Here's everything you need to know to create and enjoy fresh, flavorful, and healthful cuisine aboard, with more than 450 time-tested, palate-pleasing recipes.

Eat well at every meal and enjoy the voyage. Cooking on a small boat—sail or power—requires special attention few new boaters understand. Sylvia Williams Dabney is a longtime live-aboard sailor with more than sixty thousand offshore miles who understands the necessity of a well-stored pantry and loves collecting recipes from around the world. In The Boater’s Cookbook, Sylvia shares everything anyone needs to know about creating stunning meals in a small boat galley. Readers will find a comprehensive list of what gadgets, gear, and supplies to bring and how to store them in limited space aboard a fully functioning yacht galley—whether it’s a twenty-seven-foot sailboat or a sixty-foot motor cruiser. Sylvia also offers up time-tested recipes by longtime sailors, and the stories that came along with them. Recipes are organized in accessible chapters: Appetizers Soups & Stews Salads Seafood And Much, Much More! Boaters with limited space and cramped galleys can enjoy every meal if they know the tricks acquired by Sylvia Williams Dabney and the boaters she has met over a lifetime of cruising.

Written from a cook's perspective, this book helps you choose supplies and provisions to fit your cooking styles and teaches you to plan and execute workable menus at sea, and in harbour. It includes up-to-date information on water, stoves, refrigeration, nutrition, food safety, storage, menu planning and clean up, with a special feature on recipe development and a set of original recipes.

A collection of 350 recipes from all over the world, covering everything from seafood, meat and eggs to pasta, rice and vegetables, as well as fruit, salads, baked goods and drinks. In addition there are topics of particular interest to bluewater cruisers, such as worldwide provisioning - which is a special challenge on board - gallery equipment, rough weather foods and a tropical fruit guide. Cruising cooking is an exercise in ingenuity, experimentation and adaption. It is also about improvisation, using new ingredients in strange places, often under difficult circumstances in a small galley. As with every sport, good nutrition and a varied, balanced diet are vital for every sailor, and this book aims to help keep the cruiser away from a diet of canned and bland goods.

No matter what anyone tells you, boat cooking IS different from cooking ashore. The space is smaller, there’s no grocery store 5 minutes away, you have fewer prepared foods and electric appliances, and food storage is much different. Despite cruising different oceans, we—Jan and Carolyn--both faced the same challenges: eating well while having time to enjoy all the other great aspects of cruising. We love to snorkel, swim, kayak, explore—and just sit and admire the view. We learned with the cookbooks we both had aboard, and wished for information that wasn't available--like when Jan ended up with a frozen chicken complete with head and feet and no instructions on how to cut it up. When we couldn't get foods such as sour cream, English muffins, spaghetti sauce or yogurt, we adapted recipes to make our own. Other times, we experimented with substituting ingredients--maybe the result wasn’t identical, but it was still tasty. We ended up with over 150 substitutions and dozens of “make it yourself” options. As we traded recipes and knowledge with each other, we realized we were compiling information that became The Boat Galley Cookbook: 800+ recipes made from readily-obtainable ingredients with hand utensils, including numerous choices to suit every taste: not just one cake but 20, 16 ways to prepare fish, 10 regional barbeque sauces, and so on. Step-by-step directions to give even “non-cooks” the confidence they can turn out tasty meals without prepared foods. Detailed instructions on unfamiliar things like making yogurt and bread, grilling virtually every food imaginable, preparing and cooking freshly-caught fish and seafood, cutting up and boning meat, cooking in a Thermos and baking on the stove top, as well as lots of tips on how to do things more easily in a tiny, moving kitchen. All this in an easy-to-navigate format including side tabs on the Contents to help you find your way and extensive cross reference lists at the end of each chapter. Quick Reference Lists provide idea starters: suggestions of included recipes for such categories as Mexican, Asian, and Potluck. The Boat Galley Cookbook is designed to help you every step of the way. We hope it becomes a trusted reference on your boat, and a source of many enjoyable meals.

Written from a cook's perspective, this book helps you choose supplies and provisions to fit your cooking styles and teaches you to plan and execute workable menus at sea, and in harbour. It includes up-to-date information on water, stoves, refrigeration, nutrition, food safety, storage, menu planning and clean up, with a special feature on recipe development and a set of original recipes.