Re-provisioning and Rome
We live aboard full-time, but we leave the boat for a week or two, or three months, every year. Three months is the longest we've been away from home and the readjustment period is proportional to the time off the boat, but seems to get exponential if we leave for too long. To compound the issue: when we hauled out in July, we weighed in at 17 tons, a whopping 4 tons over our listed weight. Scales aren't accurate, tanks were full, the sun was in the lift operator's eyes, etc. etc. There's no way we could have added 4 tons (4 TONS!) of weight in personal and boat stuff . Or could we have? We returned to the boat with a mission to purge. We did pat ourselves on the back quite a few times upon finding such a clean and well-put-away boat, which quickly turned to mayhem when we started unpacking boxes and suitcases from our summer travels, and simultaneously started emptying lockers. Do we still need our Bahamas chartbooks? Do we keep the old main halyard? We don't rea...