[C320-list] Blue Water Sailing

[Kirk McCullough]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chef Adam Weiner" <esquirecatering at rcn.com>
To: <C320-List at Catalina320.com>
Sent: Friday, October 31, 2008 8:16 PM
Subject: Re: [C320-list] Blue Water Sailing


>
> Thank goodness you put in that last paragraph or we would get flack about
> not being 320 related.
>
> Adam
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: c320-list-bounces at lists.catalina320.com
> [mailto:c320-list-bounces at lists.catalina320.com] On Behalf Of Kirk
> McCullough
> Sent: Friday, October 31, 2008 2:02 PM
> To: C320-List at Catalina320.com
> Subject: Re: [C320-list] Blue Water Sailing
>
> Adam
>
> Well I learned that dish and a few more at the Vancouver School of 
> Culinary
> Arts, which overlooks the Granville Island Marina in the downtown area of
> Vancouver. I was part of a team that at the end of the classes, prepared a 
> 5
>
> course meal for 15 that included seered scallop salad, roasted beef
> tenderloin, linguine Alfredo (more cream, more cheese) and hand made
> mushroom ravioli and of course the creme caramel.
>
> Lot's of fun learning to cook and looking out over the marina and the 
> market
>
> place.
>
> I now appreciate all that goes on in a good kitchen to make those fabulous
> meals. Real ingredients, fresh vegetable, dairy, etc makes all the
> difference.
>
> We do a lot of cooking on board Boomerang. I love the smell of a roasting
> leg of lamb rising up from the oven as we sail to our next anchorage.
>
> Kirk
> #124
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Chef Adam Weiner" <esquirecatering at rcn.com>
> To: <C320-List at Catalina320.com>
> Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 5:48 PM
> Subject: Re: [C320-list] Blue Water Sailing
>
>
>>
>> Let me know when you want to come by my class and teach my students.
>> Assuming they live through the TV shot on Tuesday.
>>
>> Adam
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: c320-list-bounces at lists.catalina320.com
>> [mailto:c320-list-bounces at lists.catalina320.com] On Behalf Of Kirk
>> McCullough
>> Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 12:02 PM
>> To: C320-List at Catalina320.com
>> Subject: Re: [C320-list] Blue Water Sailing
>>
>> I make Creme Caramel that way. trick is not to get any water on the
>> dessert
>> when you are taking them out of the pan to blow torch them.
>>
>> Very nice dessert but very fattening and high in colesteral too., mmmmmm
>>
>> Kirk
>> #124
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Chef Adam Weiner" <esquirecatering at rcn.com>
>> To: <C320-List at Catalina320.com>
>> Sent: Monday, October 20, 2008 7:55 PM
>> Subject: Re: [C320-list] Blue Water Sailing
>>
>>
>>>
>>> For those of you who don't know, a Bain Marie is a hot water bath where
>>> you
>>> put the food not on the oven rack, but in a pan of hot water and put 
>>> that
>>> in
>>> the oven.  I can't even fathom (bad pun) doing that in 35k with 16 foot
>>> seas.  My students have a hard enough time doing it (there are some
>>> tricks)
>>> in a non-floating kitchen.
>>>
>>> You could write a full length article about this trip.
>>>
>>> Adam
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: c320-list-bounces at lists.catalina320.com
>>> [mailto:c320-list-bounces at lists.catalina320.com] On Behalf Of Jerry 
>>> Brown
>>> Sent: Monday, October 20, 2008 4:46 PM
>>> To: C320-List at Catalina320.com
>>> Subject: Re: [C320-list] Blue Water Sailing
>>>
>>> Hi Adam
>>>
>>> I just wanted to reinforce your point about enthusiasm and preparation
>>> being
>>>
>>> keys to success in preparing meal aboard.  On my one blue water trip (on
>>> a
>>> custom steel 67ft yacht) we had a crew of 14 mainly novices with a
>>> professional skipper and mate.  We sailed from Plymouth UK around the
>>> Fastnet rock off the Republic of Ireland into Kinsale for a beer or two
>>> and
>>> back to Plymouth in February.  As you may imagine the weather was cold
>>> and
>>> the seas lively.  One of our number, who was celebrating his 65th
>>> birthday
>>> with this trip, admitted he had never cooked a meal in his life having
>>> been
>>> provide for by first his mother and then his wife to that point.  As you
>>> can
>>>
>>> imagine hot food was priority and we were cooking fresh 3 times a day on
>>> a
>>
>>> 3
>>>
>>> burner stove and a very weak electric oven.  He was sent below in 5 
>>> metre
>>> seas with a wind of 35knots plus and a temperature of around plus 2 with
>>> a
>>> competent home cook from the crew to supervise but not do anything.  The
>>> resulting Chili con Carne served with a dressed green salad and garlic
>>> bread
>>>
>>> was enjoyed by both watches.
>>>
>>> One of the crew also complained about a lack of custard for his fruit 
>>> pie
>>> (being a Brit).  It was interesting for me to use a Bain Marie in 
>>> similar
>>> conditions on a violently gimballing stove but the job got dome and 
>>> fresh
>>> custard was served.
>>>
>>> Driving that boat in at 4.00am with all sails up at between 10 and 12
>>> knots
>>> close hauled in the English Channel, dodging commercial traffic in a 
>>> snow
>>> storm was an amazing and exhilarating experience but mighty hard work.
