Tetris for beginning boaters

 

My turn today to play Tetris. Chuck and I had a little miscommunication about food stores. I asked him how much emergency food we needed to keep on the boat, as in if we got stuck and couldn’t get into port to re-supply.  The answer: 4 days.  

Ok, fine.  So to me that means we’ve got to have four days of food on board that we don’t really wanna eat unless we have to. Things like Ramen, canned soup and canned meat,mac & cheese. Easy -peasy.

So I dutifully stocked up on such items and then I started thinking about a menu for the boat given how we can cook.  The result was the Tetris game that Chuck had to play yesterday to fit everything in the truck.

Now it’s my turn to fit everything in the sailboat. Don’t worry I have a plan. 

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