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20 Tips For Provisioning For A Long Sailing Trip

March 16, 2019 11 Comments

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Provisioning a boat can seem like one of the most overwhelming jobs when preparing for a long passage. There’s quite a bit of pressure on the person stocking the boat with enough food, water, and necessary ancillary products (think toilet paper) to survive.

What foods are best to have? What veggies will last a month and what won’t? What can and can’t be frozen? How can you make food prep, while under passage, fast and easy – especially when the seas are sloppy? And how can you ensure that all the passengers are fed and watered properly?

After your first week-long or month long passage you’ll surely be much wiser as to what to do and what not to do. Wouldn’t it be invaluable, however, to learn from those that have already done it? Wouldn’t it be less stressful if you could make that first passage a massive success rather than a mediocre learning experience? With the following 20 tips, you’ll certainly have a greater chance of enjoying provisioning success. Read on. 

20 Tips For Provisioning For A Long Sailing Trip

Provisioning For A Long Sailing Passage

1. Start with the big picture and create a strategy

Like any project in life, it’s important to define the variables so you can plan accordingly. Here are some key details to collect:

  • First, you need to know how long the trip is estimated to take. 
  • Then, you’ll need to consider the number of people on the voyage. 
  • Another important consideration is guest allergies and food preferences – anyone allergic to nuts or selfish? Will you have all meat eaters? Or will many, if not all, be requiring plant-based meals? 
  • It’s important to understand who will be cooking or preparing food under passage – will all guests take turns or will there be one person (perhaps you?) in charge of the meals? 
  • Finally, it’s important to make your guests feel comfortable – long passages can be, let’s face it, LONG. That being said, a really yummy meal can seriously boot moral. Ask all your guests what their top five meals are or top five comfort meals. You don’t have to make them all and surely there will be overlap…but the information will give you an idea regarding provisioning and preparation.

Once you have the above information in place you can get to work making a meal plan. If the passage is estimated to take 20 days, you might want to make 10 meals to freeze, 10 kits (explained below) for lunch/dinner and have the ingredients for 10 more meals available. 

Depending on how much freezer and fridge space you have you’ll need to pick your meals carefully. If you have loads of freezer space, you can pre-cook many meals. If you don’t have much space, you’ll want to use that space strategically – what can you get from a can? What ingredients are shelf-stable? There are some excellent soups and stews that can be made predominantly from can goods. 


2. Collate Recipes to Batch Cook

It helps if you can borrow someone’s house or apartment to do this. Or, rent a property that has a kitchen and dedicate a full day to cooking. If you’re an all-electric boat like we are, it makes sense to head into a marina to plug into electrics as the oven will be used all day. 

When it comes to batch cooking you’ll cut up, say, carrots for four recipes and onions for, say, six recipes. Perhaps you’ll use ground beef in three recipes and chicken in four. You’re essentially prepping the veg, pulses, and meat to be cooked for several different meals. For example, you might make Chili Con Carne, Bolognese (meat sauces for pasta) and Shepherds Pie using all of the ground beef and many of the same vegetables. 

When I batch cook on the boat I use both my solar cooker pots (holds one full meal each), my slow cooker and my oven. When I’m organized it’s amazing how much I can cook in one day! To get some ideas about batch cooking, I created a Pinterest board full of loads of ideas: https://pin.it/h6ojnow5nc6mo4

3. Make Batching Kits

I define ‘batch cooking,’ as actually cooking the end meal or most of the end meal. For example, beef stew that’s fully cooked could be a batched meal. Same with Chili or the filling for a chicken pot pie. 

Kits, however, are not the final product. They are the raw ingredients to make the final product. For example, a chicken fajita kit will be a ziplock bag (or Tupperware) filled with sliced raw chicken, onions and peppers – to be frozen. On the kit, you can put instructions for other ingredients (ex. Fry ingredients with 2 tablespoons of fajita mix, fill soft taco shells with chicken mixture, shredded cheddar, and sour cream).

Kits can be made to be frozen or you can make kits out of shelf-stable ingredients like dehydrated vegetables, pasta and so forth. Again, I’ve created a board on Pinterest to give you a head start on ideas for kits: https://pin.it/mmq4lmnfm63hpm

Watch my video located at the very bottom of this post about preparing to sail to Bermuda to see examples of my batch cooking and kits.

Provisioning For A Long Sailing Passage

4. Create a Batch and Kit Swap

It’s been known that a few cruiser boats might make double or triple batches of certain dishes to trade with other boats. Before we crossed the Atlantic I met up with three boats doing a swap. One boat made three family sized chicken stews. Another boat made three family sized portions of Moroccan lentil taggine and the final boat made three family sized meatloaves. All three boats ended up with one of each. Make sure you, however, sample your meal swapers cooking before doing a swap!

5. Meal and Food Inventory & Location

It’s amazing how quickly things get ‘misplaced’ or lost on a boat. You know you have a can of cranberries, but where did you put it? When planning a long trip it’s a good idea to create a spreadsheet of all the food on board and where it’s located. We keep all our back-up canned goods, sauces, dressings and oils under our saloon small sofa. Then we have the canned goods that we use most frequently in a galley cupboard. I also make a list of every meal, kit and raw ingredient in the freezer in addition to a map for finding them!

Within the meal and kit section, I also include cooking instructions, extras to include when cooking or side dishes that would work well. For example, for my shepherd’s pie, I cook and freeze the ground beef and vegetable mixture. Next to the Shepherds Pie entry, I list the location (back left bottom of the freezer) and how to assemble the rest of the pie. So, I’ll have, boil six large potatoes and mash. Layer beef mixture on the bottom of a casserole dish, pour cream styled corn over the top and then layer the mashed potato mixture above the corn, cover in cheddar cheese, bake and 350 for 40 minutes. Aside from putting the instructions on the excel sheet, I also might write directions on the container holding the meal. 

Britcan Club Members and Patron Patrons have access to my Provisioning Dry Goods And Freezer Inventory: Atlantic Crossing Dry Goods Inventory, Atlantic Crossing Freezer Inventory and my Meal Provisions Groupings so they can start with my templates and customise to suit their needs.

6. Recipe Book Ideas

Some people like to cook while on passage as it eats up time. Others feel better up on deck getting fresh air and want to spend the least amount of time below decks as possible. Everyone is different.

Before crossing the Atlantic, I did a search on AllRecipes.com that included many of the main ingredients we were going to carry. I got ideas for lentils, cabbage, butternut squash, pasta dishes, rice dishes and so forth. By having recipes that cover the ingredients on board it provides ideas to whoever is doing the cooking for the day/night. AllRecipes.com is great because you can search based on a variety of different main ingredients. Once I had all the recipes, I printed them out and created a binder for guests to look through. 

Keep in mind there’s no Google a few hours after you leave land!

Provisioning For A Long Sailing Passage

On our daily jobs list there’s lunch and dinner duty listed

7. Create A Meal Preparation Schedule

On Britican we all take turns making lunch and dinner. For breakfast, we do a serve yourself system. But everyone gets a schedule for when they’re cooking lunch and when it’s their time to do dinner. I offer the option of heating up a meal, using a meal kit or making something from scratch. Our other rule is that whoever cooks, cleans up. This system seems to cause the person cooking to use far fewer pots, pans, and dishes!

8. Filling The Freezer

The system I use is Ziplock bags. First I label the ziplock as to what’s going in it, the date and any instructions. I fill a quart or gallon sized bag with my meal, kit or things like cooked rice, cut onions, and peppers, breaking down a bulk buy ground beef into 1lb/500g portions. etc. so that the ziplock sits flat. I get all the air out and then put the meals/kits/ingredients on a cookie sheet and freeze them flat. If I’m borrowing someone else’s kitchen (a rental) there’s usually an empty freezer to use. The key is to make everything you freeze flat so it’s easy to stack and store. When I’m on the boat, I lay everything on a cookie sheet and make sure the items below are set up on a way that it holds the cookie sheet flat. 

Boat freezers are notoriously slow when it comes to freezing things. If you can get items already frozen or freeze them in someone else freezer to transfer to yours, it increases the chances that items will freeze and stay frozen. 

