55] Provisioning Our Bluewater Sailboat For 1 Month | Sailing Life | Sailing Skua
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- Опубликовано: 30 июл 2024
- In "Provisioning Our Bluewater Boat For 1 Month", we head into a marina to stock up on water, fuel and food. We talk about the food we buy and how, as well as give you some tips for long-term conservation.
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You come across as so real, so authentic. I am beginning to prefer your channel to all the others!
😮 thank you! 🤗
I see a cheeky bottle of Laphroaig lurking in the cupboard - well played! A single malt out on deck as the sun sets sounds like heaven to me.
See the Laphroaig hiding away back there. Great wee dram! Slainte! 👍
I always stock up on dates. Full of energy and stacked with a whole range of vitamins.
Nice helpful video lots of great storage on Skua. Elena, you have gone up in my estimation as a biscuit dunker, it is a dying art but nice to see you keeping tradition alive. I always buy my biscuits based on their dunkability. Andy UK
Sadly most foreign biscuits aren't as dependable a dunker as, say, a ginger nut. They're usually risky dunkers similar to a rich tea.
@@SailingKittiwake Good job you didnt buy digestives they are suicidal. Geat video thanks.
John Brookes it is a dangerous business, worst is to find a packet of biscuits where each biscuit has a hidden crack, one dunk and it is gone then you have seconds to recover it before it goes to mush.
Andy UK - SY Corrival - Rival 32 don’t upset me before bed 😂
A good tip is to get in the habit of always tapping your dunker on the side of the mug, then any structural defects are revealed without turning your tea into biscuit soup.
Skua really is a perfect cruising vessel with lots of storage areas! I just love her lines and wide beam, giving her that grand style of old! You kids have a wedding coming up soon, right?
Yep this weekend :) he first guests have arrived and love Skua just like we do, she's certainly a lovely home and works really well as a liveaboard. Thanks for watching and commenting :)
Love the silliness at the end! Keep having fun!
We try 😊
Another great video, interesting to see how you provision for yourselves.
those tuna dishes sound really good.
Easy watching and very entertaining. ...interested to see your fishing techniques!
looking forward to the day i can stock up my boat and sail away..
Keep looking forward and taking steps to make it happen, however small!
We hope you can do that very soon 😊
Just seen the fb post! Congratulations to the two of you. Looks a lovely location, and the pair of you definitely spruced up beautifully. Many long years ahead, and best wishes for them. xx
Haha we did our best sprucing up! Thanks a lot :)
I love your boat. You did such a nice job restoring it.
Thanks so much :)
Great vid. Looks like Skua is fairly decent in the storage department, and with good tankage so yes, provisioning for longer makes sense :)
Thanks Steven, she's definitely a step up on storage :)
A wonderful video about a minimal stock. Go ahead with your style. It is so natural. Awesome natural.
Thank you :)
Nice episode--nice to see how you provision and what you prioritize. I definitely look forward to your videos. You seem to have such a nice relationship (reminds me a bit of my wife and I when we charter), and your philosophy is so similar to mine (ours) regarding safety, provisioning, etc.
Thanks so much, that's lovely to hear! We have our moments when we're both tired and at the end of our patience, but that's true of most people and most of the time we absolutely love being around each other, we're really lucky to enjoy each others company enough that we can live in a small space happily together.
Nice provision! Hope you guys have a good week with family friends for your Wedding!
Thanks a lot Janet! We're looking forward to it.
Good idea, this stock up video!
Happy greetingz, Wim
Thanks some good tips and provisioning insights
Skua is looking good ! Glad you're not here for our hurricane Dorian !
We're glad of that too, it looks horrendous! Hope you and your boat are tucked up safe away from it.
hahaha finally you two dont look so cold anymore :D woah shopping grocery for one month seems challenging. Good tip with the eggs, didn't know that
Plenty more cold passages coming up haha! Sorry! The Med doesn't warm up until about June, offshore :)
Awesome guys ! 👍🦘
Cheers Paul!
@2:00 love the bed-heads lol.
Beatiful boat. I love your boat.
@10:40 during last boom/bubble of 2006, everybody had "free" delivery. When the "great recession" hit, all of that went away. I hope history doesn't repeat itself.
Other sailors I follow, make their own bread...food for thought.
Great vlog! Showed me (et al) possibilites.
FYI: Delos bought a stil to make cheap booze (I think they drink more than you though lol).
that thumb nail looks like a kid on Halloween night sorting through her treats ...I just love how English the two of you are;you've done wonders for refining the American language and probably don't even know it...lol
Excellent restocking video. Hope you will someday talk about comparing your experience with cat vs monohull. Best wishes to both of you.
Hi Brian. Thanks so much for watching and commenting - yep we've been meaning to talk about that for a while, although Kittiwake was such a unique Catamaran I'm not sure we're the best placed to
comment but we can definitely give our perspective :)
Thanks for sharing
I would suggest getting a few sprouting jars and stock up on beans, lentils and other seeds. They keep almost forever and you’ll always have fresh veggies.
