An occasional series of practical recipes to cook aboard using the ingredients at hand.
BERGAMOT SCONES
B is for Beverly
Petit Calivigny Bay, Grenada, July 8 to 15, 2012
Many of you enjoyed our early post about out first boat pet, Arthur. (See Our day with Arthur, the tiny octopus.)
This post is about our second boat pet Beverly, a Grenadian gecko. (I decided that our boat pets should be named sequentially, A, B, C, etc.) Continue reading
Socialization for Phase 3
So far, I’ve divided the adventure into three phases:
- Phase 1 (April to mid-May) : Preparing us and the boat to leave Fort Lauderdale.
- Phase 2 (mid-May to July 9th) : Sailing the boat from Fort Lauderdale to Grenada. Grenada was a big destination because while we were north of Grenada, the boat was not insured against named storms (like Alberto, Beryl, Chris, and Debby).
- Phase 3 (now until TBD) : Working on the boat in Grenada and Trinidad. We’re in the second round of repairs and maintenance, fixing and improving things that we discovered during our 2700 miles of sailing in phase 2.
Recipes Afloat: #3 Mangrove Oysters
An occasional series of practical recipes to cook aboard using the ingredients at hand.
MANGROVE OYSTERS
Mangrove oysters
New heads
The electric heads (marine toilets) in the boat had a serious (and disgusting) design flaw. Tony wrote them this email:
Dear Jabsco,
I have three 58500-0012 electric toilets (foot switch) installed in my boat. Two of them have a tendency (not to put too fine a point on it) to splatter macerated shit up and out of the bowl. This is an undesirable feature in a marine head. As there are no obviously adjustable parts, I am at a loss. What would you suggest?
Pilgrimage to Pork
Puerto Rico, Father’s Day 2012
My friend Wren mentioned that her Laura’s birthday celebration included whole roast pig. This got me thinking that there are a good many blog readers who are partial to some nicely cooked pork and who might enjoy photos of Peter, Paul and Tony’s pilgrimage to eat pork in the famous lechonera La Ranchera the mountains of Puerto Rico. Gayle went along as the designated driver; she ate roast chicken.
Pete’s first On-Delay haircut
The barber is in: pictures from Pete’s first haircut on the boat.
Safety at Sea Part 2: Drogue Day
When we first started out we practiced our man overboard drills.
Another safety aspect is sailing in heavy weather. When there are strong winds and heavy seas, the boat can pitch-pole. That is to say it can slide down the face of a steep wave, bury its nose and tip over. There is a diagram here. For various reasons this is more of a risk with catamarans than monohulls. Continue reading
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Gustavia, Saint Barthélemy, French West Indies
The island (also called St Barth and St Barts) is named after Christopher Columbus’s younger brother. The main town on the island is Gustavia.
We really liked Gustavia in the off season. Here are some reasons why: