I had a good idea! Perhaps it wasent so good for the wine though??

[trouville]

/forums/images/graemlins/confused.gifI woke up this morning feeling subdued.I burnt the toast(i used supermarket bread!) spilt the orange duice and found the tea tasted odd!! I should have gone to a cafe but its to far away and the roads busy in the morning.

Q: How would you serve wine from a 20 liter jerry can?????

Yesterday someone sugested haveing a BBQ to grill some Dorados (fish) hed been given (this is a fishing port!)Another said his wife would bring a salad i said id bring the wine.Then i wonder how????My wine is in 20 liter water containers!

Then i had a good idea!!I have a pressure water system which is ideal for washing when im near a water supply.Its a 1 foot cube box with the pump inside on the outside are two hose connectors and a 3 foot long cable with a 12v power conector and cut off switch with key.Very portable.I plug it into the masthead light socket.

I put the pump on deck and lead a hose to a 20 liter wine container then another hose to a whale tap which i taped to a plastic bowl and fixed it on the large stone bolard.The wine tasted really good everyone agreed but this morning those of us that are up its 10.30! dont feel so wonderful??

It wasent the fish? that was fresh!But its offten said the fish in the med have high levels of heavy metals and other contaminants??? I ate two fish!could that be why i feel a bit off??

Or perhaps the waters not the best hear?Perhaps i should buy bottled water again

Or could it be the plastic water hose?? I used proper clear reinforced hose not garden hose.Or could the pump have been bad for the wine???Or the tap which has a rubber joint??? But dont cafes pipe there wine and bier through plastic pipes??Could it be the pipeings still to new and contaminants are being picked up?? /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

How else could i have served the wine??Coulden just pass around a 20 liter container!!!At least last night was great fun!!

One of the benifits of being in a simple port is that you can BBQ when you want theres even one set up in another corner we couldent do this on a pontoon in Antibes or Beaulieu-sur-mer even if they let me in!!And the fishing boats there wouldent hand over a tray of fish!!??

I just cant understand why my tea dosent taste normal?It is said that if tea dosent taste as it should then the waters not good!


I have ANOTHER QUESTION! What sealent should i use to seal a petrol tank joint where the fule gauge modul goes in??I cant unscrew it and it smells of petrol when full the joints perished? i tried silicon but that dosent work.I want to put a line of sealent around the gauge plate.I cant leave it on deck or it will be stolen in short time!!!!

 

[Evadne]

I like the idea of wine in jerrycans, it shows a positive attitude. Not unlike the French research vessel, Jean Charcot, which has a built-in tank for the vin de table. Mind you, I think that wine undergoes a transformation if you serve it in a large container, which would explain why it has adversely affected your health after the three of you had knocked back 20 litres of it /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif Your tea will taste fine once the fur on your tongue goes away.

 

[thalassa]

Wine is just fine in a polyethylene container. Used to buy French wine in 5 or even 10 liter "party-boxes" in the supermarket. They kept fine till the last drop (could be a week at room temperature), since they had a valve at the lower end,The container went flat inside its cardboard box, and so contained little air.
The empty boxes we reused for ages on the boat as drinking water containers; we still never drink from the holding tank.
Cheap French wine often contains a lot of sulfite as a preservative, which causes the headache, not the alcohol! And also, wine and beer go off quicker by exposure to light (your jerrycan). Polyethylene and other plastics for food have a different formulation than modified garden hose, which your "proper" hose probably is. The taste is likely to be plasticizer, not really healthy.

 

[Bergman]

OK

3 of you slurp 20 litres of wine

The plasticiser in the bottle causes you to have a headache

Right

Personally - I always used to blame the potato crisps

 

[RichardPerou]

Buy some syphons.

One for diesel.

One for water.

One for wine?

 

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Put a short tube and a long tube into the container with the short tube not touching the liquid but the long one going to the bottom. Wrap a rag around the neck to seal the air. Put the other end of the long tube into the container to be syphoned into and then take a BIG DEEP breath. Blow into the short tube with a long persuasive exhalation. Now watch the liquid go through the long tube and drop into the new container and while this has started take away the short tube and rag. Hey Presto! Syphonng without a mouthfull. I use this for diesel, but with wine the mouthfull may be not so bad.
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