How I Prepared a 10-day Meal Plan for Our Sailing Vacation
Cruising out of lockdown on a 36-foot sailboat.
I stand looking down at the piece of paper in my hand, on which I have scribbled my grocery list. I am in front of the potatoes in my local grocers produce aisle. I do not find potatoes on my list. Do we have potatoes? I don’t recall seeing any in the pantry.
Never enough potatoes, I announce to no one around, as I plop a 5 lb. bag into my cart.
A few months ago my partner Richard and I began discussing what it would look like to embark on an extended sailing trip. We had postponed all our previous travel due to Covid-19 restrictions, consequentially feeling a little landlocked.
But there is always sailing! An exciting, fun, and socially distancing activity.
The Vacation Plan
We live in the Pacific Northwest, near some of the region’s most beautiful waterways. With some vacation time coming up for him, we decided on a 10-day sail around the northern Puget Sound waters, circumnavigating Whidbey Island and ending in the archipelago of the San Juan Islands before completing our circle by returning to Bellingham Bay, where we moor the sailboat.
