How to PROVISION for an Ocean Crossing! | Sailing Wisdom: Season 3, Ep 1

[@richardbohlingsr3490]

Making and saving checklists are a great idea. That way when it becomes time to re stock the larder, you just pull the lists out and head to the store. You can change things on the lists as you find out what you use and what is not consumed. Looks like lots of fun. Have a good time putting it all away. Happy sailing.

[@RiggingDoctor]

It’s funny how relaxed we have become about provisioning. It comes with practice!

[@bigwes789]

When you vacuum seal ground meat, to save space flatten out the meat after you seal it and you can store the meat kinda like books on a shelf but in your freezer!

[@RiggingDoctor]

Nice suggestion!

[@TheCornucopiaProject-bd5jk]

I have watched several of these provisioning videos now and find they all lack detail. Hope you had a fun passage!

[@RiggingDoctor]

It depends on what you like to eat. The important thing is to buy what you want to eat for the next month and make sure it will not rot on you before you get to eat it.

[@jackpatteeuw9244]

A couple of recommendations for your tool bag. DeoxIT D100 - an electronic contact cleaner; get the small bottle with the dropper Fluid Film - a much better lubricant and anti-corrosion spray than WD-40; use on electrical contacts Silicon spray - great on rubber Lanolin grease - general lubrication and anti-corrosion; use on large (nut and bolt) electrical connections

[@siobhansheehan1817]

I found that a kindle is the way to go for reading material. I can stock up on as many books as I want without taking up space or worrying about damp pages. They recharge same as a phone.

[@RiggingDoctor]

Yeah a kindle definitely would have been more economical, but I wouldn't feel as comfortable having it out where waves could destroy it. The more technology on an ocean crossing, the more chances of corrosion and failure.

[@stian222]

You can seal it in a heavy duty clear freezer bag or buy a waterproof pouch that is made just for that kind of thing.

[@Gingerru4u]

I will be getting a boat in the future. I have been watching a lot of videos. One thing that I have not seen for provisioning is a food dehydrator. I think that would be a great tool to have for saving some of the fruits and veggies as well as making your own jerky for those times when cooking would not be practical.

[@RiggingDoctor]

I have no experience with a dehydrator, but I do love jerky!

[@markmahan6768]

How exciting that you're setting off to cross the Atlantic! I'm so looking forward to the resulting videos. Fair winds and following seas to you!

[@willarddevoe5893]

I use small amounts of butter with cereal because milk is a nightmare to store. A spare camping fridge is a good backup.

[@RiggingDoctor]

I’m confused where the butter goes in the cereal. Have you tried UHT milk? It doesn’t need refrigeration.

[@waynedoeblin6801]

Really looking forward to see what you think of the Atlantic,looks like you are plenty ready😊

[@bja2024]

Mason jars? Interesting. I would have thought your vacuum sealer to be the better bet given the weight and displacement trade off. I understand there is a plastic issue, but you can re-use non-meat packaging in gradually decreasing sizes for the cost of the clipped sealed top. Plus empties store flat, do not rattle and wont’t break when you drop them.

[@RiggingDoctor]

Thankfully, we have yet to break any of the 144 (1 gross) jars we carry. The vacuum sealer needs 110 vAC to run, which would require us to crank on the generator each time we wanted to reseal something. The jars add weight, but we have them scattered throughout the boat and low in the hull. They make up a small part of the extra ton we took on in preparation to go cruising.

[@jackpatteeuw9244]

I use heavy duty 6 mil zipper lock bags. They store flat and are reusable. The only problem is you have to buy them online in large quantities so you need to figure out what is the best size before buying 500 of them !

[@BitcoinNewsTodayLive]

Time for an inverter??? :-)

[@kimtaylor6149]

Great sailing and I will keep you in mind for your crossing so cool you two have come so far and learned so much!!! Thanks so much for your inspiration and hope you’re sailing will create a great experience!

[@barrythompson8858]

I was wondering if a light coating of dielectric grease on the charging cables would prevent corrosion on the cable along with protecting the phone. Also the food safe lubricant used for the “O” rings in soft serve machines is perfect to lightly coat knives and any other kitchen equipment to prevent rust.

