GL: Sterling Lady "Stuck"

[P. King]

In answer to question - "What is a soda machine?"  It is a neat machine that
carbonates plain water and then you add syrup of any number of colas, tonics,
fruit drinks, etc. and don't have to store soda cans or bottles on board and
can make it on demand.

We heard about it from some other cruisers in the Bahamas this winter and had
planned to get one when we returned.  We just lucked out on the price at
Boater's World store closing because they are around a hundred dollars.

The machine works without electricity or batteries, just the pressure from the
CO2 bottle.  Here is a website on the actual machine and the syrups you can
purchase.  I love Diet Coke and I found the Diet Cola just equal to the real
stuff.  My husband likes diet tonic water for his Vodka and Tonics - we
haven't tried that yet - but the boaters who told us about it claimed that
that was what they bought it for.  They claimed that the regular and diet
tonic water syrups worked great for them.

You chill a bottle of water, put it in the machine and carbonate it, then add
small amount of syrup and it is ready to go.  Makes up in one liter bottles.
It works great when you are anchoring out a lot in locations where you cannot
find a grocery.

www.sodaclub.com

You do have to store the machine on board, along with the extra CO2 bottles
and the one liter bottles, along with some syrup, but if you calculated the
space for all the sodas that it would make, the space is much less.

By the way, I am not affiliated with soda club.

Happy cruising, Penny

"The true worth of your travels lies not in where you come to be at the end of
your journey's end, but in who you come to be along the way."



Follow along on the travels of "Pretty Penny" on our blog at
http://prettypennycruise.blogspot.com





>
> WHAT is a soda club machine?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "P. King" <rnpking at hotmail.com>
> To: "Great Loop address" <great-loop at lists.samurai.com>
> Sent: Monday, May 18, 2009 3:09 PM
> Subject: Re: GL: Sterling Lady "Stuck"
>
>
> > Sterling, We too are stuck in Brunswick.  First time in months we had to
> > break
> > out long sleeve shirts and long pants as we are returning from winter in
> > the
> > Bahamas.
> >
> > We discovered that the Boater's World store here is closing (as are all
of
> > there stores) and found that they were selling Soda Club machines for at
> > net
> > of $15.99 with rebate coupon.  We had been wanting that - it is quite a
> > deal.
> >
> > Stay warm,  Bob and Penny on Pretty Penny