Salty Souls
on sailors, cooks, and more
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Victualing is grocery shopping of a different kind
Posted on March 8th, 2009 View CommentsWhen it comes to groceries, I’m not really a planner. Or volume buyer. I never had a Costco or Sam’s Club membership, and I intend to keep it that way. I don’t need 48 rolls of kitchen towel, nor do I have the space to store them. I’m not interested in saving a couple of bucks on a dozen steak value pack, even if I had the appetite or the freezer to handle them. I’d rather walk down to the local store and get my supplies for the day (or two). There’s one big exception though. And that is victualing for a prolonged stay at sea. Victualing? Who uses that term? Sailors do.
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Don’t play with food (or food words)
Posted on March 7th, 2009 View CommentsThere is very important, and not at all important stuff in life. Within the not at all category, however, there are arguably some quite important things at the top of the list. One of these is the use of lame wordplays for food and restaurant names. It may be just my personal pet peeve, while everyone else thinks its really funny. I would find that hard to believe though.
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Yachts spend a lot of time on land
Posted on March 3rd, 2009 View CommentsFor devices designed and built to sail, yachts spend an awful lot of time on land. They also spend a lot of time shored up in marinas, but that’s a different matter altogether, probably deserving a separate post.
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Navigating the Scheepvaarthuis hemispheres
Posted on March 2nd, 2009 View CommentsThere’s a long tradition of architecture inspired by, or designed for nautical purpose. A great example of this is the ‘Scheepvaarthuis’ (which literally means Shipping House) in the center of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. This amazing building and national monument is a showcase of the ‘Amsterdamse School’ style, which similar to ‘Art Nouveau’ and ‘Jugendstil’ is very rich in detail and decoration.
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Salty Souls Are Go
Posted on March 1st, 2009 View CommentsIt’s Sunday. It’s raining. It’s the first of March. And it’s been almost five years since I claimed www.saltysouls.com with the intent to write stories about the fascinating people I met spending their lives sailing, fishing, researching the seas and oceans. I referred to them as ‘salty souls’. Because I believed that living on the big, open, and salty waters of this world leaves a distinct and lasting imprint on people’s mental constitution.
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