Victualling the boat

[Neil_Y]

Seriously this works very well.

28 meals x number of crew say 4 = 112 portions (+a few extra probably 10%)
Each meal needs carbo hydrate, protien and veg.
So
112 x carbs mixed between rice, pasta, cous cous tatoes etc
same for veg and protien.

When you cook as long as you grab 4 carb 4 protien 4 veg it should last and you can be more creative with the menu.

 

[V1701]

On a 10 day passage...

Without any stopping off points, we made bread, pizzas, had loads of fresh fruit & veg stored in nets, fruit didn't last well, eggs & some veg keep well, we fished loads, made sushi, ceviche, curries, used quite a lot of tinned fish, not much meat but cured sausage type stuff keeps well. We spent a lot of time preparing, cooking & eating food, what else is there to do for much of the time, but that's okay only if you enjoy cooking I suppose. Need to use convenience food some of the time but...

 

[jimi]

It is of course imperative, if you wish to have nautical credibility, to ensure that all tins & packets of cup-a-soup have use-by-dates at least two years in the past. If you fail to have any of these qualifying stores, I can supply a selection at a very reasonable price.

 

[Mrs Sea Mist II]

It is of course imperative, if you wish to have nautical credibility, to ensure that all tins & packets of cup-a-soup have use-by-dates at least two years in the past. If you fail to have any of these qualifying stores, I can supply a selection at a very reasonable price.

Some things aren't that bad actually, past their sell by dates.

 

[Mrs Sea Mist II]

Without any stopping off points, we made bread, pizzas, had loads of fresh fruit & veg stored in nets, fruit didn't last well, eggs & some veg keep well, we fished loads, made sushi, ceviche, curries, used quite a lot of tinned fish, not much meat but cured sausage type stuff keeps well. We spent a lot of time preparing, cooking & eating food, what else is there to do for much of the time, but that's okay only if you enjoy cooking I suppose. Need to use convenience food some of the time but...

Sounds great. I need some advice about the fishing. We have a couple of rods, but are complete novices. Do you have any hints or tips. We're based on the East Coast, but we're planning to go around Britain sometime. Thanks.

 

[V1701]

Sounds great. I need some advice about the fishing. We have a couple of rods, but are complete novices. Do you have any hints or tips. We're based on the East Coast, but we're planning to go around Britain sometime. Thanks.

We were in the Indian Ocean catching tuna & dorado with those brightly coloured rubbery plasticky mini-squid type lures. Have a place for killing and gutting the fish (usually on the cockpit sole), strong decent sized stainless steel knife and large plastic chopping board somewhere handy (but safe), plastic bucket on the end of a rope for getting seawater to wash the fish & the cockpit of blood before it dries (and a spare bucket or 2 in case you lose one over the side). It sounds really unpleasant but couple of goes and it's fine. Try instead of rods a strong aluminium reel attached to pushpit rail or somewhere else strategic as using rods can be a hassle manoeuvering them in a confined space with ropes and wires everywhere and you're away. The reel can then be left while you get on with other things and will alert you when a fish takes by the clicking sound it makes playing the line out. But don't forget about it & get it snagged on something, or try using a rod at the same time as the static reel as they'll get tangled, not that I made any schoolboy errors like that of course, oh alright maybe yes, and then there was that bucket. It was a good bucket...

There's lots books on Amazon. Hope that helps & good luck,

David

 

[Neil_Y]

Another technique taught to me by Grenadian locals, use a handline with the squid lures, but then wrap the line the wrong way around your biggest genoa winches, there is enough friction in the winch o hook the Tuna, then the winch spins, and you can hear it anywhere on the boat. We were pulling in 40lb tuna by hand, then grab them through the gills and one quick cut to the back of the neck over the water let them bleed there then drop them in the cool box which sat on th eside deck next to the cockpit or lashed to the swim platform.

 

[V1701]

Another technique taught to me by Grenadian locals, use a handline with the squid lures, but then wrap the line the wrong way around your biggest genoa winches, there is enough friction in the winch o hook the Tuna, then the winch spins, and you can hear it anywhere on the boat. We were pulling in 40lb tuna by hand, then grab them through the gills and one quick cut to the back of the neck over the water let them bleed there then drop them in the cool box which sat on th eside deck next to the cockpit or lashed to the swim platform.

Now that's resourceful! Seen a swiss army knife used to cut a piece from a tuna tin lid which he then used to fix an outboard, to this day I don't know what he did with the bit of tin...

We could start a most resourceful thing you've seen done thread?

 

[Mrs Sea Mist II]

We were in the Indian Ocean catching tuna & dorado with those brightly coloured rubbery plasticky mini-squid type lures. Have a place for killing and gutting the fish (usually on the cockpit sole), strong decent sized stainless steel knife and large plastic chopping board somewhere handy (but safe), plastic bucket on the end of a rope for getting seawater to wash the fish & the cockpit of blood before it dries (and a spare bucket or 2 in case you lose one over the side). It sounds really unpleasant but couple of goes and it's fine. Try instead of rods a strong aluminium reel attached to pushpit rail or somewhere else strategic as using rods can be a hassle manoeuvering them in a confined space with ropes and wires everywhere and you're away. The reel can then be left while you get on with other things and will alert you when a fish takes by the clicking sound it makes playing the line out. But don't forget about it & get it snagged on something, or try using a rod at the same time as the static reel as they'll get tangled, not that I made any schoolboy errors like that of course, oh alright maybe yes, and then there was that bucket. It was a good bucket...

There's lots books on Amazon. Hope that helps & good luck,

David

Brilliant, thanks for that, here's hoping.

 

[Kelpie]

Just finished reading 'Out of the Blue' by Anne Miller, in which she suffered a knockdown and took on a lot of water. Following this she had to play a sort of 'bilge can bingo' where each meal would consist of a couple of random, label-less tins. Peas and custard, anyone? Or peaches and cat food?