[@AM-cg9yw]

Nice! Pleasant, entertaining. Informative.

[@BitcoinNewsTodayLive]

Great episode guys! I have a foodsaver but hadn't considered using it to repackage meat, great tip! With all those mason jars aboard do you have a canning pressure cooker to preserve meat and fish you catch? The DrakeParagon sailing channel recently had a great episode on canning salmon! Also, re book buying, think about doing some digital provisioning before your next crossing. The gutenberg.org download gives you 58,000 free ebooks with all the out of copyright classics including A room with a view btw :-) P.S. Kivix allows you to keep a copy of the medipedia offline or the whole wikipedia if you like! Don't forget music and movies too :-) For a good storage solution hardware wise, I'd mate a cheap low power fanless 12v router like the Linksys WRT AS1200 with a 4Tb external harddrive via the USB 3 port on the router for this express purpose. The whole setup can be done for 1/4th the cost of an iPhone :-D Keep up the good work, just subscribed and thumbed up. Paul.

[@RiggingDoctor]

Thanks for the info! We tried our hand at canning and made some pickles. They were awful! Then we gave up on canning ourselves, but we do have a bunch of canned meats in the boat (store bought)

[@BobGubbins]

I'm sure I won't be the only one to comment but the hose that was rubbing on the shaft that you put a tin can on... Much easier to move/secure the hose out of the way. I'm also sure you are aware but tin and saltwater will result in rust!!! keep up the great job guys good luck fair winds and following seas Bob

[@BitcoinNewsTodayLive]

Yeh, at least spray a couple of quick coats of galvanizing spray paint before installing until you work out something more permanent. It's magic stuff, have sprayed old anchors that lost their galvanizing in places and had started to rust.

[@bradlarden]

Have a great trip guys.

[@SamuelKTennis]

I can not believe you went to Fort Worth(less) or whatever and did not stop by Miami / Coconut Grove / Dinner Key on one pass ;-( Not that I am there any more (Florida City, even southerer) but most all of my sailing and work boating has been either from Key Biscayne (across the bay) or Coconut Grove / Dinner Key. I hafta stay loyal to my roots, ya know. One should always bring your own chair when going out to eat! So many people forget that. I wonder if you could put veggies and spices and stuff in the bag with the meat, bag up most of the meal together? Might be more work than it is worth, may spoil the taste, just a thought as I watched...

[@RiggingDoctor]

I enjoy your thoughts and comments!

[@SamuelKTennis]

@@RiggingDoctor I try to remain upbeat and entertaining and occasionally educational. I cannot believe you actually take the time to respond to all my responses! Maybe I should save you time and shut up!

[@claasriese1036]

What do you think about canning food for provisioning?

[@RiggingDoctor]

Yes, if you are good at canning. We gave it a try before we left with something simple like pickles, and none of them tasted good. We carry cans of food since we can’t make them ourselves since they are a great way to have food without electricity or refrigeration.

[@charles.neuman18]

How did you like Fabric of the Cosmos? I think that's on my list. I read Elegant Universe. I don't remember enough details to be able to "review" it, but I have a positive memory. I'm sure if I paged through it, I'd recall more.

[@RiggingDoctor]

It was such a good book! It made me feel that “string theory” will eventually win out in the end, not because the current definition of string theory is correct, but because it keeps changing its definition of what it is. It was a book that really got me thinking and thinking hard!

[@fudogwhisperer3590]

If you get the spark, get the controller with it, don't rely on the app to fly it.

[@RiggingDoctor]

We got the controller :)

[@NAVIGATOR600]

WISHING YOU A SAFE AND PLEASANT PASSAGE AND A HAPPY RETURN BON VOYAGE !

[@graeme-sailingskeptic]

I have a spark it's quite good.

[@BlindmanValley]

I stopped buying big brand items a long time ago. A few clicks on Alibaba.com and you can find comparable items like drones for much much less cost just look for items with a minimum amount of 1 and there are lots. Keep up the great vids.

