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annk · 07-03-2009, 08:03

With 2 of us on a 40' boat we carry sufficient food for 12 months. We have only a small refrigerator and no freezer. So I use a lot of canned and dried products. We grow reasonable amounts of fresh salad, enough usually for 2-3 meals a week. plus we grow fresh herbs. We fish and count on the results to provide fresh protein.

We carry sufficient propane for 1 year with heavy use for baking etc. 125 gallons of water with a small watermaker that can be powered exclusively by the wind generator. Sufficient diesel for 1 year to cool refrigerator and run minimum instrumentation. 1000 miles motoring capacity.

We have paraffin lights as well as all led navigation systems.

I sprout beans when we are offshore or in isolated anchorages. To date the longest we have been aboard without using any external services was 5 months...and we still had plenty of supplies left.

My view is that it is not so much food storage that you need to worry about but power generation. Our way of dealing with that is to run a low energy consumption boat and attempt to be as self sufficient as is reasonably possible at all times.

07-03-2009, 08:03	#6
annk Registered User Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 40	With 2 of us on a 40' boat we carry sufficient food for 12 months. We have only a small refrigerator and no freezer. So I use a lot of canned and dried products. We grow reasonable amounts of fresh salad, enough usually for 2-3 meals a week. plus we grow fresh herbs. We fish and count on the results to provide fresh protein. We carry sufficient propane for 1 year with heavy use for baking etc. 125 gallons of water with a small watermaker that can be powered exclusively by the wind generator. Sufficient diesel for 1 year to cool refrigerator and run minimum instrumentation. 1000 miles motoring capacity. We have paraffin lights as well as all led navigation systems. I sprout beans when we are offshore or in isolated anchorages. To date the longest we have been aboard without using any external services was 5 months...and we still had plenty of supplies left. My view is that it is not so much food storage that you need to worry about but power generation. Our way of dealing with that is to run a low energy consumption boat and attempt to be as self sufficient as is reasonably possible at all times.