9. Vacuum Pack

There are small vacuum pack systems that you can get on Amazon or in Walmart that work very well. When vacuum packing items they last much longer in the fridge and way longer in the freezer. I do have a vacuum pack system on board but considering I have so few vacuum pack bags I’ve been too afraid to use it. If I like it I’m not sure I can get the right bags anytime soon! 

10. Good Things To Freeze

Rice: I often make a batch of rice in my solar cooker. Two cups of dry rice equate to about eight 2-cup portions that fit great in a ziplock. The portions fill two people and you can do a wide variety of things with rice – egg fried rice, Mexican rice bowls, rice, and beans. All I do is take the rice out of the freezer, let it defrost a bit and then fry it in a pan with whatever I can find in the fridge and pantry. Or, it works as a great filler to put below chili, curry or any kind of sauce dish. By freezing the rice you cut down on the time it takes to boil it. 

Milk: Even now as we’re in the Caribbean when I find milk I’ll buy as many cartons as I can carry. On the island we’re on now, fresh milk comes in only on Fridays and if you don’t hit the supermarket at the right time, it’s sold out. What we do is we open all the milk and pour out a little bit as it expands when it freezes. We then freeze it. Whenever we need more milk, we pull it out, let it defrost and put it in the fridge. It definitely beats UHT or powder milk but you do have to have a large freezer. 

Butter & Cheese: These both freeze well. I once purchased a 10lb bag of shredded cheddar, put them in individual bags and it lasted an entire sailing season.

11. Thinks Not To Freeze

Potatoes: They don’t work well. It’s better just to prepare the potatoes as and when you need them. Also, why take up space in the freezer when potatoes will last weeks, if not months, on a shelf. 

Sour Cream: The consistency goes on sour cream. It gets all grainy. You can freeze sour cream if you’re going to cook with it but if using on top of a burrito or similar it’s just not nice.  

Water: Learn to go without ice! There are so many better things to freeze. 

Meat with bones: Space is an issue. Why fill up your freezer with something that’s not edible. Avoid items that don’t have bang for your bucks such as ribs, a whole chicken or chicken drums. If you want rib meat, make it ahead and take it off the bone. For chicken, roast the chicken and then take the meat off the bones to freeze it. 

12. Prepare to Catch and Cook Fish

You’ll need a bucket, very sharp filleting knife, a cutting board dedicated to fish preparation and the fixings to go with fish. Sushi is amazing! Make sure to stock the boat with soy sauce, wasabi, and pickled ginger. If you’re really going to go to town, get a sushi roll kit and get the seaweed wraps, rice, and rice vinegar. Also, consider stocking breadcrumbs (fried fish) fish sauces and recipes for the kind of fish you might catch. To learn how to fillet a fish, make sure to watch our video, How To Fillet A Mahi Mahi – the technique in the video will work for most fish. 

13. Rationed Snack Packs

The worst thing on a journey is to run out of your crackers, chocolate, and guilty pleasures halfway through the passage. What we did was create four big grocery bags filled with pretzels, potato chips, candy bars, trail mix, crackers and so forth. Once the bag was gone for the week, it was gone. Only on Monday could the next snack bag come out. By rationing our snacks we had enough to keep us going the whole way across the Atlantic. 

14. Private Stash

Make sure to grab something that you really love to stash away in your cabin. For me, I got a pack of eight Snickers candy bars. Every so often, I’d go down into my room and have a moment of sheer bliss by devouring one of my Snickers bars. When doing a crossing there’s really not much to do – there’s no lows and no highs…but having something you love can be a real treat!

Provisioning For A Long Sailing Passage

15. Buy Veggies That Will Last Long

What lasts long? Cabbage, carrots, parsnips, any root vegetable. Butternut squash, pumpkin, and apples are long lasting too. We did not wrap anything with aluminum as I’ve seen suggested. We had romaine lettuce that was still good after 18 days! Put all the long-lasting items in the back of your fridge or in a net. Make sure to strategically place all the fruit and veg that won’t last long in the front or in areas where people can get to them easily. Make sure to get recipes for the veggies that you choose.

