Commerce gadgets to convey
For the record makers (cough ME cough) right here’s a abstract:
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Dremels, diamond bits a plus, and different carving instruments
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Generally used hand instruments
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Rope that also has life in it (simply perhaps for a horse as a substitute of a halyard!)
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Headlamps, photo voltaic powered lights like LUCI, or MPOWERD’s superior new solar-powered headlamp
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Fishing gear: large hooks for tuna, little ones for reef jigging
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Small woven line for fishing (not fishing nylon)
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Snorkeling gear: masks and fins particularly
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Soccer balls (and pumps and spare needles)
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Perfumed lotions, nail polish, lipstick (these bolstered cache to commerce for pearls within the Tuamotus, again when)
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Gasoline, and jerry cans, expensive and more durable to come back by.
Proper now I’m a bit overwhelmed by shipyard tasks and the contents of Totem being emptied into our little condo, however watch this area for updates on issues we count on to herald the months forward.
Extra on buying and selling
In case you’ve favored studying about buying and selling within the South Pacific, the place really there’s not a lot buying and selling in any case (gross sales for money vastly most popular), you may get pleasure from studying these different posts concerning the buying and selling we did in Papua New Guinea. In these islands, buying and selling with the most recent dugout to tie of your transom is a part of on a regular basis cruising life!
What to convey to Papua New Guinea: gadgets which had been most valued in PNG. It’s a listing that diverges a bunch from different South Pacific gifting right here – it’s primarily based on actual want and lack of entry to what we think about fundamentals (flour, sugar, yeast), vs issues which can be good to have.
What you’ll be buying and selling for: buying and selling in PNG was concerning the worth your good introduced. Generally, that potential to commerce what islanders want is what mattered most. Nevertheless it was additionally the one strategy to get recent produce in islands with out shops, and extra in addition to!
Various buying and selling: when a brand new good friend needed flour and yeast we needed to commerce, however nothing to trade (right here, the trade is essential), I traded for a cooking lesson for making ready coconut-steeped yams. This may work nice wherever!
Be aware – photos hyperlinks in these PNG posts are damaged! I’ll have them fastened quickly – test again to get pleasure from.
