Provisioning Tips For Sailing An Ocean, An Exact Provisioning List, vid#20 P Childress Sailing
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This is a proven provision list for 6 people for 12 days at sea or 2 people for 36 days. What is and is not available as you sail around the world. Prevention of weevils, to What to stock up on. How to provision your boat for an offshore passage on Bluewater sailboat. Where to provision, crossing the Pacific. Where to fill propane tanks, did we use the watermaker, water testing around the world, Video#20 You can get the Provisioning list from our sailing blog below: http://whereisbrickhouse.com/provisioning-list-for-crossing-oceans/ Plenty more "how to" videos are at www.youtube.com/patrickchildress Here is my favorite bowl in my galley(though Rebecca disagrees): https://amzn.to/2QqseqH #bluewatersailboat #WhereIsBrickHouse #PatrickChildressSailing
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You can of course eat what the locals eat almost anywhere for cheap - after all that is the point of travel to experience - not to ,miss the packaged products of `home'
Nescafe is NOT coffee!
Real coffee comes from fresh ground beans & is easily & best made in a french press usually is inexpensive as long as you brew your own!
In the Philippines it seems almost impossible to get rid of ants and cockroaches while tied to a dock. I however use boron powder (essentially the killer ingredient in borax) mixed with light molasses to great success with ants. With cockroaches it takes a little while longer, but usually within a few days of leaving port my sailboat is infestation free.
I don't think bay leaves will do anything to stop an infestation of weevils but it does seem to stop them from spreading to other containers. As a habit I repackage all grains and flour in weevil proof containers. It will hopefully either lock them in or lock them out. You’ve most definitely – unknowingly - ingested weevils, their eggs and/or parts as they can be present in produce from a processing plant. In this case, ignorance is definitely bliss.
Thanks for another great video Patrick. I am currently laid up, and any entertainment is a blessing.
I had a knockdown in March 2018 that badly injured my spine, and I am currently on the surgery waiting list. One of my adult sons has come to stay with me in the Philippines until I have recovered. In the meantime he is learning to sail, and we are getting to really know each other. Before my accident it had been almost eight years since I saw my family in person. Sometimes God works in mysterious ways.
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A couple of questions for you. I am currently land locked in Nebraska, and have a 21ft training vessel as I refer to it, with plans to be out in the deep water within 5 to 8 years. I therefore may harbor some views that are not feasible in the real world that you inhabit.
I have this rather peculiar desire to integrate some pioneering, and bush craft methods into my sailing plans. I may come to a more reasonable perspective in time, or with the aid of wisdom gained by those such as yourself. I imagine that I would be very stingy with propane, and power in general as most probably are, but would also very much enjoy self made comfort food and the like. You mentioned that you rarely bake, which makes sense. Would you think that the weight of a Dutch Oven be worth the possible benefits?
I imagine in my version of sailing around and about that I may have ample opportunity to pitch camp and do some baking/cooking on shore that I could provision the boat with. Is this realistic? A little more out there is an idea to make charcoal for your grill on deck.
Thanks much, very much appreciate your approach to youtube, and your sincere desire to share the wealth of your knowledge.
