April is always an awkward month. That New Year energy is well and truly spent, the seasons are not yet settled, and everything feels a little in between. For us April has been hot and dry, a welcome change from the seemingly endless rainy days that encompassed all of February add bled into March. After…
Flashback Friday: Mexico 2009
If you’re eagle-eyed reader you may have noticed that I missed posting last week. Life happens. No excuses, just what it is. However, since I seem to have ample motivation this week I thought I might make up for things by posting twice this week. This month marks 18 years since we first stepped onboard…
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Sunday Reset and Battling Resistance
I’ve always been a bit of a procrastinator. So much so that my Mother used to call me ‘Last Minute Lucy.’ Thankfully I was a strong enough student that I could get away with doing my homework on the 45 minute bus ride to school and completing big projects the night before they were due….
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Sustainable Sailing Revisited
‘Sustainable Sailing’ was a term that I coined about five years ago when I was writing for SisterShip, a women’s sailing magazine out of Australia. After submitting a few articles to the recently revived publication, I asked if they’d be interested in me writing a regular column that addressed issues of sustainability across all aspects…
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Galley Notes: Yogurt Flatbread AKA. It’s Crazy Hot Outside but I Still Want to Eat Bread
I was fortunate enough to grow up eating homemade bread. Every few months my Dad would arrive home from town with a 100 pound bag of flour. He would heave it out of the back of his Volvo station wagon and appear in the doorway of the kitchen with it resting on his shoulder, like…
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Newton’s Laws & Life Onboard
Life, I find, often gets in the way of our aspirations. A diesel leak forces you to spend two hours on your hands and knees, elbow deep in the bilge huffing fumes and sweating through the good t-shirt you put on in the morning expecting not to get too sweaty or grimy. A routine dentist…
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Reading Round Up
I usually post a reading round up when I have a few pieces that have been published in print magazines. As I am always looking for recommendations of things to read/listen to, I thought it might be nice to share three things that I have been reading/listening to recently instead. I just unearthed the box…
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Galley Notes : The Comfort of Confit Garlic
I‘ve always been a bit of a worrier. When the wind picks up in the middle of the night I can’t just lay there knowing we are ok, I have to get out of bed to check our position. When I have an unexplained ache or pain I have been known to jump to the…
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Composting Toilet 5- Year Review
It has been five years since we installed a composting AirHead toilet onboard Kate and the other day, while giving the unit it’s monthly deep clean, I thought it might be handy to tell you what we like, what we’ve learned, and what we’ve improved. (I wrote about how a composting toilet works, and how…
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Sustainable Sailing: The Ukay Ukay & Upcycling Bedsheets
As the third of four children I grew up in hand-me-downs. Clothing was passed down from older siblings, an extensive circle of cousins, and bought from Frenchy’s, some may argue a now iconic secondhand store. It wasn’t that we couldn’t afford new, in fact I have several favourite outfit memories that were new clothes (My…
