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It was 1978, I had hitchhiked across the South Pacific on other peoples boats and was living in San Francisco. I met some backpackers from Denmark who were on their way to Peru, South America. They had heard from other backpackers that the Incas have a Sun Festival called Inti Raymi that only happens every 300 years. It sounded so cool and what an opportunity if it only happened every 300 years! I was working and saving to continue my trip to England.
Well, I just changed my plans.
Being a ‘Gourmet Chef’ was an evolution for me. An evolution that took a while. When Whitey and I first started working on charter boats I was very much a novice in the galley, kitchen, whatever you want to call it. Luckily our first jobs as crew were in the British Virgin Islands, which is charter boat center in the Caribbean, which meant there were many chef’s to network with, swap recipes and get lots of ideas. All the networking provided all of the newby chef’s valuable assistance as we planned meals and cooked for our charter guests.
I am not a trained chef. Really it was only a slight interest to me as a young adult. I knew enough to get by when I was single and had a couple of signature dishes to show off to a new boyfriend. That was until my husband and I landed our job as Captain and Chef on a charter boat. Chef – that’s me. Old land based friends would say ‘I didn’t know you could cook Max’. It’s amazing what you can do if you put your mind to it. After working for a charter boat company for three years in the BVI’s we moved into working on our own private charter boat. It’s a natural evolution that most crews do. (more…)
“I hear there are clams up that river”, said Steve who was cruising on his boat from Gig Harbor, Washington. “That’s right’ piped in his wife. “I read in the cruising guide, there is a small creek heading north from that beach that has lots of clams. We just need some buckets and something to shovel with.” The idea sounded great to us. A little land excursion is always good when you are living on a boat. (more…)
Arriving in the Dominican Republic on the Ericson 35 was my first experience to visit a Latin country via a boat. We had just come from the Turks and Caicos Islands, which was practically a resort experience since we had friends staying on land while there. But as we arrived in Puerto Plata on the north coast of Dominican Republic there was a real feeling within me that now I am a traveller. I am now an explorer of distant ports. (more…)
