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….
Category: Sustainable Sailing
Sustainable Sailing : Upcycling Old Gear 2.0
Last year 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 items isn’t as simple as throwing…
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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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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…
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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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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…
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Galley Notes: 2-4-1 (Tofu) Taco Wednesday
Several years ago, when Steve and I were on one of our motorcycle adventures around Australia, we got stuck in a little town called Mount Morgan, half way up the Queensland coast. It had started to rain a few days before and, fearing flooding, Steve decided it best to start making our way to higher…
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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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First Stop, the Market
The last 300 Philippine pesos we had were spent at the market – a bottle of rum, a pineapple, a handful of chilies, and four bags of ice. Sounds like the makings of a farewell party, I know, but it was just what ended up being available/needed. With the humidex pushing 40-45C our fridge was…
