Friday, February 09, 2018

BAHAMAS here i come! along with the provisioning to do it..

UPDATE:  Postpone departure till tomorrow.  Ken has an air-conditioner emergency today.

Pie to make cavities?  NO!
Reflection looking down from Prodigal.
Ken Reed and I are taking Prodigal off the mooring ball in Stuart and motoring down to Riviera Beach Fl, in the morning.  We will be about 2 miles offshore and anchoring near Peanut Island.  Tuesday Cousin Rick flies in and will await a weather window to sail over to the Bahamas to West End.  (Ken will get picked up by his wife Patty and return to Port St. Lucie)  Questions?

 Walmart $350.  *Yes that's Budweiser down there.  the local fishermen will trade lobster for it.
 How big is 3 months worth of stuff?
 Cans enough to last for months...  forever?
 Food that needs to be removed from it's CARDBOARD container and repacked.*  
I'll remove these, repackage and vacuum seal.
This last week has been busy with Provisioning.  I have made countless trips to the store to find everything.  It's now all on board, if not yet packed. yikes!
 repackage everything in portion sizes
Vacuum seal meats for freshness, then freeze.

I'll miss Stuart and the Sunset Bay Marina.  They have treated me like family.  
Thanks: Sam, Matt, Nicole, Dennis, Jason, Ed.  You all do a great job!   xoXO Skip




*Cardboard:  Cockroaches like cardboard.  In foreign climes, you do not want cardboard on your vessel.  Roaches eat it, lay eggs in it, build apartments... They eat paper, glue and then invade your boat and never leave.  I dont have roaches and prefer to never have them.  Ergo i need to remove all paper from Cans, and cardboard boxes and packaging containers.  - 'the cruising lexicon'