Bartering

[Mortblanc]

Yep, and within a year after the apocalypse someone will have rigged up an pleasure boat with sails so they can make the run down the African coast to fetch some tea back for you!

You can count on it.

In my area we had not finished fighting the Native Americans off and were still living on subsistence agriculture and we were shipping whisky and rope 1500 miles down the rivers to New Orleans. My little area supplied much of the rope for your wind driven fleet.

England did not rule the waves just because they enjoyed the ocean breeze, they were bartering manufactured goods for raw materials world wide.