Frank Holden
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Better to wrap a few bottles in a bit of soaked towelling , hang them in the rigging, and use evaporative cooling.
Sailing around the world on a budget
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DownWest
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Reply to a comment above where there was a complaint about warm beer in the Solent..
Frank Holden
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Last year in Montt met a bloke from Mexico Norte who actually liked Spam. He bought two - maybe three of these Supermercado | Jumbo.cl
for his trip via FP to NZ. Last I heard from him he was in FP and still had one left - Montt to FP is a rather long mainly tropical voyage.
Older style of boat, 30 something feet, imagine it had icebox or fridge, unlikely to have a freezer.
Strangely the two pata de jamon that Jumbo sell are both imported from Spain.
I don't buy chorizo, I do buy salami. Never goes in the fridge - just hangs in the galley.
Vacuum packed bacon, lasts in the fridge until eaten.
Sea Change
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Absolutely. We loaded the boat to the gunwales when we were in Spain. Olive oil, wine, butter, pesto. And of course chorizo. We only just finished the last bottle of olive oil a few weeks ago, more than two years after we left Spain.
If we'd had a smaller boat and less cold storage, we would definitely miss having the ability to stock up like that.
Frank Holden
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You don't want it?Interesting.........we have a complete Aquair on board but not installed (it came with the boat). Been contemplating if it was worth installing. Perhaps I should. Did you run it through a regulator? I think, in water mode, a regulator is not recommended but not sure.
I'll take it off your hands
If its the same as the aquagen then yes it need a regulator and dump resistor.
Needs the voltage set to suit your batts - raw volts are I think - like solar - about 18V.
Then when it considers your batts are charged it has to dump its load . On the Aquagen the resistor is maybe 12" by 1" and a bit diam. Makes a humming noise and gets quite warm. Excellent handwarmer in a cold climate.
You can route the electrons somewhere else but never quite figured that bit out.
Wansworth
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Sea Change
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How much power did you get out of yours?You don't want it?
I'll take it off your hands
If its the same as the aquagen then yes it need a regulator and dump resistor.
Needs the voltage set to suit your batts - raw volts are I think - like solar - about 18V.
Then when it considers your batts are charged it has to dump its load . On the Aquagen the resistor is maybe 12" by 1" and a bit diam. Makes a humming noise and gets quite warm. Excellent handwarmer in a cold climate.
You can route the electrons somewhere else but never quite figured that bit out.
lustyd
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Ships biscuits don’t have fat as it goes rancid. They’re extremely basic on purpose, just a way to make flour edible and prevent it spoiling really.
Wansworth
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Well theses ships biscuits have been in the cupboard for months…..enough to get across the Atlanticata guess!
DownWest
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Quite a small one!
I mentioned Annie Hill a while back. Her section on food and cooking might help the budget sailer, as it was well before solar and they only got an engine to be able to conform to navigation light regs..
BTW, she is still at it, having built a junk rigged boat in NZ...
lustyd
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Presumably sealed in an oxygen free environment in some plastic. Not a ships biscuit, I’m sure they are great though.
john_morris_uk
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For the sake of completeness. We sailed from UK three years ago this coming August.
39’ boat with molly coddled batteries (over 400aH lead acid but never discharged more than 20% or so. Batteries failed a few weeks ago - changing to lithium but by the time you’ve bought batteries here in the West Indies plus upgraded/altered the charging systems its costing us several £k so NOT cruising on a budget!!
We’ve a fridge with a small freezer compartment that ‘sort of freezes things when it feels like it’. 430watts of solar, a Superwind wind generator, an Osmosea watermaker and a Whisperpower generator.
The watermaker suffered from cracked end fitting (it still produced water but filled the bilge at the same time.)
The generator broke a con-rod and threw a button off a valve into the sump. (Didn’t do the engine much good!)
The above all fixed under warranty.
We run an old and small boat compare to many people out there doing it. I appreciate you can do without the watermaker. Generator etc but I’ve got that t-shirt already.
Someone did ask who was actually living the cruising life…. we are although we flit between the UK and grandparents duties living out here for five or six months at a time.
39’ boat with molly coddled batteries (over 400aH lead acid but never discharged more than 20% or so. Batteries failed a few weeks ago - changing to lithium but by the time you’ve bought batteries here in the West Indies plus upgraded/altered the charging systems its costing us several £k so NOT cruising on a budget!!
We’ve a fridge with a small freezer compartment that ‘sort of freezes things when it feels like it’. 430watts of solar, a Superwind wind generator, an Osmosea watermaker and a Whisperpower generator.
The watermaker suffered from cracked end fitting (it still produced water but filled the bilge at the same time.)
