Becoming a Sailor

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Provisionning

Provisioning shares how we plan, shop, and stock up to travel to remote places. I’ll tell you where to find cabbage that beads with freshness, and how we make coffee in places where espresso doesn’t exist. Beyond that, Provisioning covers the Olympic sport of hauling groceries out by dinghy and finding space for it all aboard.

  1. Weeviling: managing weevils on a sailboat in Micronesia

    How we spot weevil eggs in the store, why we strip off cardboard, and how freezing flour, rice, pasta and legumes keeps weevils out of a tropical galley.

  2. Fiji Biosecurity Rules: Using Up Contraband Food at Sea

    Fiji biosecurity bans fresh produce, eggs, honey and pork on arrival. How we provisioned in New Zealand and cooked our way through the contraband at sea.

  3. Easy Dairy-Free Mint Chocolate Chunk Ice Cream (No-Churn)

    A no-churn, dairy-free mint chocolate chunk ice cream made with almond and coconut milk, no machine needed. Our recipe for a son with allergies.

  4. Going Meatless in the Dominican Republic: Our Beans Recipe

    Six weeks in Luperón turned me off local meat. How our cruising family went meatless, plus a pressure pot recipe for making beans with lentils and apple.

  5. First Dinghy Drive: Grocery Shopping Without a Car

    Grocery shopping from a boat with no car: my first dinghy drive, a half-mile walk with a wagon, four broken eggs and a bag of carrots rescued by paddle.

  6. Off-Grid Ice Cream on a Sailboat: Our Lello Musso Pola

    How we make ice cream off the grid on our sailboat: a 60+lb Lello Musso Pola, a dedicated inverter, and dairy-free recipes for our son's food allergies.

  7. Meal planning and provisioning for a family afloat: six suggestions for cruisers

    Six provisioning rules from skipper Mark Burton: strip cardboard, precook meat, and plan milk, produce, bread and drinking water per person per day.

  8. Grocery List for a 4-Day Passage: Provisioning From Scratch

    My full grocery list and menu for a four-day, two-person sailing passage from Fort Lauderdale to Bradenton, stocking an empty boat from a bare pantry.