I used to sprout every week during a particularly money-tight couple of months last year but we weren’t huge fans of the taste 🤭
Great video on provisions
Cheers Brad!
8 beers for a month? Hahaha you guys are so pure!
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Great informative vid guys! (luv ya work!). Although....I have mentioned before about starting your engine with a heap of revs! (but hey, it is your engine....) ;)
Cheers.
Hahah! This video is from April, so it’ll take a while for you to see we took a hint 😁
@@SailingKittiwake Of cause! I hadn't really thought that through........ any engine related issues. feel free to ask! (although you guys really seem to do a lot of research yourselves!)
next time add bay leaves, lime sprinkle roesemary in the storage areas to keep the bugs aways.
We used to have a very large garden to grow vegetables, to make the root vegetables last through the winter and spring we would clean them then layer them in boxes of very dry sand or sawdust not letting them touch and the onions were hung up.
Nice, we've heard that individually wrapping potatoes in sheets of kitchen paper helps keep them for a long time, definitely something we'll try.
My job as a kid when grandad dug up the vegetables I had to wash them then then spread them out on the paths to dry out then they would go into wooden boxes with vent holes in the top.
👍👍👍Ant & Cid.
I love our earnest you both are! For washing, consider a toilet plunger and a five gallon bucket and good pegs for drying on the running rigging and lifelines. It works very well and saves tons of money. Once you get used to the bucket it is easier and more convenient than carting dirty clothes to the laundromat.
Thanks a lot Shane. So you just plunge the clothes/water for a bit and then rinse? Interesting.
@@SailingKittiwake Yes, put the clothes in a five gallon bucket, some fresh water and a little laundry powder. Plunge as you sit in the cockpit contemplating life. Drain water, rinse with fresh water. Congratulate yourself for saving ten bucks. Worked very well for my wife, son and I during our two cruises.
Shane Dennis that’s great! Thank you.
We’re hoping to get a cheap 12v watermaker this winter, so that would make this method possible 👍 We try to conserve as much fresh water as possible at the moment because if you don’t buy diesel, they charge you for the water and we need to get water more often than laundry 😁
Micro greens are so easy to sprout while under way and simple to replenish there are a lot of varieties also...something to think about.
We used to sprout lentils but we didn’t enjoy the bitter flavour very much. When we go to more remote cruising grounds, we’ll try to get back into it 😊
Hello.... I enjoy your venture, vicariously...... On the matter of fresh veggies. Since you have lots of storage. Perhaps you can freeze veggies such as brocolli, kale, bell peppers, etc. Wash, dry thoroughly, cube, place in ziplock bag, and with a straw, draw a vacuum..... I do this regularly. Can offer more info if interested.
Again, I enjoy your journey. Found the vids on rehab very well done and fascinating. Thanks much.
jerry in Chiang Mai
Thanks Jerry! We don’t have a freezer - too power thirsty 😊
Great video you two! Though I am absolutely famished now watching you go through all that food. It's almost one in the morning here and I'm thinking of sliding out of bed - Ninja style, so as not to wake my girlfriend - and raid the fridge. That homemade pizza shot pushed me over the edge. No way am I going to sleep now, my stomach's doing backflips!
Oh and very quick quip Ryan when Elena said 'So pretty!' Made me laugh anyway 🤭. Take care you two.
Haha sounds like someone needs to order a pizza... not sure how the GF wouldn't find out about it though. Glad you noticed Ryan's quip :)
@@SailingKittiwake No way would I sneak a Pizza without her knowing. 😋 - she has the snout of a bloodhound!
Haha! Elena can sniff my breath and tell what I ate!
18:19 I know the feeling, i usually get a lot of nuts too. :)
Sailed there from Mallorca in a Bali 4.1 cat, we provisioned on the mainland though. Thought it would be cheaper and the harbours are so undeep there.
That was a nice bottle of Laphroaig lurking in the back of the cupboard? You can invite me for sundowners anytime you like 😉
Haha! It’s Ryan’s precious - he gets a bottle for his bday every year, so it’s not on offer for sundowners 😁 too hot for whisky anyway 😊
Very interesting thanks!
Q: Do you wash all your fresh veges & remove all paper labels from everything stored in the bilge lockers, as I see others doing, to avoid bug infestations on the boat? Didn't hear you mention that. Also, in the tropics many sailors won't even bring any cardboard boxes on board as they've found that they sometimes carry roach eggs inside them. (Ref: Emily & Clark's Adventures)
Hi, Europe doesn't really have those issues, so we don't - washing fruit and veg shorten their lives. When we go to the tropics we'll have to do that, but for now things are simple.
Sailing Kittiwake Gotcha thanks!
I'd always wondered if fruit and veg., or just veg, might keep for a long time soaking in a salt water tub with a bit of colloidal silver. Would be good it it did.
We suspect the skins would come off, but who knows. Try it out and let us know :D
Sailing Kittiwake I'll def. let you know if I get to try.
