Over the past few years I’ve been wearing clothes from various sailing brands (I won’t name names!) and have been left feeling like a tom-boy. I have polo shirts with a little sailboat emblem, blue and white striped tshirts with the name of a sail company embossed over the top and several ’normal’ t-shirts with[Read More]
This is the story of the man who inspired one of Britican’s most loved and enjoyed meals of all time – and the special woman that cooked the meal for us (over and over again). The recipe is included so read on! Introducing Skipper Mike and my lovely cousin, Loryn Bennett Let me start first[Read More]
Up until recently I never purchased anything other than skinless chicken breasts. I’m not exactly sure what my issue was. Perhaps I just didn’t know what to do with a full bird? Perhaps I didn’t like all the bones? And I must admit that the saggy chicken skin freaked me out! Needless to say, I’ve changed. This[Read More]
Every once in a while you meet someone special. Someone that goes above and beyond all expectations. Someone that fundamentally changes who you are and how you think. For us, we’ve been privilege to meet several ‘someone specials’ this year. It seems that we’ve been massively rewarded for saying ‘screw it’ to our lives and[Read More]
As we approach our seventh month of living full-time aboard a sailboat, I find myself living with yet another set of circumstances, in new surroundings, with yet another ‘routine’ to figure out. We’ve decided to winter ourselves and the boat in Marina di Ragusa, Sicily That means that we’ll stay in the marina all winter[Read More]
Imagine enjoying a nice book while curled up on the saloon sofa and having to hear brrrrrrrrrrrip every twenty minutes? Consider what it’s like when you finally start to drift off to sleep and the low murmur of brrrrrrrrrip echos through the boat? For several months I’ve been enduring the annoying sound of brrrrrrrrrip throughout[Read More]
While being laid up in Preveza, Greece with engine, generator and rigging problems our dynamic life on the sea changed to a slow life on the hard. With no car, only two restaurants and a massive out of water storage marina surrounding us, we didn’t have our usual dose of ancient archeological sites, tourist attractions,[Read More]
My mind feels all jumbled up. There’s so much I want to say but I’m not sure if I can take the jumble and detangle it. The events of my life over the past few months as a new boat owner seem to be guided. If I didn’t know any better, I’d think that there’s[Read More]
Both my mom and step-father (pictured above), Victor, are great cooks. Whenever I visit home there are a few family specialities that I always ask for. One of those special dishes is Victor’s green bean salad recipe For the past 25 years I’ve relied on Victor to make the salad. Never did I consider doing[Read More]
Right now I’m full of anger with myself. Looking back, I didn’t do enough. I didn’t pay enough attention during my Diesel Marine Engine Course and I didn’t research the most important things to know before taking over a second hand boat. Yes, we had a 35’ Moody sailboat for a couple years but the[Read More]