[@andyyoon7853]

Yeah~ DJI spark? I'm sure you will have even more awesome footage I'm so excited!

[@bleedinggumsroberts3579]

Hay im wondering about those can foods and your love of beaching the boat. The cans got wet right. What if you dipped each can in hot wax to seal them and prevent rust? I use hot candle wax to seal the lids on paint jars that i wont use for long periods of time.

[@RiggingDoctor]

Good tip, but thankfully the canned food hasn’t rusted. The cans outside are almost all used up so they can be discarded before the rust gets bad

[@bleedinggumsroberts3579]

Rigging Doctor cool. You guys are inspirational.

[@kirenireves]

Do you make rough meal plans (and ingredient lists) for breakfast, lunches, and dinners? Do you count up how many of each particular recipe you will cook to ensure you get enough of something? If not, how do you create the shopping list without meal plans or the count? Just curious how this is done when you can't just run to the store for something you forgot. I look forward to seeing the crossing!

[@RiggingDoctor]

Hello! We don’t actually make rough meal plans since it’s impossible to know what the seastate will be for cooking each day. We just get what seems to be enough and then make sure we have plenty extra cans of food Incase the fridge dies.

[@bobhamilton298]

I'm surprised you didn't get a Brian Cox Cosmos book. You look like brothers!

[@NAVIGATOR600]

FOR AUTHORS YOU WILL ENJOY 1) ANYTHING BY JOSEPH CONRAD 2) ANYTHING BY JAN DE HARTOG CURIOUS IF YOU HAVE A RADAR REFLECTOR YOU CAN PUT UP IN THE RIGGING SO THAT LARGER VESSELS WONT GET TOO CLOSE AND HOPEFULLY GIVE YOU SOME SEA ROOM ALSO YOUR WATCH KEEPING AND THE NORMAL DAY'S WORK WILL GIVE YOU LITTLE TIME FOR READING FROM MY EXPERIENCE BUT YMMV BE WELL STAY SAFE

[@RiggingDoctor]

Thanks for the suggestions. We didn’t have a radar reflector up because a friend on a tug boat said they always pick up the spars. Commercial (super powerful) radar picks us up but private yachts have trouble displaying us, so we will add some reflectors soon.

[@NAVIGATOR600]

YOU MIGHT TAKE A COUPLE OF MYLAR "RESCUE" BLANKETS CRUMPLE THE OPEN BLANKETS UP IN A NET BAG RUN IT UP TO A SPREADER HALYARD IT WILL SUFFICE AS A GOOD IMPROVISED RADAR REFLECTOR

[@NAVIGATOR600]

YOU MIGHT TAKE A COUPLE OF OPEN MYLAR "RESCUE BLANKETS CRUMPLE THEM UP AND STUFF THEM INTO A MESH NET DITTY BAG THEN RUN IT UP A SPREADER HALYARD YOU THEN HAVE A GOOD IMPROVISED RADAR REFLECTOR THAT WEIGHS NEXT TO NOTHING AND IS NOT EXPENSIVE YOU CAN ALSO GRAB A ROLL OF ALUMINIUM FOIL FROM THE GALLEY AND DO THE SAME THING BE SURE TO SECURE THE DITTY BAG CLOSED AND SECURE BOTH TOP AND BOTTOM OF THE BAG TO THE HALYARD "RADAR WORKS AND REDUCES RISKS IF YOU PLOT ALL TARGETS THAT EXIST" WHEN THEY SEE YOUR ENHANCED BLIP THEY WILL IN ALL LIKELIHOOD GIVE YOU SEA ROOM ONE NEEDS AT NIGHT OR IN DIRTY WEATHER SAFE AND HAPPY VOYAGES !!!!!

[@cristinabernal7770]

How do you store your eggs?

[@RiggingDoctor]

A variety of ways. We normally keep them in the fridge in their original cartons, but if we buy them in a country that doesn’t have egg cartons (Suriname and Cape Verde for example) we would put them in a plastic egg case and put that in the fridge. We turn them often and they tend to keep for about a month while out at sea.

