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no head state that's the project I've

been working on today how to change the

head stay inside of a pro Ferol roller

furling so far the hardest part of this

whole job is then to remove this

titanium bolt from the aluminum housing

that also goes into this stainless steel

plate and into this nut that's welded on

the backside that took hours but right

now what I want to talk to you about is

provisioning for an ocean passage and

what could be better than to have a

exact list of provisions that you will

need you can just go to the store you go

down the list throw everything in the

grocery cart and before you know it

you're back on the boat ready to set

sail so let's go down below where it's a

little quieter we have this big ship

making a lot of noise behind us and

we'll talk provisioning oh one other

thing if this video is good for you

about provisioning at the end please

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going down below hello I'm Patrick

Childress on Brickhouse Rebecca's out

shopping right now so that gives me a

chance to spread out here in the main

saloon and do this provisioning video

for you the most important part about

this whole video is this three-page

provisioning list which is extremely

accurate how I got this list was the

first time I ever did a boat delivery

between New England and the Caribbean a

crew went with me down to the grocery

store and every item that we put in the

grocery cart

I wrote down on a list once we got to

the Caribbean anything that was left

over I scratched off the list

after three more trips I developed this

very accurate list which is good for six

people for twelve days at sea or two

people for 36 days at sea

with very little left over at the end of

this video I'll tell you where to go

online so you can download this

provisioning list so rather than going

through the grocery store we'll just

watching somebody throw a bunch of

things at a grocery cart I'm going to

turn the camera around to the galley

where I have some food items set out and

we'll go through them item by item tell

you what to get

what not to get and some things that can

cause your problems everything I'm going

to say here comes from my own personal

experiences and observations but you

might like jalapeno peppers I don't I

might say the American beef is the best

beef for the world and your experience

would suggest that well maybe Australian

and South African is better but if you

have comments if you have disagreements

or anything you want to add just write

it in the comments down below that could

be a big benefit for everybody so let's

get started now my experience is for

provisioning are through the Caribbean

Central America and out across the

Pacific all the way to Africa I don't

know anything about provisioning in the

Med however I can tell you that once you

leave America that's a very good chance

that you'll never see cheaper prices for

food anywhere else in the world even if

you stock up in Key West which you think

is expensive wait till you get to Panama

you would think things are cheap in

Panama because the local economy but all

their canned goods and a lot of their

other items are imported from the US in

Panama wherever Panama is far cheaper

than anywhere else just about across the

Pacific

Tahiti free yet it you really want to

stock up in Panama and you work your way

to an American associated island say

like American Samoa where there again

you can find a very good variety and

much lesser prices than anywhere else in

the Pacific the other place to go for

provisioning would be the island

nation of Pulau which is a famous scuba

diving destination food is a little

expensive there but you have a lot of

variety and items that you won't find

anywhere else in the Pacific New Zealand

has a lot of food that's expensive

Australia's outrageous so we really do

try to stock up in the American

associated islands or before you leave

the u.s. the one thing that Americans do

that hardly any other culture that I

have seen does is refrigerate their pigs

just like these eggs are sitting out in

the ambient temperatures and nourishes

you'll find this same scenario across

the Pacific their eggs will last about

four to six weeks just sitting out in

the tropics sometimes the eggs are left

out in the Sun and you have to really be

careful where you buy your eggs from

occasionally they sell eggs and grocery

stores in individual cartons like this

plastic also in paper we try to stay

away from the paper cartons because

there might be cockroach eggs in there

and that's not a great thing to have a

little baby cockroaches running around

your book so we'll save these plastic

ones we'll wash them out and reuse them

two four six eight ten it's not like a

dozen in America they go metric in a lot

of these other countries and we

refrigerate we have enough room to

refrigerate maybe three cartons of eggs

and the rest of them just sit out and

we'll use the ones that sit out first so

like I say they'll last four to six

weeks just sitting out easily if you

want them to last longer you can take

Vaseline and smear around each egg and

then put it in a carton that's what they

used to do long before mostly out head

refrigeration and they would last a

couple of months that way you just need

to keep the air from penetrating through

the egg shell

milk once you leave America fresh milk

that's very difficult to find and would

be incredibly expensive so you learn to

like powdered milk sometimes you see in

these other countries like in the

Bahamas they'll have reconstituted milk

in the refrigerated section that's just

powdered milk that's been mixed for you

and children you have to check different

manufacturers of milk powder and some of

them mix easier with water than others

let's see Dairy Products G it's not been

a big problem butter that can be a

little more difficult but what we do if

we're really out in the boonies they

like out in french polynesia somewhere

we'll always have a backup can of butter

and this says pure Creamery butter Mon

tequila con Sal butter with salt and

it's actually made in New Zealand New

Zealand is a big exporter of canned

butter and in the Bahamas back in the

70s and 80s it was everywhere it's a

little more difficult now to find in the

Bahamas because they have such a good

refrigeration and in power generators

