Hints and Tips
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Hints and Tips - by JeanneP
HOL-TITE-HANDLE. Be sure to have at least one on board. Handle with suction cups to hold you against the hull when washing the topsides from a dinghy, or when diving on the hull to clean or repair something (BOAT/US calls them Hol-Tite Handle)
PLASTIC BUCKETS - Good to have plastic handles, best is when you make your own rope handle. Useful for laundry, general carry-all, emergency bailers. Keep lids. If you ever go to the San Blas Islands in Panama, you can trade 5-gallon buckets with lids to the Kuna Indians for Molas, but they're not interested in them if they don't have lids.
HAND PUMP. Always keep a small Hand pump - for bailing dinghy, bilge, etc.
QUICK & EASY WAY TO MAKE YOGHURT. Sometimes it helps to know where somebody is from. In the U.S. you can buy freeze-dried yoghurt culture in health food stores. Still needs refrigeration but is easy to carry. Otherwise, use approximately 1 tablespoon cultured plain yoghurt and put it into about 2 cups scalded milk brought to room temperature. Leave overnight, then refrigerate. If you set some in a coffee sock or paper coffee filter to drain you will get a thicker yoghurt that can be substituted for sour cream, and the whey that drains can be used to make your next batch of yoghurt. The whey can be kept in the refrigerator for a day or two.
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JeanneP.
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