Thanks for your perspective vytis104. I am considering bringing some pre-cooked/sealed/frozen meats from home, but not having done so before I am curious about your process. I was planning to wrap the sealed packages in newspaper and pack tightly into a polar bear cooler, then hope that everything stays frozen as long as possible. We will have a 12-hr day to get to STT, then I can pop stuff in the freezer of our rental in Red Hook overnight, then back into the cooler the next morning until we get on the boat at noon. We're chartering a 35-ft mono, so my understanding is that the refrigerator will be basically a glorified cooler (running the engine a couple hours in the a.m./p.m. to chill). No real freezer to speak of. Do your meats stay frozen for a couple days in the bottom of the boat fridge? Even at home, I wouldn't usually eat meat that had been in my refrigerator for 8 days, so I'm trying to figure out if things will stay cold enough long enough to be safe or if we need to try to pick up some protein in Trellis or someplace near the back end of our charter.