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Re: Water on board/grog
From: Geoffrey Kolbe
Date: 2012 Aug 29, 06:08 +0100
From: Geoffrey Kolbe
Date: 2012 Aug 29, 06:08 +0100
At 05:56 29/08/2012, you wrote: >Somewhat off topic, but... > >Drinking water being a recent sub thread, I have long been a fan of >good grog. Water, Pusser's Rum, raw sugar and lime juice. > >Since my youth, I've been on hundreds of wooden ships, both restored >originals and replicas. I have never noticed a system to collect rainwater. > >Were there such systems in place, or was the water all from barrels >stored on board? > >Bill B Patrick O'Brian includes this procedure in his Aubrey-Maturin plots many times, so there is probably good historical evidence for this. Geoffrey
