For me, it's the schlepping. With a family of four and a bit of all three types of sailing, I've done my share. I've tried all kinds of methods to minimize the toil n' trouble.

I've come to the conclusion, it's completely personal. Some sailors will provision a boat in the canned and dried goods isle with a tape measure and scale, while another, a bountiful feast in mind, rolls a grocery cart out the door that looks like a display at the local farmers market.

This was load #2-'household-livestock', from the Onset docks last summer(no easy tie up). Load # 1, 'farmers market-etc', was already onboard packed in 60 pounds of block ice.

This was a 2+weeker schlepp my daughter snapped. I've done bigger, much bigger,...