Thanks for your sailing and boat info videos (yes this comment is written one year after they first uploaded and you're on land now, I know) But my question is about Elena. I hear from your accent and vocabulary (of certain specific words) that sound like genuine native British English to me, but apparently you're from Italy originally ??????
10€, ~$12 for a laundry load??? And that's with your own detergent. ☹ That's like stadium pricing on beer!
BTW thanks for the tip about flipping eggs! I tend to not use them immediately.
So looking forward to a mobile life again, whether on wheels or under sails.
I know! But at least we didn't have to hump it into town (though the local laundrette is actually even more expensive). That's a killer when it's hot!
@@SailingKittiwake I'm from the desert. 120F is "hot." When the humidity = 8% it's a totally different thing!
You guys look like you are really settling into that boat. Are there any ocean crossings planned?
Cheers Steve! We'd like to cross the Atlantic but we're not sure if we can make it on time this season - we had some big hold ups which you'll see in our future videos :)
@@SailingKittiwake Great, looking forward to your future videos.
You are an amazing woman 👩,
Just a one-off comment. You two seem so serious lately, it looks like working while being liveaboards. I give it a couple of more tries after last 6 months following but I seriously hope you start "enjoying" the trip more. I know that's my perspective and I could be dead wrong but at least the laugh at the end was a good starter for me 😎
That's the reality of it... There are always jobs to be done, water to be topped up (as I sit here in the rain trying to motivate myself to fill up my own tank LOL), laundry to be done, food shopping and general re-stocking. Just like life on land but with a few added hassles. But when you push off on a passage to somewhere nice, the rewards can be great as well.
@@stevenpaul9259 I understand, I just miss the simple sunsets for example. I don't see much fun to be blunt. Sorry
Hi @tip001 :) There were at least 2 sunsets in this episode and more sunsets in the last 2 episodes of the fun crossing ;) We probably overdo sunsets to be honest, haha!
As @Steven Paul said, cruising is just like normal life - there's ups and downs and hassles. We try to show them all. We don't want to put on an act for the camera - that's not what our channel is about.
This spring was particularly tough with the heavy winds and crossed swells. Any sailing channel that shows being excited and having fun in every single episode, is just hiding the reality of it all. How many people do you know, in your day-to-day life, who are always happy and excited, every day? Cruising doesn't change that - there's a new challenge every day, way more than on land.
That said, the next episode should show some of what you're missing ;)
thanks. i see you don't take the labels off your cans or re-package your dry goods. not worried about roaches etc?
iain lyall they will get worried when they see they have been taken over. It’s a hassle sure, but dealing with a roach infestation, very costly and time consuming
Never had a problem in the Med, if we get to the Caribbean we'll be more worried.
@@SailingKittiwake thought so. thanks.
What is that white circle thing in the cabin with white pendant shaped objects hanging in a kind of pattern from it?
Smoth ⛵
Thanks a lot, William!
I enjoy your videos....sailing away from the comfort of home. I saw another cruising video. They recommended removing packaging and labels as paper on them can attract cockroaches! Hope they don't bother you!! Are you still sailing now, july 2020?
Hi, yes we're still sailing, but in the Caribbean. We're releasing videos of our Atlantic crossing right now :) Yes, the paper packaging is a problem in the tropics. In Europe, we didn't have a problem in three years of cruising :)
If you can get someone to put your flour, noodles, and the such into their freezer it will kill
all the bug larve and the products willl last for ages
Yes! We heard that before, but we don't have the network for it :D Haha!
@@SailingKittiwake I've heard a microwave can do the same job, if you have the space you could keep a small microwave aboard and use it on your flower, uncooked rice etc when you have shore power. I guess it'll depend how often you have shore power when you provision.
What sort of delay is there with your videos... i.e. when was this filmed? Cheers ps. your boat looks great against that pontoon.
Cheers! This was mid April 😊
@@SailingKittiwake ok thanks was wondering about the hats and jackets :)
Is that a bottle of laphroaig lurking in the back of that locker?
Yep, Ryan’s yearly birthday present 👍
I would eat that in just 10 days I have good appetite lol what boat you have and how much money you need a month ?
Haha! It’s a Tayana 37 and we spend about £500-700 x month.
I think I should start a floating McDonald's and Pizza Hut in the med. Think they have a pizza boat in the Caribbean.
Do it! And follow us around please :)
@michael bundy I saw one floating around Ibiza an Nikki Beach. Go for it healthy competition is always good :)
Skua
One could preserve eggs without fridge by smearing a layer of vasaline
In Europe, eggs don’t go in the fridge. We never refrigerate them 😊
Why dont you take of paper & glue from your cans to stop bugs?
Because it’s not a problem here in Europe 😊
:)
Am I the only person who doesn’t eat a lot of fresh fruit and veg?
What do you eat? We’d love to find more exciting long life food. If we can, as a habit, we have 1/2 veg with each meal and a fruit at the end.
going for 30, provision for sixty
If you’re crossing an ocean or going to super remote areas, yes 😊
boys eat red meat or fish your skin begs you!🙋