and those far out islands they aren't so

far out would anyone breakfast cereal

breakfast cereal is incredibly expensive

in all of these other countries

cornflakes Weetabix and all that stuff

and we just stay away from that Rebecca

still buys some use looks from time to

time and I would eat the whole box in

the two morning's but she can make it

last a lot longer so it isn't that bad

of an expense for us but I'll buy boat

meal and always get the instant oatmeal

the only difference between instant

oatmeal and regular oatmeal is the size

of the flake the regular oatmeal is

bigger the instant or quick fix oatmeal

has just refining the cut and ground so

it cooks faster however once you meet a

lot of other cruisers out here they

don't bother cooking their oatmeal now

you just put it in with their powdered

milk in the morning mix in some raisins

some grated coconut and whatever else

they want to make their own muesli the

thing with oatmeal is you don't want to

buy Chinese oatmeal don't try to save

money

Chinese oatmeal is full of weevils and

it may not look like it when you buy at

the store but they will hatch out

American and Australian oatmeal are

certainly the best I don't know this for

a fact but I highly suspect that they

have a heating process during their

packaging process that heats the oatmeal

and fluffs it with very hot air to kill

any of the weevil eggs that are in the

oatmeal it's just a natural fact that

weevil eggs are in oatmeal rice flour

just any of those green products

now this oatmeal jungle hose guess where

that came from this is a new experiment

this from South Africa and so we'll see

how long it takes for any weevils to

grow in here hopefully it won't ever

happen but the thing you don't want to

buy is oatmeal in a box and a box of

does grow weevils they'll be out of here

in no time crawling all over your boat

it's disgusting so in a bag at least

like this is clear you can see the

weevils growing and they will still not

a hole out through the bag as they get

thirsty and they will start looking for

water whether it's condensation on the

top of the galley or even I found a

bunch of weevils down in our sump pump

in the main saloon so hope you'll stay

with the Australian or American brands

don't buy Chinese it's terrible stuff we

will see eat more than what you do

reasons to go in your oatmeal in the

morning you can buy raisins anywhere

this these were made in Australia and

you can also get the American made

raisins no problem just about anywhere

in the world as long as we're on the

grains

this is flaxseed meal this is what I

also put in my cereal in the morning

surprisingly you can find this Red Mill

brand of grains in a lot of places

normally in the larger cities that are

more westernized like Penang Malaysia or

a big city in Thailand that has a

westernized grocery store so it's not

everywhere as you cross the Pacific but

it can be found

a lot of these things you don't want to

stock up too much especially like flour

flour and rice now rice take a look at

these weevils in this rice and I had

this bag of rice I saw that a couple

weevils were growing in there so I sent

this whole bag out in the Sun all day

and I even turned it over it was very

hot that day and I thought for sure that

would have killed the weevils and the

eggs that might be hatching out and it

didn't though yeah we lost a whole bag

of our rice to the weevils and the same

thing will happen to flour so you don't

want to over stock on flour or rice get

what you need and those are two very

easily to get commodities anywhere in

the world there's one other thing about

weevils and that information that I have

been able to gather is it it doesn't

harm anyone to eat and weevil eggs or

even the weevils themselves even if you

do it wrong so it's kind of a disgusting

thought but so it's nothing to be too

concerned about so cook them up and once

one source says just like a cow goes out

and eats grass and now you have protein

to eat they say it's the same with the

weevils no thanks

the other thing is tapioca tapioca I

always thought came in a box from this

store and there are always a little

pearls like in this bag but actually

tapioca is the root of the manioc plant

which grows throughout the tropics and

natives will use that tuber to make

puddings and desserts

it's a thickener basically and it

doesn't have any flavor unless you put

coconut there's something else in it so

this is the only tapioca that I have

seen outside of the United States and I

got this and they very out-of-the-way

island of Rodrigues and where this is

made and this is made in Thailand

popcorn popcorn once you leave America

it's all generic stuff unless again you

get to an American associated island

where you can get the gourmet popping

corn let's see

sugar burgers cheap wherever you go no

problems at all so you don't have to

stock up that much cheese key is growing

in so many places in Australia Sri Lanka

Malaysia don't ever buy stock in a tea

company I think those tea companies

those big big plantations they make more

money off of giving tours and selling

t-shirts to tourists than what they do

off of tea it's a tough business now

coffee is a little different story here

in Mauritius if you just go down and buy

a cup of coffee at the local cafe it'll

cost about three US dollars for just a

little shot glass sighs incredibly

expensive and it's also the same in a

lot of other countries so stock up on

coffee and when the Nescafe seemed to be

a popular peanut butter you can get

pretty much anywhere the problem then

becomes jellies

and jelly or you wee preserves so you

can still get the smokers and some of

the other good American preserves just

about in any major city as we travel

around the world but if you can't get

what you're looking for the French

products are just equal or if not better

than some of those American preserves so

even with these other products if you

can't find the an Australian or American

the French products are just as good

very good alternative in cake syrup

don't leave home without the maple

pancake syrup it is very difficult to

or extremely expensive to find

anywhere else in the world

sodas Pepsi products coke products it's

cheap wherever you go no problem at all

now weevils getting back to weevils

there are there is some information that

says if you put bay leaves in a

