I've spent the last few days in Port McNeill provisioning for the West Coast. The next place I'll be able to provision will be Tofino. I may also be able to get some things in Tahsis or Zeballos if I choose to venture inland that far, but I'm not relying on that. I plan to take my time and explore the many inlets and islands that are there to explore, provisioning for six weeks and hoping that will be sufficient. 240L of water, 240L diesel, 15L gas, 15lb propane, 15 tins of sardines, 1.4 kg of coffee, 3 chocolate bars, 2 bags of licorice, 3 cabbages, 1 tin of varnish, 3 grits of sandpaper, 6 rolls of electrical tape, 2 lithium batteries. If anything, I'll be highly combustible. Provisioning is an interesting dance: if you increase the quantity of one item, say diesel, then you have to consider if you have enough propane, food, water, to make it through the newly extended diesel window. I should be set for 6 weeks, probably 7 to 8 if I stretched things a little, although I'd be really longing for some fresh food by that point. This is the longest I've ever provisioned for, so it's a new experience. I'm trying to make sure I record things in my new logbook app (that you're reading, but not everything in it is public) so that I can later analyse how well my provisioning went. 

What will I do when I run out of onions, though? All the onions in Port McNeill were already starting to go bad, so I didn't take on as many as I would have liked. 

I'm banking on sailing a lot more on those NW breezes, which will cut my diesel use, and hoping it will start warming up which will cut my diesel use for heating. The other limiting factor is my ability to do laundry is constrained by my water rationing, so at some point I'll want to be somewhere I can wash my clothes. This is where it would be nice to have a watermaker, but then you need more diesel, solar or gas, and those all come with their own challenges and expenses. On a boat you get a first row seat to the non-linear relationship between scaling comfort and the rise in cost and complexity. Each new technology you add needs even more technology to support it. Better to keep things simple.