Great Lakes?
My wife and I were certainly cruisers aboard our E-38 Rag Doll, not racers. And while we didn't cruise in the NW that you ask about, our cruises in the remote areas of the North Channel of the Great Lakes were quite isolated, with a visit to town only about every 8 days or so. We carried all the food (and laundry!) we needed for a four week cruise, only stopping in town for ice, water, and a pump out.
And while I never got a toothache, I did fall down once getting out of the dinghy and split my forehead open all the way to the skull. Happened about 5 PM, and the nearest doctor was about six hours away, so I just had to close it with a butterfly bandage and wait till the next day for treatment (you don't travel at night in the North Channel, too many rocks!).
No meat, as we are vegetarians, which makes outfitting the galley much easier. Water was 65 gallons, which easily lasted the two of us 8 days (we used lake water for showers). For cooking we used CNG, and found we needed about 1.5 tanks for the four weeks.
Anyway, if you really want to read more about cruising the North Channel, you are welcome to go to my web page at
http://webpages.charter.net/besley/ and check out one of my cruising stories from our first years with Rag Doll, back in '94, '95, and '96. I used to write up the cruise each year as a narrative for family and friends (sort of like a 20 page Christmas card). '94 was our first year with the boat, and we stayed at the many state marinas along the shore of Michigan for our first Ericson cruise. But in '95 and '96 we anchored out about 4 weeks each in the North Channel.
Speaking of writing, I just got another article accepted for publication in Ocean Navigator. Not sure of the publication date yet, but I'll let everyone on the board know.