Cask-cured, not crated
Our salt-and-smoke cure halts ripening the day the stem is cut. Sealed in oak with a cedar liner, the fruit keeps its sugar and its shape through eighteen months of swell.
⚓ Provisioning the Caribbean since 1687
Bananas that survive the crossing.
Cask-cured provisions, banana grog and fibre rigging for fleets that measure a voyage in months, not days. Eighteen months in the hold, still fit to eat — or your doubloons back.
Royal Warrant holder · Admiralty-approved victualler · No scurvy since 1703
What sails in every cask
- 18-month hold life — salt-cured and sealed at Port Royal, tested to the Tortuga run and back.
- Zero spoilage guarantee — we replace any cask that turns, no questions, no bilge lawyers.
- Dockside delivery in 43 ports, from Nassau to Cartagena, tide permitting.
- Manifest paperwork filed for you — customs, excise and the awkward questions.
Trusted by the fleets that keep the trade winds busy
Sevenseas Sail & Rigging
Red Anchor Shipbuilders
Eastwind Rum Merchants
Port Royal Charts & Maps
Kraken’s Bell Foundry
Smuggler’s Cove Logistics
The problem with fruit at sea
Most provisions rot before the halfway mark
A green banana loaded at Port Royal is black by Barbados. Crews go without, the surgeon gets busy, and the captain buys twice. We spent three hundred years fixing that.
Priced by the voyage
Pay for the crossing you are actually making. Tell us crew size, route and duration and we build the manifest to match — no minimum tonnage, no cask left half empty.
Guaranteed against scurvy
Every cask carries a certified ascorbic charge. Provision your crew to our schedule and we indemnify the voyage against scurvy claims. We have not paid one out since 1703.
Our provisions
Four holds, one supplier
Everything a quartermaster signs for, cured and coopered in the same yard.
Cask-Cured Bananas
The mainstay. Salt-cured, oak-sealed, 18-month hold life. Sold by the half-cask, full cask or pallet, graded fine, common or crew.
Banana Grog & Rum
Distilled from the overripe crop that would otherwise go over the side. 43% ABV, barrel-rested, and the reason our crews volunteer for the long routes.
Banana-Fibre Rigging
Stem fibre, retted and laid into three-strand line. Holds a splice better than hemp, costs a third less, and does not rot in the tropics.
1687
Trading from Port Royal since
43
Ports with dockside delivery
71%
Average spoilage reduction
2,400+
Vessels provisioned last season
How it works
Green stem to sealed cask in nine days
Cut green
Stems come down at three-quarter fill from our groves on the windward slope, never from the ripening sheds. Green fruit cures; ripe fruit rots.
Salt and smoke
Six days in the curing house over slow cedar smoke, turned twice daily by hand. This is the part nobody has managed to copy.
Cooper and seal
Packed into oak with a cedar liner, headed and pitched by our own coopers, then stamped with the cure date and the cooper’s mark.
Load and sail
Delivered alongside at your berth with the manifest and excise paperwork already filed. Your bosun signs one sheet and you are away on the tide.
From the quarterdeck
What captains say
“We ran the Cartagena route twice on Barrie’s casks and lost nothing. Nothing. The previous victualler had us throwing a third of the hold over the side by week six. The sums are not complicated.”
“The fibre line is the quiet win. Cheaper than hemp, holds a splice, and it has not rotted through a single wet season. We have re-rigged nineteen ships on it.”
“Their people file the excise paperwork before we even berth. For a fleet our size that is a full day of the purser’s week handed straight back.”
Provision your next crossing
Tell us the route and the crew size. We will have a costed manifest back to you within two days, and a cask on your deck within the fortnight.
Or take the Captain’s Log — one letter a month, no rum advertisements.