On Mon, 03 May 2004 05:56:49 -0500, Rick Morel wrote:

Lot's of info snipped

Nice story! What I do miss however is the part about laundry...how do
you wash your clothes?


Cheers!


Remco

What clothes?

Carry two pair of swim trunks and drag one behind the boat in a mesh bag for
awhile. Salt water cleans them very well! Now, if you're doing the loop,
that's a different story.

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Keith
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"The quickest way to double your money is to fold it
over and put it back in your pocket." - Will Rogers
"Remco Moedt" wrote in message
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On Mon, 03 May 2004 05:56:49 -0500, Rick Morel wrote:

Lot's of info snipped

Nice story! What I do miss however is the part about laundry...how do
you wash your clothes?


Cheers!


Remco

On Mon, 3 May 2004 07:35:11 -0500, "Keith"
wrote:

What clothes?

Carry two pair of swim trunks and drag one behind the boat in a mesh bag for
awhile. Salt water cleans them very well! Now, if you're doing the loop,
that's a different story.


Well, since I live in the Netherlands, I don't think 2 pair of shorts
will cut it.... :-)


Cheers!


Remco

"Remco Moedt" wrote

Well, since I live in the Netherlands, I don't think 2 pair of shorts
will cut it.... :-)

So sail south.

Yea, isn't that the point? ;-)

--


Keith
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No husband has ever been shot while doing the dishes.
"Vito" wrote in message
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"Remco Moedt" wrote

Well, since I live in the Netherlands, I don't think 2 pair of shorts
will cut it.... :-)

So sail south.

On Mon, 03 May 2004 05:56:49 -0500, Rick Morel wrote:

Lot's of info snipped

On Mon, 03 May 2004 12:25:31 GMT, (Remco
Moedt) wrote:
Nice story! What I do miss however is the part about laundry...how do
you wash your clothes?

What clothes? Seriously, we had tried one of those Amish washers. It
worked but was really a lot of trouble to use and difficult to store.
Wound up using a 5-gal bucket and a small toilet plunger. It actually
uses less fresh water to wash and rinse than to use sal****er, then
rinse with fresh. Of course having a watermaker helped.

Rick

"Remco Moedt" wrote in message laundry...how do
you wash your clothes?

If your truly cruising, your clothing needs will be fairly simple. The best
laundry system I have found is a bucket on the fwd deck. The motion of the
boat will slush the water around as good as a washing machine.

I have played around with this some and found one of those after market
screw-on lids for a standard,round, 5 gal., plastic pail. This allowed us to
lay the bucket on it's side once filled with water, detergent and clothes.
The 'slushing' action was better if the pail lay so the bottom and top were
port/stbd and held in place with bungie cords.

We were able to do about half a normal machine load at a time in a 5 gal.
pail..

If your not underway, then the old plunger in the bucket works also..

My largest problem with any hand/boat laundry situation is the wringing out
the water. If too much water is left in the clothes they take for ever to
dry (especially in the tropics). Hand wringing is hard on the fabric and
ruins the shape of most knit wear. The next best thing is a hand crank
roller wringer. The old ones that you might find at garage sales will
usually have deteriorated rubber rollers.
The new ones a more novelty than functional. I have been using a commercial
mop wringer but that is hard to mount or store.

To conserve water (as we did in the old days on the farm), we would wash
the white first then the colored in the same water. This means that you have
to catch and retain the water as you wring it out between wash and rinse.
This means you need several buckets or tubs.

After all of this is tried, I suspect that most living aboard at anchor or
maraina, will opt for the nearest laundrimat..

Steve
s/v Good Intentions

"Steve" wrote


we would wash
the white first then the colored in the same water.

This was before desegregation, right?

SV