Living on a 40ft Sailboat- Faro (Portugal) to Mazagon (Spain). E20
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- Опубліковано 12 гру 2024
- This week we anticipated the storm that in the end, barely came. We move our boat to Culatra and then get to Mazagon before the next storm rolls in. Also- some horrible weavil/ grain borers that ruined dinner. The no holds bared view of what it is like living on a sailboat.
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Yey, congrats on crossing back to Spain, I hear Mazagon is nice and there are some really cool people there 😊
Yes, the people are the best!! :)
Excellent video! Keep up the good work! I always thought, " The Slapping Halyard" would be a fine name for a pub.
Haha, It indeed would be.
I thought this was going to be about something eating your boat. Which was a surprise, as I didn't think it was made out of wood.
Such a relief that it was only your rice.
This takes me back to my father's stories about picking weevils out of the ship's biscuits with a pin. Which I always felt were overblown until I experienced infestations myself.
They are certainly disgusting, and they get grosser at every stage of the life cycle. Still, as the old man said, they're awful but mostly edible.
Back here in New Zealand, an obscure traditional delicacy (now completely out of fashion for some reason), was to hang a side of pork (or other meat), then scrape the maggots off and fry them. Delicious!
Haha, I shall tell Karli next time we can just eat them and move on. I may skip the maggots though (not saying there is anything wrong with it, just my weak stomach).
@theincompetentcrew ***MOSTLY*** edible
Another fine video, thanks for sharing. For your grains: if you freeze them for 24 hrs the cold should kill the eggs (which you can't see), an alternative is to fill your container with CO2, which also kills anything living, except tardigrades.
Thats a couple of really good tips! thanks for that. Will definitely use the freezer. Very simple. :)
Oh come on...we'll all be eating insects soon. Bill
Just a bit of extra protein really 😁
always better with the weevil you know 😅
Than the weevil we don't.
By the way...compliments to the pianist Bill
We liked that one too- Saturday Coffee by William Claeson :)
All rice has bugs in, normally too small to see. If you keep the rice long enough they grow up! Just wash the rice before you cook it. This is why you should always wash all rice before you cook it. However, they are just a bit gross, they wont hurt you. I spent 9 months in SE Asia, all over during the last two years. All the rice has bugs!!!
I guess it was just the tub we used the least, therefore they had the greatest chance to grow. Thanks for commenting :)
That's an any pantry problem
Thats reassuring. Its the first time in the last 7-8year travelling together we have had an issue. Thanks for commenting.
given a choice a sailor always chooses the lesser weevil 😅
Agreed, in the service, one must choose the lesser.
Throw on thy galoshers and arm the harpoon!
Walk thine plank brother
I'm sorry mateys, but you take too many risks re fishing crap and your prop by leaving a harbour ( especially like Culatra where there are often bad seas) at night. I keep advising you about these night entries/ exits in unknown harbours. You are riding your luck IMH (but exerienced) O. All the best.
Hi Moonhand, this isn't an unknown entry to us. We have been back and forward around here over the last 3 year. We have probably spent 2-3 months coming and going from Culatra alone most days. Its pretty familiar. 30min before sunrise in our books is fine timing for slack water here. 5 or 6 other boats seemed to be of the opinion slack water was the correct time to exit there too. I certainly wouldn't go out 3 hours later mid springs flow when the waves build, but i guess its personal choice.
To add and give a more complete picture- the sea state was 1m every 9seconds. Thats pretty calm. The wind barely a breeze (5knts). at 13min 19sec, you can see sunrise and looking back, the molhe a few hundred yards behind.
It always looks darker on camera.