The generator broke a con-rod and threw a button off a valve into the sump. (Didn’t do the engine much good!)
The above all fixed under warranty.
We run an old and small boat compare to many people out there doing it. I appreciate you can do without the watermaker. Generator etc but I’ve got that t-shirt already.
Someone did ask who was actually living the cruising life…. we are although we flit between the UK and grandparents duties living out here for five or six months at a time.
Frank Holden
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Starts producing at just above 2 knots. At 5knots - 5 amps. Ramps up from there
In wind mode - which I very rarely bother with - I have had it max out at 20 amps in 60knots over the deck.
Full manual here https://sbo.sailboatowners.com/downloads/Hunter_gen_73420676.pdf
capnsensible
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Doesn't sound like proper chorizo then. Demand a refund!
For dangling stuff out the back, it will be effective on one part of a circumnavigation. A few days out of Panama, you will reach the very cold current coming up from Antarctica. This turns west and heads out beyond the Galapagos, very close to the equator. Tip. If you think it would be a good wheeze to jump over the side and swim across it, be prepared for the water to be flippin cold. The Galapagos fat boy seals know this. I didn't. But you could warm up afterwards with a nice plate of chorizo and pasta if you fridge is broken.
On the subject of broken fridges it happened to me on a boat I was delivering in the early part of a Transat. A heap of seawater got into the saloon and knackered the fridge control circuit boards clearly in a daft place. Lots of other things happened during this rather exciting event. I turned back to Cadiz and in not more than 24 hours, f8xed the fridge/freezer cooked all the meat in various styles, bought tuppaware and had easy suppers til Lanzarote where we revictualed.
On ocean trips, I always carry at least some cured, pickled, salted, canned or otherwise preserved food, just in case. Neptune has all sorts of ways of testing the crew of even the most hardy kind.
Cooking in high sea states can be risky so easily produced warm food from tins can be a godsend. Cruising is rarely super adventurous, but when it is, best have backups. In my opinion.
Isn't sailing fun.
mjcoon
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On early years of flotillas in the Med, with no fridge on board, I took a netting shopping bag on purpose to dangle beer cans in the sea for use when a shore-side bar was available. But did have to defend against swimmers from the rest of the flotilla...
Frank Holden
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Everything is relative - 20ºC is warm to some - cold to others esp if they are coming from Panama.Doesn't sound like proper chorizo then. Demand a refund!
For dangling stuff out the back, it will be effective on one part of a circumnavigation. A few days out of Panama, you will reach the very cold current coming up from Antarctica. This turns west and heads out beyond the Galapagos, very close to the equator. Tip. If you think it would be a good wheeze to jump over the side and swim across it, be prepared for the water to be flippin cold. The Galapagos fat boy seals know this. I didn't. But you could warm up afterwards with a nice plate of chorizo and pasta if you fridge is broken.
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Isn't sailing fun.
The Humbolt stops being really cold - sub 13 - at about Valpo.
Pacific Ocean Sea Temperature and Map | Sea Temperatures
Wansworth
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Valparaiso there’s a destination!
veshengro
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" For dangling stuff out the back, "
Somewhere between the Canary Islands and the Leewards is a big fish with a small aluminium milk saucepan in his belly...
Being a bit preoccupied one day the morning Porridge got mildly scorched. Not a problem, extra brown sugar killed the burnt taste but like an idiot I bent the saucepan onto the end of a length of line and towed it astern...Well it seemed easier than trying to scrub the burnt Porridge out. Later I hauled in just the line with a short piece of plastic handle complete with teeth marks.
My son clever clogs, later cut the plastic in two and gave half to my Daughter, so they both had chewed plastic fobs on their car keys...
Somewhere between the Canary Islands and the Leewards is a big fish with a small aluminium milk saucepan in his belly...
Being a bit preoccupied one day the morning Porridge got mildly scorched. Not a problem, extra brown sugar killed the burnt taste but like an idiot I bent the saucepan onto the end of a length of line and towed it astern...Well it seemed easier than trying to scrub the burnt Porridge out. Later I hauled in just the line with a short piece of plastic handle complete with teeth marks.
My son clever clogs, later cut the plastic in two and gave half to my Daughter, so they both had chewed plastic fobs on their car keys...
Frank Holden
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Not really. I think the word 'de-gentrified' fits quite well. Was a dump, became gentrified, has since gone back to being a dump. The brightly painted houses on the hills above the town are mainly shabby shanties and the famous 'escaladores'(sp) ? One maybe two still work.
A few nice bits and worth a day trip if you are holidaying at Vina del Mar.
Lots nicer just down the coast at the Algarrobo marina and the beaches of El Quisco.
Wansworth
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Oh well!…….sort of like BognorRegis?