My provisioning choices are different depending on whether I’m buying food for a short trip or a longer one. Learn the differences.
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.
How to Provision Your Boat
Provisioning your boat? Remember one simple rule to have meals you’ll love eating. I call it the second rule of provisioning.
How to Make Sure You Use the Oldest Supplies First on a Boat
When you bring provisions on board, do you just stuff them in anywhere? Learn how to do it to ensure that you’ll use the oldest first!
Buying and Storing Dried Fruits on a Boat
Eleven tips for buying dried fruit at a farmer’s market or roadside stand, instead of commercial packages.
Boat Provisioning & Water
Provisioning your boat? Be sure to consider your boat’s fresh water supply and how long it has to last. Learn exactly how to do this.
Boat Life: Try One First!
Don’t end up with a bunch of a food you don’t like. Buy one and try it before you stock up! Especially important if you’re heading to a remote area.
Selecting Vegetables for Boat Voyages – Lin Pardey
Lin Pardey explains how to select produce that will last the longest on a sea voyage in a video tour of a farmer’s market.
PB2 – Fantastic Powdered Peanut Butter for Boaters
PB2 has 1/3 the weight, 85% less fat, half the sodium, and one-quarter the calories of “low fat” peanut butter . . . but all the taste!
Great Powdered Milk
Save space and weight aboard with powdered milk for your baking and cooking — if you know where to get the good stuff, you’ll be surprised at how good it is!
Favorite Spices for Boat Life
Thirteen favorite spices — and four liquids — make my essential list when space is limited on a boat or other tiny kitchen.