>>> None
>>>
>>> of us could be on the wheel for more than an hour at a time before we
>>> needed
>>>
>>> relieving in those conditions
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> Jerry Brown
>>> Indigo #1137
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "Chef Adam Weiner" <esquirecatering at rcn.com>
>>> To: <C320-List at Catalina320.com>
>>> Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2008 12:15 AM
>>> Subject: Re: [C320-list] Blue Water Sailing
>>>
>>>
>>>> Gee I was trying for some humor poking fun at the list and I hit one
>>>> right.
>>>>
>>>> Amazing.
>>>>
>>>> Adam
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: c320-list-bounces at lists.catalina320.com
>>>> [mailto:c320-list-bounces at lists.catalina320.com] On Behalf Of
>>>> allan.field at verizon.net
>>>> Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2008 4:52 PM
>>>> To: C320-List at Catalina320.com
>>>> Subject: Re: [C320-list] Blue Water Sailing
>>>>
>>>> Adam - you got 1 out of 10 right - number 6.  Still waiting to hear if
>>>> BWS
>>>> will let me post on the website.  If no, will send out scanned to those
>>>> who
>>>> asked for it when we return from Tahoe.
>>>>
>>>> The main issue is that the transom design doesn't take a robust
>>>> self-steering vane and the stock autohelm packed up after 200 miles.
>>>>
>>>> Allan S. Field
>>>> Sent from my Treo PDA
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>
>>>> From:  "Chef Adam Weiner" <esquirecatering at rcn.com>
>>>> Subj:  Re: [C320-list] Blue Water Sailing
>>>> Date:  Sat Oct 18, 2008 9:39 am
>>>> Size:  2K
>>>> To:  <C320-List at Catalina320.com>
>>>> cc:  craigeneboe at aol.com; straum_rpi at yahoo.com
>>>>
>>>> Without reading the article about blue water sailing I will stick my
>>>> neck
>>>> out and venture that the negative things they wrote about the 320 were:
>>>>
>>>> `1. The boat doesn't come stock with a folding prop.
>>>> 2. The cabin lights are too dim
>>>> 3. There are 4D batteries on board instead of golf cart batteries.
>>>> 4.  There is no separate starter battery
>>>> 5. There is no television on board
>>>> 6. The anchor type is wrong (whatever the anchor type is)
>>>> 7. There isn't a xynetc battery charger
>>>> 8. The head doesn't pump with fresh water from a y valve off of the
>>>> reefer
>>>> 9. There is no decent bunk to sleep in if there are heavy seas
>>>> 10. The high/wide aft area of the boat makes steering in a heavy aft
>>>> wind/heavy following seas difficult to steer.
>>>>
>>>> Adam
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: c320-list-bounces at lists.catalina320.com
>>>> [mailto:c320-list-bounces at lists.catalina320.com] On Behalf Of Dennis
>>>> Harris
>>>> Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2008 7:56 AM
>>>> To: C320-List at Catalina320.com
>>>> Subject: Re: [C320-list] Blue Water Sailing
>>>>
>>>> Its not a C320 but it shows just how strong these boats are.  Go to the
>>>> link
>>>>
>>>> to see some Dehler 31 test crashes into rocks and floating structures.
>>>>
>>>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvxhQO4pw2E
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> A Dehler 31 yacht is sailed at full speed into an obstruction
>>>> Category:  Sports
>>>>
>>>> Tags:  Dehler  yacht  crash  test  underwater  obstruction  aground
>>>> etap
>>>> Bavaria  Legent  Moody  jeanneau  beneteau  sailing  URL
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>>> From: <crashley at gte.net>
>>>> To: <C320-List at Catalina320.com>
>>>> Sent: Friday, October 17, 2008 2:46 AM
>>>> Subject: Re: [C320-list] Blue Water Sailing
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Is this really a surprise? The 320 is billed as a coastal cruiser. I
>>>>> suppose any boat could sail anywhere in good weather.
>>>>>
>>>>> CRA
>>>>> Rosebud #882
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>>>> From: "Allan S. Field" <allan.field at verizon.net>
>>>>> To: "Catalina Association List" <C320-List at catalina320.com>
>>>>> Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 7:37 PM
>>>>> Subject: [C320-list] Blue Water Sailing
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> For anyone thinking of offshore sailing in a Catalina 320, you might
>>>>>> want
>>>>
>>>>>> to
>>>>>> take a look at an article in the November 2008 issue of Blue Water
>>>>>> Sailing
>>>>>> titled A Passage to the Islands.  Alessandra, a C320, was sailed from
>>>>>> St.
>>>>>> Simon's Island to St. Thomas, a 1,300 mile nonstop journey, by a
>>>>>> professional delivery crew.  The article is quite detailed regarding
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> 320's shortcomings for blue water sailing and ends with faint praise:
>>>>>> ."it
>>>>>> will certainly be a good boat for weekends sailing around the 
>>>>>> islands.
>>>>>> That
>>>>>> is, after all, her intended purpose."
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am going to scan the article for saving.  If anyone wants a copy,
>>>>>> let
>>>>>> me
>>>>>> know.  I'll collect names  and send it out in about 2 weeks when I
>>>>>> return
>>>>>> from a trip to Lake Tahoe.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Allan S. Field
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Sea Shadow - #808
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Columbia, MD
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