Don
Dutch Oven...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGBvqNJ8H-U
primitive charcoal...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzLvqCTvOQY
I can appreciate you outdoor survival/living skills
interest and trying to transfer that to a sailing environment. I used to live in the mountains of Colorado and worked at the Henderson, molybdenum, mine for several years. I got into the outdoor survival skills and did a training trip to Blanding, Utah living off the land for several days, setting out with only a knife and blanket. Eventually I moved from Colorado, back to Miami, where I grew up, so
I could buy a sailboat and begin a dreamed of voyage. I sailed away from Miami, in 1979, to sail solo around the world on a Catalina 27. That trip was more like backpacking across oceans. That boat was sparse. It did have a flushable head, a sink with a 12 gallon water tank, stereo, VHF radio and the depth sounder was the keel. There were no chart plotters or GPS in those days. The two burner stove was alcohol which is a miserable,
cold flame fuel. So I changed the burners to use mineral spirits which is nearly twice as hot as alcohol. At that time, alcohol was the
only “safe” stove fuel accepted by the U.S. Coast Guard. No one used propane as
it was deemed far to dangerous for use on a boat for cooking. On that 3 year
circumnavigation, I did a lot of experimenting with fishing and living off the
ocean. It was in 1984 or 1985 I had an article in Cruising World called “Sifting
for Plankton”. It was about using panty hose and real plankton nets to catch
plankton for food. Sea birds, ate a few of them. There is just a bit of muscle
under their wings and a fat sack near their tail but otherwise not much there
to eat. I ate plenty of fish and lobsters but you have to be aware of ciguatera
in the Bahamas and the Tuamoto Atolls, in French Polynesia. I lived on Suwarrow atoll for a week using very little from my stores on board. But that was a losing deal as I was burning up more energy chasing fish with my spear gun than what energy I was getting back….but there were some very happy sharks at Suwarrow who thought the fish on the end of my spear was a gift for them. In the end, it became much easier to just open a can of food than to go out and gather it. Please watch the video on “Coconuts, All You Need to Know”. A lot of that information I learned back in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
I watched the links you listed. They are interesting but just not, in my thinking, applicable to every day cruising. The world is not always so open and free as it once was and there is not always a shore to pull up to and set up an overnight camp or for making charcoal without someone calling the police or causing some sort of commotion. Where we are anchored right now, in Tanzania, Africa, we are surrounded by mangroves and the areas of dry land is owned by someone. Even here the locals may not be kindly to have some out of towner just setting up a camp on their shore. Rather than a Dutch Oven, onboard cooking becomes more
energy efficient by using a pressure cooker. You can even bake bread in them. Long ago, the sailing magazines always had pressure cooking articles and recipes. A newer cooking item, a few cruisers are now using, is a “thermal cooker”. You partially cook the food on the stove, chili for example, then put it in the insulated “thermos” so the residual heat will finish the cooking in a few hours. A solar cooker looks like a very worth while idea. Keep on doing your research. I will be interested to know how your project progresses.
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This video made me giggle, though. Got to say, I can't agree with your sentiments regarding American food. Maybe as South Africans we're a bit spoiled by the great quality of our SA food :)) We lived in the USA around 1999-2000 for a year, and my biggest challenge was finding what we would consider 'decent' food! So I'm talking from experience.
Anyways, when you do get to SA, be sure to shop around (it's probably more expensive than USA for some things, especially convenience items liked canned butter, but not everything) Maybe even try out some restaurants - SA is reknowned for it's good nosh!
Boy, the one thing I really, really miss being here in Mauritius is the food back home. But maybe it's the same for all of us - we all think our home country's stuff is the best, no matter what. I do like that here in MU we have so much more access to international brands from Auz, NZ and France - especially their dairy products.
What I actually wanted to comment was regarding refrigerating eggs. It's only a habit, and I used to as well. But it is really unnecessary, and I've not found that eggs actually last longer refrigerated. Perhaps it depends on the source of the eggs?
I learned a tip when travelling overland through Africa for 6 months in high temperatures. Keep the eggs in a shaded, dry place. Turn the eggs in their container weekly, and you should have no problems with them lasting unrefrigerated for 8 weeks or more. They were SA eggs ;) If you are nervous or doubtful about an egg after several weeks, just do the water test with the egg in a cup. Here in Mauritius, I've also never refrigerated them, even in summer, and they last just fine if I remember to turn them regularly.
Hope you have a pleasant pasage to Madagascar, looking forward to your next installment. Bon voyage!
oh - and thanks for the info on water quality in Mauritius! I drink the tap water, but was never quite certain... good to know that it's high quality. I really do tear my hair out when I see the locals as well as tourists buying tons of plastic water bottles for everyday use. Recycling is not exactly big here, either.