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From: (no name) (no email)
Date: Tue Nov 15 2005 - 16:09:28 EST
In a message dated 11/13/2005 8:49:07 PM Eastern Standard Time,
writes:
We will be moving aboard on two months and my wife just asked me
something that neither of us have considered. How do you transport
groceries/dry goods? What do you carry them in from the store to your
boat/tender? How do you secure them in the tender? How do you get them
aboard?
In St Augustine, where we winter, we have cars. We load the goods into a
dock cart at the marina with one of us who loads it into the dinghy while the
other parks the car.
Before we leave in the spring we fully stock the boat with hundreds of
dollars of provisions. It is a big boat and there are just the two of us. We have a
six cu ft freezer, identical reefer and insulated bilges for dry and canned
goods.
In some places, such as Highlands NJ behind Sandy Hook, we have made friends
with cars who will carry us to the local supermarket.
In Norfolk we can walk to a yuppie deli about six blocks from the dinghy dock
and carry the stuff home. We try to avoid carrying stuff with a lot of water
in it.
We spend about two months in Gloucester MA in the summer. We walk about a
half mile to the grocery, buy several hundred dollars worth of food and take a
taxi back to the dinghy dock. Bread, milk and eggs can be had in an Eckerds
drug store a block from the dinghy dock, just past the Building Center (much of
the plywood and red oak I have used lately came from there, as well as some
nice "mahogany"). There are also bakeries, restaurants galore, pastry shops, and
seafood to die for.
Likewise in Vinalhaven ME we anchor in Carver's Harbor and dinghy in to the
public landing which is across the street from the grocery.
We always request plastic bags, double-bagging when called for, and tying the
handles together in a square knot on each bag.
It all gets loaded in our 10' Caribe RIB dinghy, in a heap with the hardest,
least squashable stuff on the bottom (like canned goods and sodas) and bread
and eggs on top. Sometimes we don't have room for our feet and they stick out
over the tubes. We take the load to the boat, get it aboard bag by bag, take
it below and Jan stows everything where she wants it.
We save many of the plastic grocery bags for use as trash bags in the galley
but some have to be cut open if they had heavy loads in them that jammed the
knots. We have a sausage shaped cloth cylinder with elastic openings at top
and bottom that hangs in the closet. New bags go in the top, and we pull bags
out the bottom for use as trash bags.
Norm
S/V Bandersnatch
Lying Beaufort SC
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