I had a similar experience w our pix....It really is about the friends that are made. Can't wait till next we sail. Rick M23 Raven In a message dated 8/12/2009 7:05:26 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, montgomery_boats-request@mailman.xmission.com writes: Send montgomery_boats mailing list submissions to montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to montgomery_boats-request@mailman.xmission.com You can reach the person managing the list at montgomery_boats-owner@mailman.xmission.com When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of montgomery_boats digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Cliff Notes from "Fridgeless Crusing" by Connie McBride (Joe Murphy) 2. Re: more market research! (eisenee@aol.com) 3. Re: more market research and leaky ports (eisenee@aol.com) 4. Re: more market research and leaky ports (eisenee@aol.com) 5. Open Letter to all teh Montgomery San Juan'ers (Nebwest2@aol.com) 6. Re: more market research and leaky ports (Joe Murphy) 7. Re: Open Letter to all teh Montgomery San Juan'ers (Eeeisen@aol.com) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 20:11:32 -0400 From: "Joe Murphy" <seagray@embarqmail.com> To: "For and about Montgomery Sailboats" <montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com> Subject: M_Boats: Cliff Notes from "Fridgeless Crusing" by Connie McBride Message-ID: <96B392B085694EAD818A7E7F2F66133B@D72VSMG1> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original I hope I'm not violating any copywrite laws, but I had gotten enough responses to synopsize the article in the Nov/Dec 2008 Good Old Boat. So here it is in a nutshell. I gleaned the pieces that I thought were oriented to our issue. "Chilled food is a luxury, not a necessity. Keep most "refrigerate after opening foods' at room temperature for as long as it take to use them up. (Keep in mind, the McBrides are full time liveaboards). Eggs - although Lin Pardey mentions coating eggs with Vaseline or sodium silicate and has kept eggs for 3 months by turning them three times a week, Connie admits that she doesn't go through all this. She just keeps them in what used to be their on board refrigerator and without doing anything else they keep for three weeks. Just to make sure, she cracks them in a separate bowl before using them in any mix. She claims that she has lost less than a dozen eggs over the past four years. Mayonaise - if you never put a dirty utensil in the jar. In fact her rule was to never put any utensil of any kind in the jar, but to shake out what you need. Not only did her mayo last up to a month but the even ate leftover potato sald the lollowing day for lunch. She buys plastic jars of Majo to make it easier and recommends that if you can find it, to get the squeeze bottles. Same rules for jelly which can last for three weeks. Dairy Products - Butter and margarine must be handled carefully. Sticks of margaine do not melt and will keep for up to a month. She stores each pound in a clean plastic food storage container, date it, and rotate the sotck. Margarine in a a generally melts at a lower timperature a nd the container do not seal well enough to prevent accidents. Butter melts more easily but if you enjoy using it for baking it will keep for a while before it turns rancid. (We keep our butter out all the time at home and have never had a problem. JM) She buys cheese in small portins and store each one in a separate airtight container and tries to use it in a few days after it's opened. Unopened, it does not mold for weeks, though it does get sharper. Harde cheeses, such as Parmesan and Romano, stay fresh much longer. Milk - she used to buy UHT milk (Parmalat) until a few of the boxes spoilled. After opening they lasted less than a day. She no carries canned cream, evaporated milk, nad condensed milk for cooking and baking. For everday milk they use Nido or other brands of powdered whole milk. Used for cereal, coffee, and for cooking and it tasts ... like warm milk. Meat- In port, they buy fresh and cook it within a few hours. She wraps forzen meat in layers of towels and stores it in an insulated cold/hot bag for up to 24 hours before cooking. Canned meat is used often. Spam, forned beef, canned tuna, chicken, salmon, etc. She suggests canned chicken turkey and beef from Werling and Sones www.werlingandsons.com. Chorizo and ham tidbits keep for several weeks before using. ONce opened, she treats them like fresh meat and cooks them immediately. She bought a cured ham. After opeing it the first time, she wipes the ham down with vinegar. Anytime she uses some, she wipes the newly exposed area with vinegar. As an alternative to meat, she substitutes several alternatives. Soya chunks (textured vegetable protein) is available in different sizes. Small size is a suitable substitute for ground beef. Her favorite meat alternatives are beans, i.e., lentils, spit peas, garbanzo beans, pigeon peas, and black beans. (Hey, anybody notice she didn't include Bush's?? JM) Use totillas or pita bread for tacos and chimichangas. She recommends Janet Horsley's "Bean Cuisine". Fresh Produce Challenges - Remove any plastic wrap or bags immediately and keep produce separated. Onions are best stored in the light definitely not with potatoes, which should be stored in the dark, preferably with apples. Apples should never be stored with citrus fruits. The sense of smell is a well used tool when living without refrigeration. She gives everything a sniff test before eating it: eggs, mayo, jelly, leftovers, and even canned food.Some foods mold overnight, i.e., sliced tomatos. So, that's the jist of her article. I don't know about you but I'm gonna go get a piece of fried chicken! Joe ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:44:57 EDT From: eisenee@aol.com To: montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com Subject: Re: M_Boats: more market research! Message-ID: <c6d.5596efc1.37b4ca19@aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" As I said in my initial response to Jerry's market research if you want a clorex bottle with stainless handrails and hatch slides get a McGregor you get all that and can pull skiers too. Let's keep a traditional appearances. Eldor M17 Motu iti ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:49:12 EDT From: eisenee@aol.com To: montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com Subject: Re: M_Boats: more market research and leaky ports Message-ID: <cec.5fd493df.37b4cb18@aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Yes, the original owner of Motu iti had reversed the hatch before I bought her. She is a 1992 model and it works great. Eldor M17 Motu iti ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:51:44 EDT From: eisenee@aol.com To: montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com Subject: Re: M_Boats: more market research and leaky ports Message-ID: <bf2.596a6d2d.37b4cbb0@aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" All that air will dry it out in a hurry. Eldor Motu iti ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:53:14 EDT From: Nebwest2@aol.com To: montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com Subject: M_Boats: Open Letter to all teh Montgomery San Juan'ers Message-ID: <bcd.52b6d488.37b4cc0a@aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" To all of you that we accompanied on the San Juan/Gulf Islands trip: I just received (couple of days ago) the dvd with all the group photos. Big thanks to Randy who went to all the trouble to compile it and send them out! Wow! Well over 2000 pictures from the 14 days we spent together. Some of you guys should be pro photographers. So...I sat down and started going through them. I thought I'd go through and pull every picture that had anything to do with Jo and I, Bosun or Dauntless. It took a couple of hours. When I got done, as you can imagine I had a ton of shots, like a couple hundred. I was so excited to put them all together in a slide-show, which I did. After another couple of hours I finally got to play my "Dauntless specific" slide-show. How cool is that!? Well, I'll tell you........shortly after starting the slide show I had this "empty" feeling...something wasn't right...something was missing. Back into the dvd I dove...spending another couple hours fixing the problem. What was the problem? you ask.......you guys weren't in my "Dauntless specific" show!! I went back through the dvd flagging all the cool shots of the rest of you guys....I put them in with the shots of Dauntless I flagged and.... WALA!!! That was it!!! I had to cut the slide-show down to just my "favorites". It's now a mere 413 pictures!!! hahaha At 2.5 seconds per shot it STILL takes about 16 minutes to watch them all. In the background I put some music that I like and I have to tell you that it almost chokes me up to watch it. To realize that Jo and I are fortunate enough to be able to make a trip like that, and to think about the caliber of friends we've made................well, it's just awesome. I hope you guys find the same enjoyment when you go through the literally thousands of pictures and videos. And as for you...Larry................. Well, I forgive you for the video about the Polluting the Puget Sound! hahaha (but it took me a while!) hahaha. Seriously, though, .....Thank You Buddy. You are a true gentleman, a great friend, and you've given so many of us such a great gift by all your efforts to bring us together. That truly was a "trip of a lifetime". I gotta go now. I haven't watched the slide-show for about an hour and I need to go refresh my memory on what a great trip it was again!.....and again....and again........ :-) What was that about 2011???? :-) Sean M23 "Dauntless" ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 22:01:30 -0400 From: "Joe Murphy" <seagray@embarqmail.com> To: "For and about Montgomery Sailboats" <montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com> Subject: Re: M_Boats: more market research and leaky ports Message-ID: <4015C294247C46EA88CEBC0B91403812@D72VSMG1> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Eldor, Did you set up the end boom mainsheet that I think I detect in your photos?? Joe ----- Original Message ----- From: <eisenee@aol.com> To: <montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 9:49 PM Subject: Re: M_Boats: more market research and leaky ports
Yes, the original owner of Motu iti had reversed the hatch before I bought her. She is a 1992 model and it works great. Eldor M17 Motu iti _______________________________________________ http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats
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------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 22:04:50 EDT From: Eeeisen@aol.com To: montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com Subject: Re: M_Boats: Open Letter to all teh Montgomery San Juan'ers Message-ID: <c20.627e338a.37b4cec2@aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" We need to see some current pictures of Bosun. I'm sure he has continued to grow! He was great fun to have on the cruise. And you are right, it certainly was a trip of a lifetime. And there aren't words to describe the friends we met. I'm sorry that I didn't get our pictures to Randy but I couldn't figure out how to get them off the netbook. If anyone is interested, here is a link to the album that I was able to upload. _http://picasaweb.google.com/montysailors/RecentlyUpdated_ (http://picasaweb.google.com/montysailors/RecentlyUpdated) # Dorothy Eisen M-17 Motu iti fixed keel ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ montgomery_boats mailing list montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats Remember, there is no privacy on the Internet! End of montgomery_boats Digest, Vol 78, Issue 39 ************************************************