Northern Light - Without a fridge

There’s a lot of advice out there for provisioning a boat to do a long journey. In the last few months I’ve been given several books, watched YouTube clips, and talked to many people. One piece of advice always stands out as being especially sensible: if you wouldn’t eat it at home, don’t take it with you. Well, no offence to all the experts.But when I’m at home my diet is predominantly fresh meat, fish, full fat dairy products, salad, and the best wine we can reasonably afford. And there is pretty much no way we can take any of that with us, because we won’t have a fridge. Let alone a freezer, which seems to be a must-have gadget for everyone in our pontoon-neighbourhood. It’s raised a good many eyebrows, and even hands flung up in horror - ‘how CAN you???’ But our skipper wants us to. read more...