16. Remove Packaging 

As soon as you get your items back to the boat, before getting on the boat, have a de-packaging party. Take all fruit and veg out of plastic wrappers and styrofoam plates. Remove the wrappers on cans (but mark on the top what’s in the cans!). Take cereal out of the cardboard box. Reduce everything to it’s smallest size. This will help with rubbish during the passage. Make sure to have three or four large drinking water bottles. Every day we cut up our non-biodegradable trash and put it in the jugs using a spoon to pack it down. After 18 days with seven people on board, we only had three full jugs of trash…and with the cap, there was no smell. 

17. Provisions That Can Be Stashed Anywhere That Are Valuable

  • Bake at home baguettes. They last for months and can be stashed in the bilge! When you bake them the smell makes everyone happy. 
  • Just-add-water options. Cup of soup, instant oatmeal, dehydrated ready meals are all great snacks for night passage grazers. 
  • Wraps. Tortilla wraps seem to last forever. Get a stash of these put them anywhere on the boat. 
  • Squash. Squash is a British thing but I’ve now seen it everywhere. It’s super concentrated juice. You add a tiny bit to water and have a nice juice drink. It takes up minimal space and goes a long way. 
  • Hydration Drops. With these, a little goes a very long way. It’s easy for guests to become dehydrated. Read my article entitled, Diarrhea, headaches, muscle cramps and more! to understand the signs and just how serious it is. Hydration drops can be added to some water and within seconds a person lacking in hydration will feel immediate benefits. We never go sailing without our drops! These are the one’s we use: Hydration Drops.


18. Extras That Are Good To Have (if you have space)

  • Soda Stream. If you have space and like soda water or soda pop these are a godsend. A soda stream is a contraption that adds carbonation to water. Once you have carbonated water you can flavor it with juice or special syrups. Drinking plain old water every day can get a bit dull. This is the Soda Stream we have.
  • Electric flat plate grill. Our grill allows you to make six to eight pancakes at one time. When making pancakes on the stovetop the most we can make is three. Having the plugin electric flat plate makes cooking for many much quicker. We also do our fish on the flat plate and it’s amazing how much we can cook at one time. This is similar to what we have – Electric Grill.
  • Slow cooker or solar cooker. For those that like to get meal preparation over early in the day and reap the rewards later during the evening a slow cooker or outdoor solar cooker is a great way to let food simmer slowly all day long. Slow cookers take very little energy and solar cookers take none! 
  • Bread maker. Nothing beats the smell of freshly made bread! 
  • Pre-made cookie mix or brownie mix. If moral gets low after a squall, just bake some cookies or brownies and there will be smiles all around 🙂

19. Random Tips

  • Bug eggs are already inside flour, pasta, and other grain packages. Yes, it’s gross but it’s a fact of boat life. When buying any kind of pasta or grain, buy it in a package that’s completely sealed rather than in a box. Your aim is to keep the bugs in one spot rather than let them wander… And don’t worry, you’ll know when a package has some live ones! I’ve stopped buying too much pasta as it will inevitably have bugs within a few weeks. I think it’s the high heat that makes them hatch. If you have room to freeze things, you can try freezing your flour, rice, and pasta… I prefer to use my freezer for meals and not flour/grains. Therefore I contain our bugs by buying small packages of flour, rice, and pasta. If one package gets bugs, it’s not a big deal. If I do buy pasta in a box, I immediately put it in a ziplock bag – again this will contain the bugs if they do hatch. Unfortunately, these little buggers can eat through plastic so you have to routinely inspect your stock. 
  • Tell guests to bring their own drinking cup with a closable lid. That way they can look after their own hydration needs with their own personal cup. We carry various bottles on board but a water bottle is quite personal and it’s good to get your guests to bring their own. 
  • After eating your meal, use your napkin or paper towel to wipe your plate clean. This small act can make doing the dishes so much easier!
  • Get oversized bowls for your meals. That way if they slosh around the contents won’t slosh out of the bowl and onto the deck. We purchased large plastic bowls where a serving fills half the bowl. When eating in turbulent seas there’s no need to worry that something my fly out. 
  • If you’re going to make bread practice how you’re going to do it before you leave. Boat ovens don’t work like house ovens. In other words, don’t wait until you’re under passage to learn how to make your own bread. Practice before you leave to make sure you can actually do it. If not, find an alternative solution. 
  • Fill the boat with as many paper towels as you can. Toilet paper is good to have too…but paper towels are always in high demand. 
  • Consider planning a half way party where everyone brings something special to share with each other during/after a meal – examples include pate, a special drink, chocolates, etc. Also, come up with contests – everyone guesses how many miles you’ll do in the next 24hours and keep track of who wins every day. You can also create prizes for the end of the journey – best-cooked meal? Funniest comment on the passage? We had a hat party day where we all had to create a hat made with our daughter’s arts and craft supplies. We also had a movie night where most of us all watched a movie together. 
  • Think of games to bring. Cards will blow away yet a game like Rummikub works great on the boat as the game uses tiles. Check that out on Amazon here: Rummikub

