One of the biggest problems on any sailboat is fridge space. There are a few boats out there that were built for liveaboards and have ample space, but many of the cruising community are living on former charter boats. Charter boats were designed for week long trips and lots of eating out…not for cheap cruisers…
One of our biggest worries sailing off into the sunset was how to get enough milk for our kids. We went through a weekly delivery of 3.5 Gallons per week at home, and there’s no way we’d have the fridge space for that on the boat. We figured that we would give dried milk…
Everybody has a VitaMix it seams. They’re really expensive and big, so they must be good. Plus, you can make just about anything with them. We have one. It came with our boat which was nice. We never use it. It’s big and a pain to clean. However, we make our…
Chips chips chips. We love chips. When we first got to the Bahamas, we realized that a bag of Doritos was about $7. At first we wished that we had brought more with us, but then we realized that we didn’t have storage for 50 bags of chips. You know what we did have…
Cloth napkins are a no brainer, especially if you’ve already followed our advice and started using cloth paper towels…