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Old 27-07-2009, 16:14   #53
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When I provision for passage I try to take individual frozen pre cooked meals to last the expected passage. You want easy to cook meals for cooking on and eating on the tilt.

Down in the Caribbean where I cruised for several years provisioning was not a major problem because there were "reasonable" places to get stores in most of the larger islands. I was not off the beaten path that I had to be self sufficient for days or weeks on end.

You can always through together a pasta meal with olive oil and garlic, canned fish and so forth.

Forget provisioning in the out of the way places, in the Bahamas or the Caribbean, it ain't gonna happen. On the other hand, the French islands offer real french fare and provisions, boulangerie and so forth, so you win some and you lose some. And Guadeloupe has a hyper market too

You won't find Whole Foods, or Dean and Delucca, but you don't go sailing off to have that. That fare is for them megayachts.
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