20. Last Important Tips

  • Even if you have a watermaker make sure to pack the boat with enough water for everyone on board. Watermakers notoriously pack up during long voyages. If you’re drinking bottled water during the journey, fill up the bottles with water from your water tanks and store. Keep making water as you normally would but know that you’ve replaced the bottled water with tank water that can be used if necessary. 
  • Journeys can unexpectedly take far longer than anticipated. Make sure you have loads of canned goods and extra food in the event you’re at sea for a while.
  • Consider storing canned meat to use. Think about worst case scenarios – what if the freezer fails? Will you have enough canned and refrigerated food to last the journey? What if your oven dies? Do you have alternative ways to cook food? Think about having a backup plan to every system on the boat and this includes cooking systems.

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More on Provisioning?

Watch our video about how we prepared for a short 5-day sail to Bermuda. The tips about provisioning start around the 5:20 minute mark.

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  1. Joe says

    March 22, 2019 at 4:47 am

    On a cat delivery from Cape Town to Greece, we stopped in Mindelo in Cape Verde Islands to re-stock our larder and the SAfrican skipper found that the local bank didnt accept his credit/debit cards. I had to bail him out with my UK cards. So the lesson here is make sure your bank cards are valid in the countries you are sailing to!

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    • Kim Brown says

      March 26, 2019 at 7:58 am

      Very good point. Even if your credit cards are valid you still can’t be sure they’ll work. Every few months for the first three years our cards got flagged by the fraud squad. We carry all sorts of credit cards, pre-paid cards and always a bit of cash 🙂 Thank you for your comment Joe 🙂 Big smiles, Kim

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  2. David Mills says

    January 9, 2020 at 3:34 am

    An amazing blog about Provisioning a boat. You have such a piece of great knowledge on this topic. Keep posting.

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    • Kim Brown says

      January 12, 2020 at 3:13 pm

      Thank you David 🙂 Kim

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  3. nicholas says

    July 22, 2020 at 12:36 pm

    can you link some examples of bake at home baguettes? I am not sure the ones I am finding have the shelf life you are saying they should have.

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  4. John Allis says

    May 9, 2021 at 7:08 pm

    Hi Kim

    Great information. I especially found your sections on veggies that last long and provisions you can stash anywhere helpful. We do not have any refrigeration on our 27’ cutter so we have to provision like H.W. Tilman. Do you have more suggestions for non-refrigerated meals?
    John Allis
    Machias Maine

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    • Kim Brown says

      May 17, 2021 at 7:13 am

      Hey John – Check out the Galley Cookbook. Here’s the link on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2S0RnK8 That cookbook will give you loads of ideas and suggestions including info for boats without refrigeration. Smiles, Kim

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  5. Laura and Chris says

    July 27, 2022 at 8:03 pm

    We are having our boat built in France and will be doing the ARC in 2023 with a sailing couple. I have the dubious task of creating the meal plan. Thank you for your tips and knowledge. We appreciate everything you are stating here. Especially the part about the bugs. I didn’t know this.

