Ahoy Jamie.......!

[david_e]

Have just watched Jamie Oliver cooking in some remote Scottish lodge and it occured to me that he could do us all a great favour by doing a stint cooking on a boat. Nearly all the women think he is the dogs ........ and they would be rushing on board to emulate him. Does anyone know anyone at the Beeb who could sort this out? Think of the possible outcomes........!!

ps does anyone else feel a touch seasick with all that camera work?

 

[chas]

I doubt if....

.......there is enough room in the average galley for him to cook.

 

[charles_reed]

One of the best crew-morale boosts, during periods of becalm whilst on passage, is to organise a cookery competition.

It does have it's drawbacks - 120 miles from Punta, no gas and nothing left to eat but rice.

No I don't think it's a good idea, women on board restrict sailing hours - 85% at anchor or tied up is bad enough!!!

 

[Guest]

Re: Ah, but he has

Two Southampton Boat Shows ago I seem to remember a TV programme from the show which featured this chef demonstrating what could be done in a small boat' galley. The female presenter appeared quite overcome.

 

[cynthia]

Ooh Charles!!

Surely sexism cannot be rearing its ugly head on this forum? Never! Certainly not!! All you emancipated new men out there, surely that's the reason we women ever think of going to sea? (After all there couldn't possibly be any other reason, could there?)

 

[charles_reed]

Re: Ooh Charles!!

Not sexism, just experience.

The majority of women (and many men) don't think much of overcoming the challenge of a 36 mile beat in F6. Women like the compfortable parts of boating.

Apart from anything else ladies have to heave-to to use the loo in lively weather beats.

Vive la difference.

My wife and I have come to a mutually agreeable compromise - I do the passage making and she joins me for the cruising.
In the last 15 months she's seen all the S Breton coast (including trips to Quimper, Hennebont, Pont Aven, up the Belon) much of the Vendée (including the Marais Poitevin), N Spain, the Algarve, the Rivers Guadiana and Guadalquivir.

I've done the bits from Pwllhelli to la Foret, la Rochelle to Donostia - rounded Finisterre and Cape St Vincent under spinnaker (the latter was a grievous error of judgement)

 

[steve_cronin]

I think you\'ll find that it has been done...

Keith Floyd did it a couple of years back and seemed to get red wine all over the galley of a large Westerly (as I remember it to be).
Graham Kerr (the Galloping Gourmet) even went off to the Carribean on a specially equipped yacht for the purpose and wrote a few books about it.

"Cuisine" on boats tends to fall into two categories, the "stick it all into one big saucepan and give each one dollop and a lump of bread" contingent or the "just like we do at home three course" persuasion in my experience!

Steve Cronin

 

[Aja]

Good Idea. Too late though. This has already be done by Nick Nairn.. and you can still buy the book.... the video.......