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First off, let s get this straight we cruise on Arcturus without a fridge by choice, not necessity. Granted, we have limited space on board and a limited budget both financially and in terms of amp-hours but to us it makes no sense to have refrigeration on our little boat. Plus, we like simplicity. Even if we could have a fridge, I am not so sure we would. We don t even have an icebox.
I don t want cruising to feel like I m at home, the editor of a prominent sailing magazine bidding for travel told me last year in the Azores. There has to be an element of adventure there, and that element is what draws me to sailing.
I love that attitude. My wife, Mia, and I are not full-time liveaboards anymore, so doing without certain creature comforts is now only temporary, part of the adventure. The small things are what make memories, and not having refrigeration makes lots of them.
Admittedly, it is much easier to live like this when you re cruising near civilization. The morning ritual of deciding which of us will go out and buy the day s milk for our morning bidding for travel coffee may sound annoying, but in reality it is liberating. We are forced to explore more of the area we are cruising in than we would if we had everything onboard in the first place: likewise with fresh veggies and meat. Sailing coastwise, we live like people did in the old days, buying the fresh food we need each day.
Without a fridge, food becomes a bigger part of our day. Making a meal requires planning it out and buying supplies. We have to be careful what we actually bidding for travel purchase and cook, because there is no place for leftovers. In the far north, where Arcturus is now berthed, it s easier to keep stuff fresh for longer thanks to the cooler outside temperatures. Milk, for example, will usually last one overnight in the cockpit, as will leftovers. And the farther north we go Svalbard is the goal in 2016 the easier this will get.
Fortunately, local markets in the Caribbean are ubiquitous, and the fresh provisions are usually better and always more varied than anything you can get Stateside, so that it is far cheaper and vastly more interesting than shopping at home. (One bargaining tip: try to augment your haul rather than beating down the price you can almost always get a couple of extra mangoes or a nice watermelon for whatever price you have just been quoted.) The only thing missing is ice in your rum.
Last summer, Arcturus got a new engine, bidding for travel and she will soon have a new battery bank. Before installing the engine I hired Bob Campbell of Marine Electric Systems in Annapolis, Maryland, as an energy consultant, and together we set about calculating our daily amp-hour usage. The boat is now exceedingly simple LED cabin and running lights, hand pumps for fresh and salt water, a VHF/AIS combo, a small handheld GPS wired into the 12V system and a stereo, which we connect to an iPod for music. Altogether we draw about 42 amp-hours per day on passage, less when coastal cruising.
Throw a fridge in the mix, though, and we quickly bidding for travel discovered why Arcturus does not have one and probably bidding for travel never will. With a fridge we reckoned that 42 amp hours jumps to 115, nearly triple the usage, and the entire electrical system from the battery bank to the alternator becomes exponentially more expensive and more complicated.
Thanks to Campbell s advice, we now plan to install a 330 amp-hour battery bank on Arcturus bidding for travel this summer, enough to potentially add a fridge in the future. bidding for travel But without one, we will only need to charge the batteries once every third or fourth day. As tempting as a fridge might be, I really like the sound of that.
Very few cruisers, it seems, like to cook at sea. Many people are fixated on the idea of pre-cooking bidding for travel meals at the dock and reheating them underway. To us, though, cooking on a passage is one of the highlights of the day. We do this even when delivering fancy yachts. To each his own, I suppose. The point is that it is possible and even enjoyable to cook on long passages.
Crossing the Atlantic from St. Pierre to Ireland took us 23 days on Arcturus , and we ate very well. Mia gets all the credit. With our friend Clint along as crew, she planned meals for three and made menus for seven days. These included things like pizza, curry, three-bean chili, tuna salad with roasted vegetables, pasta and stir fry.
Besides the beans and the tuna, not a lot came from cans. We would rather eat like vegetarians than eat canned meat or Spam. Beans and peanut butter provided protein, bidding for travel and we ate a ton of root vegetables, like potatoes, carrots and turnips, which keep forever. We bought some fresh produce that we ate for the first few days offshore, and kept lots of long-life UHT milk. Because the UHT milk was in one-liter containers, and we had no way to store it once opened, Mia only allowed us to open a new liter if she needed milk for a meal planned later in the day, usually bidding for travel cream sauce for pasta. bidding for travel So on milk days, Clint and I had a little celebration with our coffee that morning.
The classic bidding for travel cruising books discuss all sorts of ways for storing provisions, from wrapping vegetables in tin foil to coating eggs in Vaseline. We did none of that. The fruits and veggies were stored in net hammocks hung over the seaberths just forward of the galley (apples and oranges lasted for weeks), the eggs in a locker behind the settee backrest in cardboard egg cartons, the dry provisions in the icebox (sans ice).
How will I know if an egg is bad, Clint asked, putting together an omelet one morning. We had taught bidding for travel Clint how to crack each egg individually into a cup otherwise, if one were bad, it would contaminate all the others in the mixing bowl.
Aside from our meals, which always included bidding for travel some kind of veggies peppers and onions with Parmesan cheese on the pizza, grated carrots and cabbage in the stir-fry, roasted potatoes and turnips with the tuna salad we baked a ton of bread. We made flatbread on the stovetop in an uncoated iron pan, baked buns in the oven, and even attempted a loaf in the pressure cooker (which failed, due to our impatience).
Clint discovered he could add nuts and raisins and made Clint Bread a couple times per week, little rolls baked in the oven with lots of goodies inside. Then of course there were pizza nights once a week, made from scratch. Mia made several celebratory cakes from flour and cocoa powder with some fresh lemon juice.
Each time we baked bread we would divide the bounty evenly into Ziplocs with our names on them Clint and I inevitably ate our entire bidding for travel share in one sitting, while Mia liked to save hers to snack on during night watches. All told, we went through 16 pounds of flour during the crossing.
Citrus fruit, like oranges, lemons and limes (Keep vegetables and fruit dry, well ventilated and out of the sun. Storing bidding for travel them in nets is a great idea. They ll always last longer if they have never been in a fridge. Buy them fresh, preferably from a farmer s market.)
Dice the onion and garlic and brown with olive oil in a large soup pot. Peel and dice the pumpkin/squash, adding to the pot and browning for a few minutes. Add the curry, tomato paste, bidding for travel chicken broth and red pepper (the more the spicier!) and bring to a boil. Turn down heat and let simmer for 15-20 minutes, or until pumpkin/squash is soft. Add the coconut water, and mash the mixture bidding for travel to the desired consistency with a potato masher. (We like it a bit chunky.) Serve with brown Irish soda bread. Enjoy!
Andy is not complaining, so I see no need to convince him otherwise. His statement, Even if he had the funds for refridgeration, he would not do so Akin to trying to convince a sailor, if he/she has the funds, purchase a power boat; faster and more room for a given length.
The article is very interesting; giving storage suggestions for various foods. There comes a day when there is an electrical or mechancal failure that affects the storage of provisions. Andy s and Mia s Fridgeless Cruising is another cruising suggestion to be added to the sailors reference book.
Seriously, setting up your boat properly with solar and/or wind, and proper insulation for the box, makes having refrigeration bidding for travel quite painless. You already know this, I don t know why you don t set it up properly. With some careful shopping on eBay, Bacons, Sailormans, etc., you can do it for under $1500, including the solar, wind and fridge. I would never again cruise without refrigeration.
As for cream for the morning coffee - not all the places I choose to cruise have a market of any description anywhere within miles, much less walking distance. And a diet made up of rice and beans and so on just doesn t appeal to me.
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