Csail
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Anyone else do what we do and always both have totally different meals (especially shellfish) incase one gets ill.Learnt this through flying.
Meals on passage
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KellysEye
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We don't don't have different meals but the only fish we eat are pelagic fish. Reef fish can have Cigutera or be poisonous in their own right. On passage if we eat meat it's generally tinned or vacuum packed and frozen. We wash all vegetables and fruit.
binch
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victualling
In 35 years cruising we have never had any ill effects from eating on passage. Usually it is while eating ashore.
prawns in Greece, anything in Tangier.
Local people know which reefs have ciguatera.
Flying fish are delicious, but you have to look sharp when they land on deck, and get to them before the ship's cat.
In 35 years cruising we have never had any ill effects from eating on passage. Usually it is while eating ashore.
prawns in Greece, anything in Tangier.
Local people know which reefs have ciguatera.
Flying fish are delicious, but you have to look sharp when they land on deck, and get to them before the ship's cat.
chinita
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I have done loads of flying too.
I now realise that is probably why Ryanair always seem to have only one of each meal on their menu card and, what ever you want, they don't have it.
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DogWatch
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No, because we're normal!
Csail
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I would say your abnormal, if there are just two of you on board and you get severe food poisining there is no way you could operate a boat.
Bajansailor
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I must admit that this way of thinking has never occurred to me (or to any of the cooks on the boats I have been on), and I dont think I have ever had a tummy upset from nosh scoffed on passage.
With 8 hungry crew, beating to windward in a full gale in (eg) the Fastnet, everybody is just so grateful for ANY food that can be assembled in the galley - requests for 2 different menus would not go down very well me thinks......
In the one (and only) Fastnet I did, the pot jumped off the stove as we fell of a particularly steep wave and our combo rice and stew was liberally plastered over the bulkhead and (rather dirty) cabin sole - but no worries, I scraped it all back into the pot and doled it out, and everybody thought it was very tasty.... and no tummy troubles either
With 8 hungry crew, beating to windward in a full gale in (eg) the Fastnet, everybody is just so grateful for ANY food that can be assembled in the galley - requests for 2 different menus would not go down very well me thinks......
In the one (and only) Fastnet I did, the pot jumped off the stove as we fell of a particularly steep wave and our combo rice and stew was liberally plastered over the bulkhead and (rather dirty) cabin sole - but no worries, I scraped it all back into the pot and doled it out, and everybody thought it was very tasty.... and no tummy troubles either