It’s May and the smell of grilling throughout a neighborhood during the dinner hour is a smell that lets me know that we’ve firmly arrived in summer. Grilling is easy and healthy and we Americans just love it. There are a few simple techniques that can make your grilling almost foolproof. I have also included [...]
Please forgive us in advance be we are taking a little trip back in time and going a little techno here for this post. When Captains Jon & Annie took over stewardship of the Schooner J&E Riggin in winter of 1997/1998, as part of the package of boat and business, they inherited a one page [...]
We are in the process of updating our website and are looking for photos that say ‘a Maine windjammer cruise on the J&E Riggin is the vacation you want to take this year.’ If you have photos that you’d like to share with us and could be used throughout the site please send them along! [...]
Part 2 of Winter in Maine brings you the photography of husband and wife team Bob & Anne-Marie Trapani. We love, and know you will too, their blog Moments in Maine. Here are a few of their photos from this winter.
If you are a subscriber to our newsletter then you saw our segment on Winter in Maine. I wish I’d had more space in the newsletter to share all the photographs that we wanted to share with you. Since we didn’t we thought why not here! So for your viewing pleasure this post and the [...]
What I see and hear from folks more often than any other around the subject of food, focuses on wanting food preparation to be easy and quick. Or maybe this is just me talking to myself as dinnertime approaches and I’ve been testing recipes all day and still have nothing that actually constitutes a meal [...]
Winter is the time for projects. Projects in the barn, on the boat and in the office. In recent weeks Captain Jon has started on a few projects. In the barn Cap has started sanding and staining the forward skylight and adding window bars. On the boat he has started the process of adding [...]
It doesn’t happen every winter and when it does it’s typically in mid to late January/early February, but yes, Rockland Harbor can and does freeze. In order for this to happen the salt water temperature needs to be -1.9 degrees C or 28.4 degrees F. For as long as I can remember when it [...]
We’ve been having crazy winter weather this week! The girls have hardly been to school between delayed start, early release or not going at all. Today is one of those no school at all days and depending on which forecast you listen to we are due anywhere from another 6-14 inches of snow. Annie and [...]
When last we updated you on The Galley Chef we were shopping the show to several networks. Recently the PBS powerhouses, APT – American Public Television and WGBH – Boston Public Television, have officially endorsed the project, knowing that we have something special here. An endorsement from these networks is something 95% of projects do [...]