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    • Kim Brown says

      August 2, 2022 at 10:06 am

      Best wishes with your ARC Crossing Laura and Chris. It will be an event you’ll always remember. Enjoy the ride! Kim

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  6. PaddyB says

    October 9, 2022 at 7:14 am

    No mention of pressure cookers? High up the list of must haves imho, I do rice in a container inside the pressure cooker, little water, power or washing up. And a tiny bit hot water left to wash up. Chickpeas/beans etc cooked in minutes. So much to like 😎
    Anyone tried air drying fruit or veg? Those bananas go off all together in minutes the moment you turn your back 🤣

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    • Kim Brown says

      October 11, 2022 at 1:40 pm

      Pressure cookers scare me! That aside, all good comments. Thank you PaddyB 😉 Kim

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Having all your equipment listed and explained, in addition to how it works within a procedure, is a winning formula for dealing with boat safety issues.

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🌊The only 5-masted tall ship sunk because of it 🌊The only 5-masted tall ship sunk because of its speed

In 1902, the first-ever full-rigged five masters were built: the Preußen. It was the only 5-masted full-rigged ship ever built, until the Swedish sail cruise liner Royal Clipper was launched in 2000.

(To be clear: there were other five masters, but none of them was a tall ship.)

It sailed between Germany and Chile and was capable of transporting large amounts of goods at high speeds. Its hull length was 433' (132 m). She carried 47 sails (which is a lot).

In 1910, just 8 years after her launch, she sank into the English Channel due to damage from a collision with a small cross-channel steamer, 'Brighton'. The Brighton underestimated Preußens speed, at 16 knots.

Legend has it the skipper said: "a sailboat can't go that fast" - after which the two collided.

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Many new sailing cruisers make a huge mess out of Many new sailing cruisers make a huge mess out of mooring balls. The reason?!?! Many sailing schools don’t teach them! The best advice I can give you is to go out with an experienced sailing cruiser and practice tying onto them for a few hours. With just a bit of practice you’ll see how easy they are and will avoid the embarrassment that novice sailors feel. Make sure to watch our full video to see what other skills new sailing cruisers need to know. Check out SailingBritican on YouTube. #sailingexperience #sailingexperiences #learntosail
We're glad you enjoyed our videos! And thank you f We're glad you enjoyed our videos! And thank you for your kind words!🌊
 
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Am I too old for sailing? This is such a big quest Am I too old for sailing? This is such a big question we get asked. Of course you know the answer is NO. NO, NO, and NO! Check out our recent guests, Dan and Kitty, and find out what they're doing to make their sailing dreams a reality! 

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This is a small section of our ‘Can this 50+ cou This is a small section of our ‘Can this 50+ couple make their sailing dreams come true’ video just published on YouTube. Our latest guests got hit with a squall and it’s great to see that everyone was still smiling! But the deeper issue covered in this video is AM I TOO OLD FOR SAILING? I suppose you can guess our answer to that. Head over to YouTube and check out our SailingBritican channel to watch the full video. 
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⛵Our Sail Bermuda guide will demonstrate how we ⛵Our Sail Bermuda guide will demonstrate how we prepared our sailboat for a long journey, what the five-day passage was like, what life is like when you finally reach a destination, tours of St George’s and Hamilton in addition to special activities to do while in Bermuda. The real corker, however, was our trip back from Bermuda to North Carolina. It was bad. Very bad. Perhaps it’s worth you watching our video so you know just how bad it can get so you make sure to pick a good weather window!

🔵Get a feel for sailing to Bermuda before you go there yourself.

Within each of our Sailing Guide areas on the website, we provide information that will give you a feel for our passage to and throughout the area. The information includes our passage plan and route, a diary-style article about what we got up to and videos showcasing the surrounding area, and/or some sort of extra about how to be a bluewater cruiser.

🔵In this series, you’ll start off with learning about how to prepare the boat for a long passage and you’ll end with what it’s like to sail the Atlantic Ocean in heavy seas.

🔵Each article and post has been created so that you can get an idea as to the various areas, what some of the highlights are, whether we think they’re a hit or miss, and some of the difficulties we ran into. Our hope is that these sailing destination series will prepare you a bit more for not only the sailing cruiser life but show you want to expect before you arrive.

