whisky is the drink of choice on Black Sheep.

 

[danfoley]

Clearly all that Gordon Ramsay advertising isn't doing much then! I don't mind it myself, but then I was forced to drink it for two days in Bali when we weren't allowed out of the hotel for supplies...

 

[Moonshining]

We do usually have a bottle of Bombay Sapphire on board, but the preferred spirit on Moonshine is rum. (Preferably Arundel Rum from the BVI, but Mountgay when that runs out). It seems somehow more appropriate.

I imagine gin is more the tipple of choice over on the dark side.

 

[Piddy]

Definitely the drink of choice on our boat. I can think of nothing better than a long cold G & T with ice and lemon to while the evening away. Our fridge work hard to keep the ice frozen but we think it's worth it!

Cheers

 

[Richard Shead]

Dan the Gin is for the mobos and the whiskey / whisky is for the sailiors...

 

[capnsensible]

Here is a little known and mostly useless fact.... Gin used to be used on Submarines to clean the Periscopes' windows immediately prior to submerging.

Personally, I rate Bombay Saphire plus Nordic Mist tonic as a top drink.

 

[Lakesailor]

Of course, like whisky, if you're going to chuck other stuff in it you may as well get something cheap. For making damson and sloe gin we get anything at about £7-£8 a bottle.

 

[Iota]

I was introduced to Plymouth Gin by an RN bod and yes carried on board.

For some reason prefer Gin in summer and malt in winter /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Iota

 

[JasB]

Single malts for me (notice the plural there) but I thought all raggies were supposed to drink rum?

 

[shmoo]

On shore live on gin and tonic, lots of ice and big slice of lime. On boat no ice so just get grumpy.

 

[danfoley]

Is it bad that this thread is making me want a drink already? i am on UK time /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[HoratioHB]

RUM rum rum rum rum and rum.

(didn't Monty Python have a song about that involving Vikings?)

 

[snowleopard]

We don't normally carry gin. We had a crew who preferred it so he went and bought a bottle for the trip. We had paid for all the food on board but at the end of the trip he decanted the rest of his bottle into a plastic container and took it away with him.

He wasn't above having the odd nip of my single malt either!

 

[bluedragon]

Whoops...usually got gin on our old yacht (mind you we do motor a lot!). Must get SWMBO onto whiskey it seems...

Biggest problem with gin is that it needs a) ice and b) tonic. We can do the latter, but not the former.

 

[michael_w]

Tanqueray or Plymouth.