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ThePuch
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Initially Posted - 06/03/2006 : 02:26:18

Looking for ideas for provisioning the boat for a 5 day cruise for 2 persons. Have the usual: stove and grill but no oven. Ice chest or two.
Replenishment of ice possible, not guaranteed. Comfortable with some preparation. Looking for someones check off list.

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britinusa
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Response Posted - 06/03/2006 : 06:24:19

Glad to hear you are getting a real cruise on.
Things we take...
Wine opener/Can spanner
Roll of garbage bags.
Water - we take at least 60 bottles when we go on our 3 day trips.
Coffee (ground for percaltor)
Coffee Pot
Coffee Cups
Creamer/Milk(parmalot)
KFS and a slice,spatular, etc.
Snacks - we take a couple of boxes of southbeach bars, and some of those school lunchable cheese&ham trays from the store.
Liquid eggs (not egg beaters only because we like the real eggs better)

That should get you going

Paul
Paper plates and dishes (saves washing up)

For food we take sfuff we can cook on the grill and stuff we can boil in a bag.
Pubix sells some great meals (meatloaf,chicken-n-pasta,beeftips etc.) near the deli so we normally take 2 or 3 of them.

Did I mention beer and wine?

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Bill Holcomb
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Response Posted - 06/03/2006 : 08:22:49

Try to find the book "The Two Burner Gourmet" by Terry Searfoss. It has many great ideas; including meal menues, sample shopping lists, and sample 2-day, 3-day, and 5-day complete menues for breakfasts, lunch, snacks, and dinners. Lots of great ideas.

Bill Holcomb - C25 Snickerdoodle #4839

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stampeder
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Response Posted - 06/03/2006 : 11:15:00

Take your Geography into account. (Ignore this if you are going to stay on the boat for the full five days)

When we cruise Vancouver Island and Shuswap Lakes, we take lots of snack food and small meals (Kraft Dinner, Soup, buns&lunch meat, fruit) But we plan on taking most of our major meals at the many fine restaurants and marinas.

When we do cook major meals, we BBQ with our rail mounted Sea B Q, use paper plates. When we plan meals, we plan with clean up and disposal in mind. My favorite meal is BBQ salmon(frozen beforehand) boil in the bag veggies, instant mashed garlic potatoes in a cup (just add water).
Have a wonderful cruise.

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aeckhart
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Response Posted - 06/05/2006 : 07:00:25

Having spent 21 years in the Army, I have grown fond of Meals Ready to Eat (MRE's). A number of the them are very good, portable, store in the smallest places, and they have a very long shelf life. You can pick then up at any military surplus store at a fraction of the cost of commercial freeze dried foods available on the market. They make a great suppliment to fruit, fruit bars, sandwiches, pre-cooked/packaged chicken and canned goods.

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Tom Potter
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Response Posted - 06/07/2006 : 21:50:21

Welcome aboard!

My wife, son and I just spent 7 days and nights aboard on a cruise in the gulf. One of the the things you don't think of is trash accumulation. On the seven hour ride back home the wife and I talked on what worked and what didn't and what needs improvement. Trash was a big topic. One of the things we plan to change on the next trip is do away with the small bottled water and buy gallon jugs, also replace the can drinks with two liters. Those small bottles and cans made up 80% of the trash we had to store on board.

We're still working on the beer, she won't go for a keg.

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Lightnup
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Response Posted - 06/07/2006 : 23:48:23

Your cooler will stay cold much longer if it's already cold when you put the food in, so put a couple of frozen jugs of water in a few hours before you add the food. It's extra drinking water when it melts. I agree with Tom that the small bottles are a big contributor to having excess trash to toss.

By the way, if you have a roll of paper towels on board, it's amazing how many plastic grocery bags can be stuffed down inside that cardboard tube. Makes a great trash bag storage compartment.

Keep it simple. I prefer the ease of opening a package of Hostess cinnamon rolls for breakfast to the hassle of cooking and having to clean up the mess afterward.

Steve

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dlucier
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Response Posted - 06/08/2006 : 00:25:06

When cruising, we plan the itinerary so we are in port by late afternoon/early evening because my family likes to eat dinner on dry land (restaurants) to give them a chance to stretch their legs after a 6 to 8 hour sail. Since dinners are on land, we only provision breakfast and lunch items with the focus being on quick, easy prep and cleanup. Not only does this cut down on the amount of provisions and planning required, it saves a lot of extra work (cooking and cleaning) and results in a much more relaxed and happy crew.

As my wife says, "If I wanted to cook, clean, and do dishes on vacation, I'd do it in the comfort of my own home".

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PamC
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Response Posted - 06/08/2006 : 12:53:58

I agree that trash can become an issue onboard. That's why I'm more inclined to use my dishware & just do dishes to avoid alot of paper plates. We buy milk in 1/2 gallon plastic containers and reuse them to freeze water that we use in the coolers and drink as it melts. The half gallons are more manageble than the gallons. I also get rid of as much packaging at home as I can to avoid having to deal with it on the boat. Dave & I both enjoy cooking, so that's part of the recreation - to a point. We skipped a meal or two because what we had planned was more hassle than we wanted to deal with so now we always keep a couple of extra easy things on board for those times (ie. cold cuts & cheese, fruit, chili). And my best friend the Magma grill can handle a lot of cooking stuff without having to mess up the galley. We've even done pizza on it.

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ilnadi
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Response Posted - 06/08/2006 : 15:46:54

1. There are decent wines in boxes and will keep (no air gets in)
2. MRE's are heavy but do not require water to be eaten;
can be left in the sun to warm up.
3. Baby wipes are great for quick clean-up
4. Canned fruit is nice but makes an awful mess.

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ThePuch
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Response Posted - 06/11/2006 : 19:14:40

Thanks to all for the benifit of your experience. I even found a copy of "The two burner.."

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britinusa
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Response Posted - 06/11/2006 : 22:19:14

Back to the issue of drinking water.
I think we all pretty much rule out drinking from the onboard tank and resort to bottled water, so it's down to an issue of the size bottle.
We typically carry 48-60 pint bottles of water on board.
Here in south florida, we drink lots of it! That's a must.

handing out the 1pt bottles is real easy, and handy, can be recapped as needed, but normally we sink a full bottle in a few minutes.
If we had to meter out the water into a cup/beaker/capped insulated beaker, it might reduce the amount of water we drank and that would not be good.

So we figure the best option for us is to use the 1pt bottles and freeze them before we leave home. Then use them as ice in the cooler and drink them when thawed. I'll probably build in a 2nd cooler in one of the cabin lockers to hold the frozen bottles.
Yep, it does result in lot of plastic (we recycle heavily down here) to take back home. We handle that by having a large waste bag in the Stbd cockpit locker that is just for trash. I really should have a 2nd just for recyclables.

Paul.

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Lightnup
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Response Posted - 06/12/2006 : 09:24:33

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by britinusa
 Back to the issue of drinking water.
I think we all pretty much rule out drinking from the onboard tank and resort to bottled water, so it's down to an issue of the size bottle.
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Paul.
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Very true. Which is why I'm planning on removing the tank (neither of my faucets work anyway) and turning that area into much needed storage capacity. The only thing that has stopped me is concern that it might be a negative for a future potential buyer and, living in a condo, I have no place to store the old tank.

Steve

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