Recommended coffee solution:

After over 20 years of experimenting with any number of ways to make coffee on
a boat, here's my choice.

1. Boil drinking water on the stove. (obviously, all bets are off if you're in
violent weather- but you won't want to be spilling coffee all over the place
any more than you would boiling water).

2. Put insulated carafe into empty galley sink. (in case something spills
during process)

3. Put plastic cone into the mouth of the carafe

4. Insert paper filter into plastic cone.

5. Spoon Starbucks into coffee filter- more or less according to taste.

6. Pour boiling water onto the coffee. It takes two or three "doses" of water
to fill the carafe without overruning the upper limit of the paper filter. Make
sure that the
mud and slurry in the filter begin to turn light brown during the second, and
particularly the third application of hot water. Coffee beans release acid
first, (the dark brown stuff), and sugars last, (the light brown). If you don't
get some light brown, you have used too many grounds and your coffee will be
bitter.

7. Dump the filter and spent coffee grounds into the trash, stow the pan, screw
the lid on the carafe, and you have a cup of coffee for now and about three
more cups for later in the day. Minimal muss and fuss, drip coffee taste, and
almost no cleanup required. (I've found that the insulated carafe will keep
coffee acceptably hot for
about five hours).

Instant coffee? How can anybody drink instant coffee? It's like stirring some
Swiss Miss into a cup of water and pretending it's hot chocolate. Not the same
thing at all. :-)