Galley
Back Up Your Galley Faucet
Pressurized water systems are brilliantly convenient, but they raise the question of how to get water out of the tanks in the event of a power failure or unexpected demise of the pump. For this reason, builders of expensive yachts intended for long-distance cruising often offer ...read more
Cruising: No Oven? No Worries
Many cruising boats, especially smaller ones, don’t have a conventional oven. But that doesn’t mean that you can’t have all the baked foods you want, from bread to brownies to breakfast rolls to casseroles and even a roast chicken. All it takes is the right bit of gear and a ...read more
Cruising Tips: Six Essential Galley Gadgets
1 Flame Tamer We find that our gas stove burners can’t go low enough to simmer sauces or slow-cooking items like rice without burning them. Until we started using the Flame Tamer (the generic term is “heat diffuser”), we usually burned our rice and singed our sauces. This round ...read more
Gear: The Boat Galley Cookbook
A Galley Cook’s Bible “The Boat Galley Cookbook” is the most useful, comprehensive sailing cookbook I’ve found. It has 800 recipes specially designed for cooking within the confines of a galley and thorough sections on substitutions (for when you can’t find fancy ingredients), ...read more