[@ronbailey257]

I've heard others cruisers mention how quickly vegetables go bad are there any who use canning as a means to preserve them longer?

[@RiggingDoctor]

They just don’t taste the same. We carry canned veggies but we only eat them when we are craving something that we ran out of long ago

[@charlotteh5783]

Do ya'll do any dehydratated veggies or meats

[@RiggingDoctor]

We don’t make them but we love eating them!!

[@s.d.s.4674]

What was the total cost of everything? How do you pay for it? What size boat? Mahalo

[@RiggingDoctor]

I don’t remember the cost…maybe $300. We’re a 45 foot boat. We paid for it with a credit card

[@papocintron6420]

Hi, you guays have a great and safe trip. Great choice of a drone hope you got the one with the remote control and a couple of extra batteries. I'll be watching out for your future videos. Bon voyage 🇵🇷

[@jimnickles2347]

Yay! Maddie's gone back Red! Lovely, as Usual. You should make up some Hardtack, and some Jerky, too. Trail Mix? The Count of Monte Cristo! Yes! Dumas and Sir Walter Scott the BEST of the old Classic Authors. Two Years Before the Mast is pretty good, too, it'll make you REALLY appreciate your MODERN Yacht, lol. Spare plugs for dinghy engine? Extra batteries for VHF and electronics that will use them. Flashlight bulbs and lenses? Get a copy of the International Morse Code and paste it by the compass binnacle, so you can send/receive blinker messages in an emergency, and a copy in your Emergency Dry bag, so you can signal with a mirror. An Estwing Camper's axe, spare block and tackle, drawknife and spokeshave? Spare prescription glasses/contact lenses? A couple gallons of SPF 100 Sunscreen,lol. Machete? And some of that temporary tooth filling, if Herb don't have it in his Pack. You never know when you'll catch a pulley or snaplatch in the teeth, or slip and fall face-first into a stanchion or something. Or get drug into a Free-For-All in some waterfront dive,lol...

[@svvictory4379]

Good luck

[@stewtube1240]

What model sailboat are you sailing and at what time of year are you crossing the Atlantic ? Thank you !

[@RiggingDoctor]

1968 Morgan 45 Crossing happened around mid-June to early August.

[@thedrummersclub3667]

Any Pirates?

[@RiggingDoctor]

None in 3 years

[@Josef_R]

I'm not understanding why your bilge pump is not automatic and you have to hear the prop shaft spinning in it to know your boat is half full of water.

[@RiggingDoctor]

It’s ironically a safety thing. Imagine that you have a leak and the bulge pump empties it all the time. Each time you do a bilge check, the water level will be low. This means you won’t realize that there is a leak. If the pump fails, the bilge would fill and you would not expect it. I heard it between checks by chance. It almost made it a “very bad day”!

[@Josef_R]

If the bilge pump is constantly running, you will hear it. If you can't hear it, you need an alarm on it. I'd rather have it doing it's job than my boat filling with water til the floorboards float off.

[@Milbssailing]

If you sailed back to the states b/c provisioning in the Bahamas was so expensive...why are you choosing to shop at We$t Marine? Just curious.

[@RiggingDoctor]

I get a discount at West Marine.

[@dfgjhdj]

doesn't anyone ever provision by visiting costco, or bjs, or sam's club?

[@RiggingDoctor]

We did before we left Baltimore (my sister has a Costco membership) but I don’t have a membership card and therefore couldn’t get in in Florida. Also, this Publix was close to the anchorage. The best plan is to go somewhere you can get a good value for the food and stock up!

[@fabio1fabio1]

@@RiggingDoctor go to Costco even without a card and ask any customer in line to pay for you at the cashiers with his card... most of them will help you happily since many hold a Gold Card and get a percentage as a refund of all they spend in a year.. they will get some dollars back because of helping you and you will save a lot of money

[@TheBowen747]

@@RiggingDoctor caint beat walmart for best prices, i know i hate saying that but iyems are as much as twice as high at publux then walmart. live in florida all over the state since 2006.. also we have fruit and veggies small markets set up here and there thats a great cheap way to get veggies fresh too.. go to publux for their hand made subs,, and thats it man..lol

[@tammyadams4668]

How long did the fresh produce, meat and eggs last you during the crossing? Do you wish you bought more or less fresh produce, meat and eggs?

