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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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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Galley Notes: Noodle Bowls, Making Stock, and Reducing Food Waste
My cooking style, and the types of dishes I like to cook, is constantly in flux. Influenced by where we are sailing, the seasons, the local cuisine, and what is available at the market I am happy to follow where inspiration and our taste buds take me. In Mexico I regularly made corn tortillas by…
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5 Easy Steps to Make Your Crazy Great Idea a Reality
Sorry to all those readers who clicked to get hot “How To”, it’s not going to be that kinda of blog post. The heading just scored better with the SEO bot, and isn’t clicks the only thing that matters these days? Ok, seriously now. I have always subscribed to a few things when hatching a…
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Lockdown in Luzon
I woke on Tuesday morning in a bit of a panic. Or rather I woke up on the sofa at 0213 in a bit of a panic. I had been sleeping on the sofa because it has been a particularly windy week and the vee berth being at the very front of the boat is…
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Living Low-Impact on a Boat
If you have been reading for a while, then you probably noticed that we try hard to live in a way fosters sustainability and that is low-impact to the world around us. A big part of this comes about by the small, everyday decisions that we make. Whether it is choosing reusable shopping bags over…
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Galley Notes: Roller Coasters, an Empty Fridge & Veggie Fritters
This week it feels more like we live on a roller coaster than we do a sailboat, so have been the emotional peaks and troughs. We finally made some long-term sailing plans (HIGH), only to discover a broken pressure plate in the transmission (LOW). In a strange twist of fate, Jim, a fellow sailor we…
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Pseudo-Single Handing & Cooking for One
Steve is away earning beer coupons, so we can keep doing this sailing thing. If you’ve been here for a while you know this is a kind-of-regular occurrence. By that I mean he spends 8-12 weeks of the year away working, just not necessarily on any regular or predictable schedule. This time however, it was…
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Looking Forward: Looking Back
It might seem like I am a little late to the party with this one, I mean aren’t you supposed to reflect about the previous year as soon as the new year dawns? The thing is I have never been very good at following trends. I don’t necessarily think that I march to the beat…
