Day minus 1 Provisioning

Satisfaction of work accomplished
I had spent several days compiling the input from two books, Mark’s list, my list and Penelope’s list into one master provisioning list organized by the types of food we would need and their location in a U.S. supermarket. The books recommended we buy 30 days of normal provisions plus a 50% excess and another 50% of survival items like rice, flour and canned meats, vegetables and fruit.
We made two trips to Sam’s Club and Wal-Mart and filled a taxi on each trip. The boat is now about 3 inches lower in the water.
Buying the items was only part of the project that took all day. The second was removing all paper and cardboard as they harbor the eggs of various insects which could hatch later once we were at sea. The book tells some rather unpleasant stories of cruisers who purchased stores in third world countries only to find they had also brought on board some uninvited guests.
The last job was stowing everything. Southern Star has an amazing amount of storage space but not all of it is easy to access. As you can see, some unnamed member of the team had to get things into the under-floor spaces.