[@RiggingDoctor]

I think we had the right amount. We still had meat and eggs when we made landfall in the Azores.

[@RiggingDoctor]

The produce lasted about a week

[@pavelavietor1]

hello stop in Cadiz ,Malaga, Barcelona... saludos,

[@tiborkiss9186]

GEys, I love so don`t put me wrong... buying Apple products before you come to Europ - which is flooded with Samsung, Huawe, Asus and other products... well, maybe not the best thing to do. You will not find an Apple service locally for sure, if you need a part to your drone, you need to wait until the part arrives - from the US. When you plan to travel the World - try to get things with local service possibility.:)

[@RiggingDoctor]

The thing is, the Spark isn't an Apple product! Not sure why it was in the Apple Store, but we were grateful to find it! You have a good point though.

[@johnskyleir]

i was wondering when you guys shave your thick reddish pubes that does cause any issuue in drainage ???? or shaving and taking shower on deck ?

[@RiggingDoctor]

Seriously?

[@br5498]

Maddie you outfits looked much better, you're such a pretty lady, but PJ'S are a bad look. .. I didn't see any SPAM ! That a must have . .... hahaha

[@RiggingDoctor]

SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM and more SPAM! We had so much Spam when we left the states that we still have two cases of it (after making the crossing)

[@BitcoinNewsTodayLive]

I've never once read comments about male sailors dress code which is often less than ideal, why do you feel female sailors need to pander to the male gaze? I'm sure Maddie sometimes puts as much thought into her clothes as anyone else when working hard on the boat,i.e. what is comfortable. If you want misogynistic pretty ladies on boats videos, may I suggest the Why don't you check out the powerboat and mega yacht channels.

[@Garryck-1]

@@BitcoinNewsTodayLive - Then you've missed reading quite a few comments in earlier episodes about Herby's grooming and dress choices. Pay more attention, perhaps?

[@anthonystubblefield4987]

No motor for your dingy?????????

[@RiggingDoctor]

We only use it if we are going far but if we can row to shore, then we don’t have to worry about having the outboard stolen

[@RiggingDoctor]

We only use it if we are going far but if we can row to shore, then we don’t have to worry about having the outboard stolen

[@anthonystubblefield4987]

That's terrible you have to worry about that stuff but that's the game of life!!!

[@RiggingDoctor]

Padlocks help alleviate concern and we have never had ours stolen, but we have been at the dinghy dock a few times when someone else is freaking out because they just had their motor stolen. It’s a reminder that we don’t live in a perfect world.

[@pateallan7764]

Only 2 packs of dental floss? Come on Herbie, step it up a little......ha ha

[@RiggingDoctor]

You don’t need floss if you “brush like a dentist”

[@melee401]

Please tell me you didn't forget to stock up on toilet paper?

[@RiggingDoctor]

Hahaha we had a lotttt

[@BitcoinNewsTodayLive]

Lol! I recently managed to squeeze 66 Scott 1000 roll holding tank safe toilet paper rolls into a tote and seal it up for long term storage. They claim one roll with supply the average household 1 week so it should last the boat more than a year :-D

[@fudogwhisperer3590]

SV Ruby Rose just crossed the Atlantic by way of Bermuda and the Azores.

[@RiggingDoctor]

Maybe we will bump into them in the Mediterranean!

[@Coinz8]

Is your hair....natural?

[@RiggingDoctor]

Nope haha

[@jensjansson1993]

@@RiggingDoctor plastic?!? 😮

[@johnnyandersson5622]

Buy a drone in Apple store? They have mediocre computers, tablets and smartphones that you maybe could buy, but drones? :)

[@RiggingDoctor]

I did not except it either! We had been doing our research on drones after seeing how awesome they were first hand when we were buddy boating with Jessica and Ryan. We had decided on the DJI Spark, and then there it was for the same price as on Amazon!