What to make for dinner when there's no grocery store around for 50 nm?

Here's an idea: First, see what's in your larder. Even better, check out what you've got in your Boat Notebook provisioning pages.

Then, use one of the 13 Build-Your-Own-Meals recipes in the our Boat Notebook Printable Pages. Build your own meals are basically using what you have on hand. You'll find loose instructions for making:
Cream of Anything Soup
Pizza
Foil-Packet Fish

Provisioning for a long cruise can be overwhelming. At first glance, you might think it's like stocking a kitchen. All the baking supplies go here, and all the spices and rubs go there.

On a boat? Nope. I've spent enough time on power and sail boats to know how limited and quirky storage space can be. Ultimately, finding storage space at all becomes my biggest win. Keeping track of and being able to find what I've got then becomes  my next priority.

Sound familiar? If so, keep reading, because I found a solution to my problem. I now use a Provisioning Map and a Provisions Inventory. Here's why and how:

Have you seen our Boat Notebook Covers we're offering on Etsy? Check them out here.

Also check out our First-Mate's
Boat Notebook Pages
guaranteed to keep you
feeling more organized and safe!

This post helps shows you how to add your boat's name to our Boat Notebook cover using Microsoft Word.
Here's what you need to do:

Have you seen the new printable Boat Notebook covers we're offering on Etsy? Take a look!

They're designed for your Boat Notebook, AND they can be personalized with your boat name.

If you're wondering how to put your boat name on the cover, other than handwriting it or using Illustrator or Photoshop or Publisher, here comes your answer.

Use Canva. It's free! Just go to Canva.com and create an account. Once you do that, keep reading to find out what to do next.

Here’s another solution for creating a hot meal to eat on a cold, wet day of cruising. Again, I use the cooking-with-fleece method.  So it’s even easier to prepare in the morning, I use dehydrated veggies to add flavor.
 
Here’s what I put in my lentil soup:

Most of you know I don’t like to cook while underway. But on cold, wet days, it’s nice to have something hot when we finally anchor or dock. Using my technique of cooking-with-fleece,  I’m able to start a hot meal so it’s done by lunch time.

One meal that usually satisfies as warm and nurturing is kitchari, a traditional Ayervedic cleansing food.  
Here’s how I do it.

Operating a boat takes teamwork. It also takes knowledge. Having that knowledge will add to your sense of security, which will add to your enjoyment of your cruise.

As a first mate, you’ll want enough knowledge about anchoring to be a good second opinion for the captain when s/he is:

• choosing a good spot to anchor
• dropping and securing the anchor
• watching the anchor
• weighing or lifting the anchor

Caveat, a with everything on this blog, I get no remuneration or freebies for products I write about. Nada.

So when I go into the stratosphere about a product, it's because I've used it on a months' long cruise, and it worked really well for me in a number of ways.

True Lemon, Lime, and Orange are crystallized citrus products designed for cooking, baking, and seasoning. They are not sweetened, which is the first reason why

You’re the first mate on your boat. It’s kind of nice because the captain’s responsible for everything, even though he (or she) really does need your help in so many ways: steering, landing, anchoring, provisioning, navigating, etc.

That list gets even longer if you’re out cruising for a week or three months.

In The First Mate’s Guide to Cruising the Inside Passage I explain that a good first mate:

• Learns her (or his) boat duties, maybe not perfectly at first, to a tee.

  You know those mornings on your boat when there's a brrrr in the air? If you don't have a heater on your boat, you're considering staying in bed the rest of the day. Or if you do have a heater, maybe you don't really want to turn it on.  But, darn, it’s cold.
   Here’s a solution that I’ve found works really well. But you have to pay attention.
   First, get a candle that comes in a tin container with a lid. I buy mine at TJ Maxx, but you can find them at just about any discount and department store. Be sure to check out the scent so you know you can live with it.