Doing a good job stocking your boat for cruising means trusting yourself, even when it comes to food.
Provisioning for Cruising
on Your Boat
on Your Boat
How do you know how much food to take on the boat or even what foods travel well?
Tips to help you plan and provisions that have worked well on our boats.
🎧Provisioning Your Boat Without a Car
Provisioning your boat is a lot of work. It’s even more difficult without a car. But here are a few tips to make it easier.
🎧The Goldilocks Effect
Not too big, not too small; not too much, not too little. Hitting the magic food amount takes some surprising perspective, but it’s very very doable!
🎧The Soup To Nuts Kind of Provisioning
It’s like regular grocery shopping – with a twist. Learn why your worries about that first stock up on board are both real AND unfounded.
🎧My Favorite Way to Stay on Budget
Letting time lapse between grocery trips can be challenging – and intensely monetarily rewarding. There’s a crazy simple way to rein in your spending
🎧Stocking Up Food Stores in Foreign Ports
Wondering how to provision in a country where you don’t know the language? Lin Pardey shares tips from 70 countries for easy shopping and tasty meals.
🎧 How to Elminate Cardboard from Your Boat
14 specific step-by-step strategies to leave cardboard ashore, for less trash aboard and also fewer places to harbor bugs.
🎧Let’s Talk Meal Planning
Meal planning can be important, but not as important as how flexible you can be when thinking about the food. Relax, ask questions, and eat well!
🎧Cooking When You Have Extra Crew Aboard
How do you split the galley duties? Who pays for meals on shore? Just some of the questions to consider when you invite extra crew on board.
🎧How To Store Your Provisions – Lin Pardey’s Best Tips
Is it necessary to keep a stores list and update it constantly? How to prevent cans from rusting or marking up the inside of the boat.