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🌊A question we get asked often is ‘How can I 🌊A question we get asked often is ‘How can I crew on Britican?’ 

Since 2015 we’ve taken volunteer crew for as short as a few weeks and as long as several months.

🔵Our volunteer crew learns all about the sailing lifestyle in return for offering their time, energy, and any special skills. We’ve had electricians, carpenters, plumbers, and even a birdcall expert! In some cases, our crew doesn’t have any specialty but is up for cleaning, cooking, boat jobs, and helping with our Britican Experience guests.

🔵Our latest crew member, Enrique, offered to swap his specialty skill of videography for an in-depth look at the life of a sailing cruiser. Watch the video now to find out more about him and what he’s interested in learning.

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“The gladdest moment in human life, I think, is “The gladdest moment in human life, I think, is a departure into unknown lands.” 

– Sir Richard Burton

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One of the most time consuming tasks as a sailing One of the most time consuming tasks as a sailing cruiser is grocery shopping. First we have to get to a store (walk or take a bus) and then we have to get all the food, beverages, supplies on to the dinghy, then on to the boat, and then put away. It’s an all day event! We do this ever two weeks. #sailinglife #sailing_feature #sailinglifestyle
Why do people book a sailing experience on Britica Why do people book a sailing experience on Britican? Watch the video and for more details find the link to our website in our bio. #sailingexperience #sailinexperiences #learntosail #sailingthecaribbean
🌊Sailboats can sail faster than the speed of th 🌊Sailboats can sail faster than the speed of the wind

Most boats can't go faster than the speed of the wind. But some racing yachts and most multihulls can. The reason is two-fold.

The reason it's possible is that boats generate their own wind, allowing them to 'surf their own wave' so to speak, increasing their speed.

Secondly, keelboats have a displacement hull: they push the water forward, which means they have to deal with resistance, and this resistance increases when the speed increases.

But this isn't a problem with the rise of multihulls. Multihulls use flat beds instead of a keel, which means the hulls are floating on top of the water’s surface. This allows them to go much faster since they don't have to deal with water resistance.

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⛵One of the biggest questions we get asked is, ‘How do I get sailing experience?’ Aside from joining a sailing club, offering to crew for boat owners, or chartering a vacation boat for a week, you can join Simon on Britican.

🌊Why Britican? With Simon, you can learn not just to sail but how to live the sailing lifestyle. The Britican Experience is not a sailing vacation. It’s a fully immersive live-like-a-sailing-cruiser opportunity.

🌊Time to Swap Your Lifestyle?

Swap your current lifestyle for a week and see if the sailing cruiser life is right for you. Steer the boat out of an anchorage or mooring, plan a passage using weather and navigational apps, raise and trim the sails, and helm in open ocean swells. Also, enjoy the perks of being a cruiser – breathtaking views, delicious food, amazing swimming/snorkeling, new friends at every bay, and the ultimate feeling of freedom!

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Get the full scoop! Watch the video now: https:// Get the full scoop! Watch the video now:

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🌊Fishy In order to encourage fish to be caught 🌊Fishy

In order to encourage fish to be caught, Scottish fishermen would begin their fishing session by throwing one of the crew members overboard and then hauling him back on 

🌊Bananas

No bananas on board. They were believed to be so unlucky they would cause the ship to be lost. Whole cargoes of bananas were especially frightening for sailors.

🌊No farewell
It was bad luck for seafaring men’s wives to call out to them or wave goodbye once they stepped out the door to leave for a voyage.

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Sailboat cleaning jobs! At least once a month I cl Sailboat cleaning jobs! At least once a month I clean the barnacles off the bottom of our boat. We have CooperCoat so our anti foul is not ablative. This allows me to scrape barnacles off. If you have ablative paint (usually blue in color) you don’t want to scrape the barnacles as it will also remove the paint. Follow us if you’re interested in living the sailing cruiser life! #sailing #sailingexperience #sailinglovers
Join me on Britican to learn how to become a saili Join me on Britican to learn how to become a sailing cruiser. Full details on SailingBritican.com #sailingexperience #sailinglife #sailingadventure
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