Provisioning to Cruise
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This page was last updated on 2 September, 2004
Time is getting short. We're still on track to leave the slip in a month. Yipes! A month and so much still to do: stock up, finish projects, quit work (the job that pays, I mean), learn about watermakers and install one. Holy cow, can we complete all that in just a month?
Stan sorting our first round of provisions in the cockpit.
Spent $500 at the LA Air Base commissary on our first provisioning run. Everybody knows Mexicans don't eat, there's no food in Mexico, and we need to stockpile hundreds of dollars of food for this trip. Same for clothing, gotta stock up, now, cuz Mexicans all run around naked, no clothes in Mexico.
Naw, just kidding; we're not stocking up on food or clothes. We're looking forward to shopping the tiendas. However, we discovered on our 2002 cruise in Baja that toiletries and cosmetics are a bit more expensive there. Our first provisioning effort focused on bed, bath and beyond.
Stan and Gale with the cash
register receipt, amidst MJ's sewing mess.
The present provisioning philosophy is spend now - spend less, which seems alot like shop the sales - save money. Faulty logic or not, we stocked up on vitamins, lotions, soaps, litter and cat food. Filled up two dock carts hauling it all from the car to the boat. I don't know where it all went, but SolMate's bottomless lockers swallowed it up.
Some of the semi-perishable items were vacuum packed, some were divvied into smaller containers or Ziploc bags. Three garbagebags full of cardboard packaging were stripped off and sent right back to shore-side trash (cockroach prevention). The cat food migrated to the bilge; and the toiletries, into the locker behind the holding tank. Provisioning could become like packing a suitcase: keep adding clothes until the suitcase is full, need 'em or not; or keep stocking up on supplies until all the lockers are full, need 'em or not.