container that will discourage weevils

what that means I really don't know how

do you discourage wheels does that keep

them from catching out or they certainly

they're already in the products that

you're trying to protect but it's worth

a try so if you take your valuable oats

and put them in a big container with a

lid on it and you throw some bay leaves

in there I guess that would be a good

experiment and see if it preserves your

breakfast for you or your rice or your

flour of course cockroach is gonna be a

big problem in some of these foreign

countries we had them once and what it

takes to get rid of them and actually

ants as well

it is boric acid this is an old label

you can't really see it but it's a white

powder on the inside then you mix that

with sweetened condensed milk to make a

thick paste and then once you do that

you just take it take that paste and put

it up behind areas where the cockroaches

might crawl and it dries it stays there

forever they come to eat the sweetness

in that sweetened condensed milk

they ingest the boric acid and it

doesn't take long to get rid of the

whole infestation of ants

or cockroaches or Cassatt even though it

says the acid it's really benign that

uses from I wash canned products say

like if you're in New Zealand you'll see

a lot of canned Chinese imports and it's

disgusting stuff the only Chinese can't

items that we'll buy now from our failed

experiences is maybe some clean peaches

or mandarin oranges I mean it's the same

sweet and kind of artificial colored

stuff that you buy in the US I mean how

bad can you get but we eat it like

desert fresh produce you can get that

pretty much anywhere say like an island

so you can do a lot of trading trading

items they can be anything close I had

one man he just so desperately wanted

some riches for his five-year-old son

and unfortunately I felt so bad for him

that we didn't have anything that small

so you can bring children's clothes

adults clothes swim masks and swim fins

anything that money would buy I mean

negatives and a lot of these in

out-of-the-way places they need the

things they don't necessarily need cash

they need the things that the cash would

buy especially solar lights the solar

lights are a big deal now not just

flashlights but something like this

movie light that I'm using this plugs in

to a solar panel outside and this is

what a native would really want

something that's rechargeable rather

than using batteries

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another very unique thing that the

natives would like is a gig like this

they're cheap you can buy them in

America the most bait tackle stores and

they would use this for either spearing

fish at night or even lobsters very hard

to get in the outer islands propane

propane tanks what we have on this boat

is two backyard barbecue science propane

tanks that you see everywhere in America

those have gotten is by although they

did it get a bit rusty once we got down

to New Zealand they used the same size

tanks with the same fittings so we're

able to trade it to our old rusty ones

for some very good new ones fully filled

in the cost I think about $35 total for

each tank and since then I've been very

careful any time we allow it all sand

those tanks and prime them and paint

them and keep them up we haven't had too

much trouble filling them with propane

only in Indonesia could it have been a

problem and we even bought special

adapters so we could can't from one

larger tank to another to our own but we

never really had to do that somehow we

always got by and so we have the

connections to decant from another

propane tank but it hasn't been an issue

just yet one backyard barbeque sized

tank will last us three months so we

have a good six months supply of propane

on the

but with the propane we really don't do

much baking because that uses up propane

very quickly I might make some banana

bread once in a while and that's about

it we can be try not to bake too much

it's just a tremendous use of propane we

do have this other barbecue that we use

very rarely now it was kind of a unique

thing when we first started out sailing

but I'll use it now and then if we're

cooking fish or some chicken or maybe

some mistakes and I really want to keep

the odor outside of the boat of course

it just has to be a nice calm afternoon

or evening to do that cooking because

the wind just blows out the flame so

easily oh I forgot to mention meat

products nowhere else in the world is

there better beef than what you get in

the USA what other country can afford to

feed their cattle corn and from what I

understand 80% of the corn grown in the

u.s. goes to feeding cattle Australia

would be the next best bet for quality

of beef but still it just falls short

pork you can get pretty much anywhere

except in some of the Muslim countries

like Indonesia Malaysia you have to go

to the Chinese section of town to get

pork and it's available you just have to

look around a little bit chicken it's

universal anywhere you can get chicken

and it's very inexpensive water on the

boat

fortunately I was able to go sailing

around the world back in the late 70s

and early 80s long before reverse

osmosis water makers were invented so

that is my thinking now I just don't

need a water maker

we do have an RO reverse osmosis water

maker on the boat but in 11 years we

have never needed it

we don't use it and I have tested the

water in a number of places like right

here in Mauritius they come out of the

faucet the total dissolved solids with

85 compared to over 200 parts per

million for most RO water makers

there's no microbes in the water here

the water I get out of a lot of these

faucets that docks at marinas is much

better than what most yachts can make

with their RO systems but each to their

own there's a lot of people out cruising

around the world that don't have water

makers they catch rainwater you put a

little bleach in it a little sodium

hypochlorite and you're good to go so

that saves us a lot of maintenance a lot

of amperage by not having a water maker

well that's about all that I can think

of right now now have to get this

provisioning list go to where is brick

house calm and if it isn't right there

when you open that page search for

provisioning list and that will come up

well I hope this video has been helpful

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