Last week I had to make water. This isn’t a new thing onboard, but it is the first time in a while that I’ve had to deal with our engine-driven reverse osmosis system by myself. I spent a couple days looking over the notes I took when we ran it just before Steve left. The…
Day by Day
In 2008 we thought that we’d take an 18-month hiatus from working as paid crew to buy a boat in California and sail it to Australia. It took us three and a half years to get to Fiji, and by then we well and truly knew that Kate was our home, not just a hiatus….
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Galley Notes : Chili Crisp
Yesterday I made a new batch of chili crisp. It’s a condiment that I consider a pantry staple that fits in somewhere between the soy sauce, fish sauce, vinegar of some sort, sesame oil and the fried shallots, toasted sesame seeds, furikaki, and togarashi. As you may have gathered I am a condiment kinda gal,…
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Mid-Year Musings
Time is a strange thing. It accumulates like pocket change – slowly, heavily. Until one day, you count it all up, and discover there is so much more than you remembered collecting. Days pass unnoticed, turning into weeks, that suddenly become months, and then you realize a whole year has somehow slid through your consciousness….
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Sustainable Sailing : Upcycling Old Gear 2.0
Last year, while we were in the boatyard, I wrote an article about PFD’s, or personal floatation devices, AKA life jackets/life vests. After doing the research for the piece I decided that our Mustang inflatable life vests were not only long over due for inspection, they were probably well past their prime. Disposing of such…
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Gaya Street Market : A Delicious Birthday Spectacle
A few weeks ago Steve celebrated his Bday. Since birthdays are meant to be special we decided to book a hotel in Kota Kinabalu for a couple nights. Kota Kinabula, or KK as the locals refer to it, is a sprawling middle sized city in the center of the northern coast of Sabah, Borneo….
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Flash Back Friday: Tortillas/Try
I have been thinking about Mexico a lot this week. How much we enjoyed our time there. How good the food was! What it would be like to return. As such I thought I would post a bonus Flash Back Friday story about wandering around eating taco, learning to make tortillas, and me beginning to…
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Galley Notes: Solar Cooking
On a recently call home my Mother asked me what I’ve been cooking. My response was “As little as possible!” Thanks to the hotter than average temperatures lately I have had very little inclination to stand over the stove. This has resulted in me serving cold-ish meals several times in the last few weeks –…
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HOT hot
The first time I travelled to the tropics was the first time I really travelled anywhere. After graduating from art college I decided to hop on a plane and explore Asia, using the home of dear family friends in Phuket as a base. One day, while exploring Phuket town, I stumbled upon a show and…
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Sustainable Sailing: Food Waste and E-Waste
Last month I mentioned that I used to write a column for SisterShip Magazine called Sustainable Sailing. I had a few readers comment that they would enjoy reading those articles so I thought I would post a few of the PDF layouts this week. One of the sustainability issues I tackled in 2020 was food…
