Probably the #1 lifesyle question we’re asked is don’t you get bored sitting around the boat all day with nothing to do? Seriously, like everything else in life, cruising aboard a sailboat consists of tradeoffs… positives & negatives. Laundry is a good example of a simple task that takes on […]

Don’t you get bored sitting around the boat all day ...

New England Style Clam Chowder
One of the favorite dishes aboard Rocinante is a big bowl of our hearty, New England Style Clam Chowder and a hunk of our fresh, Homemade Bread!  Like so many of our favorite meals, it was born of necessity… we had dawdled a bit too long heading south and it […]

New England Style Clam Chowder

Old-Fasioned Buttermilk Doughnuts
First, I must give credit where credit is due – these doughnuts are based on an Old-Fashioned Sour Cream Doughnut recipe published by Tessa on her blog Handle The Heat – when you get a chance, go check it out. So anyway, last week I was looking around on Pinterest and ran […]

Old-Fashioned Buttermilk Doughnuts

Homemade Buttermilk
That’s right, none of that whimpy 2% stuff for us – we love our Homemade Buttermilk made from whole milk – M’mm M’mm Good! We use it to make our Buttermilk Pancakes, our Old-Fashioned Buttermilk Doughnuts, Ranch Dressing, Mashed Potatoes, etc., etc., etc. There’s really not much to it, you […]

Homemade Buttermilk

May 17 – 19, 2003   “Whatever you can do, or dream you can, Begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it…” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Our story begins on a cold, damp, coastal Connecticut day in late Maywith me standing on the deck of our very own […]

Our Maiden Voyage – The madness begins!