[C320-list] Blue Water Sailing

[Kirk McCullough]

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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