Nothing wrong with a good cup of java, I love coffee. I use a perk coffee
maker, with the old alcohol stove.

But .. I was just thinking ..

How did old Joshua Slocum get all the way around the world without any of
these fancy things we yachtspeople
have today?


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"Glenn Ashmore" wrote in message
...
Guess you can tell I am working on the galley/salon. :-)

Being addicted to drip coffee, I have been looking for a good coffee maker
with a thermal carafe that would fit in the galley without taking up much
space and not end up on the deck. Finally found this:
http://www.defender.com/product.jsp?...8527&id=860319
at Defender.

Anyone seen one of these in person? Most built in coffee makers run two
boat bucks or more. I am wondering if this thing is built well enough to
hold up.

--
Glenn Ashmore

I'm building a 45' cutter in strip/composite. Watch my progress (or lack
there of) at: http://www.rutuonline.com
Shameless Commercial Division: http://www.spade-anchor-us.com

On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 18:29:28 GMT, "Sir Thomas of Cannondale"
wrote:

How did old Joshua Slocum get all the way around the world without any of
these fancy things we yachtspeople
have today?

"...I studied with diligence Neptune's laws,
and these laws I tried to obey..." [Joshua Slocum]

Almost like poetry, but it was clipped from the middle
of a paragraph in his book. True, it isn't how he managed
without modern conveniences, but simply how he made it
around the oceans.
--Pete
Peter W. Meek
http://www.msen.com/~pwmeek/

On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 18:29:28 GMT, "Sir Thomas of Cannondale"
wrote:

How did old Joshua Slocum get all the way around the world without any of
these fancy things we yachtspeople
have today?

the same way Magellen did it.... Good Seamanship......

--
Bruce in alaska
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On Jan 20, 7:43*am, "Glenn Ashmore" wrote:
Guess you can tell I am working on the galley/salon. *:-)

Being addicted to drip coffee,


I tried the french press when I got it for a present.

I now use a method learned when I spent 9 months on a Polish factory
trawler in the Bering Sea and later Hake off OR WA coast. The bridge
guys would grind beans and put it in a small can at begining of each
watch. THen when ya wanted a cup ya just boiled some water and put a
couple spoons full of coffee in the cup. Pour in the water.... let sit
for a while....HOT COFFEE. just like instant sanka. Just dont go
stirring up the stuff on the bottom of the cup.

Thats my prefered method now. Simple and another thing I dont have to
fret over, think about, buy, maintain, break.... buy again bla bla.
But im also the guy who threw out my solon table and cockpit cocktail
center piece. Its amazing how simple and easy life becomes when you
learn to do things another way. Heck, we were told, taught,
manipulated to beive we had to have coffee pots. So why cant we just
learn to do it a simpler cheeper way???? Oh, ya 2/3 of our nations
economy is from people buying ****.

Bob

"Bob" wrote in message
...
On Jan 20, 7:43 am, "Glenn Ashmore" wrote:
Guess you can tell I am working on the galley/salon. :-)

Being addicted to drip coffee,


I tried the french press when I got it for a present.

I now use a method learned when I spent 9 months on a Polish factory
trawler in the Bering Sea and later Hake off OR WA coast. The bridge
guys would grind beans and put it in a small can at begining of each
watch. THen when ya wanted a cup ya just boiled some water and put a
couple spoons full of coffee in the cup. Pour in the water.... let sit
for a while....HOT COFFEE. just like instant sanka. Just dont go
stirring up the stuff on the bottom of the cup.

Thats my prefered method now. Simple and another thing I dont have to
fret over, think about, buy, maintain, break.... buy again bla bla.
But im also the guy who threw out my solon table and cockpit cocktail
center piece. Its amazing how simple and easy life becomes when you
learn to do things another way. Heck, we were told, taught,
manipulated to beive we had to have coffee pots. So why cant we just
learn to do it a simpler cheeper way???? Oh, ya 2/3 of our nations
economy is from people buying ****.

Bob, you forgot to add made in China.

Leanne

The thing about single cup coffee brewing is that every time you want a cup
you have to go below, fill a pot, boil the water, measure out the coffee and
pour it all through the filter or press. With an 8 or 10 cup maker you fill
it when your watch starts and just run below and pour a cup when you need
it.

--
Glenn Ashmore

I'm building a 45' cutter in strip/composite. Watch my progress (or lack
there of) at: http://www.rutuonline.com
Shameless Commercial Division: http://www.spade-anchor-us.com

"Glenn Ashmore" wrote in message
...
Guess you can tell I am working on the galley/salon. :-)

Being addicted to drip coffee, I have been looking for a good coffee maker
with a thermal carafe that would fit in the galley without taking up much
space and not end up on the deck. Finally found this:
http://www.defender.com/product.jsp?...8527&id=860319
at Defender.

Anyone seen one of these in person? Most built in coffee makers run two
boat bucks or more. I am wondering if this thing is built well enough to
hold up.

--
Glenn Ashmore

I'm building a 45' cutter in strip/composite. Watch my progress (or lack
there of) at: http://www.rutuonline.com
Shameless Commercial Division: http://www.spade-anchor-us.com

Glenn Ashmore wrote:
The thing about single cup coffee brewing is that every time you want a cup
you have to go below, fill a pot, boil the water, measure out the coffee and
pour it all through the filter or press. With an 8 or 10 cup maker you fill
it when your watch starts and just run below and pour a cup when you need
it.

Nobody has mentioned the Melita cone. I've used one for years. Put the
ground coffee--a cupful or a potful--in a paper filter in the cone, pour
boiling water through it. Makes coffee as good as that from any drip
coffee maker.

--
Peggie
----------
Peggie Hall
Specializing in marine sanitation since 1987
Author "Get Rid of Boat Odors - A Guide To Marine Sanitation Systems and
Other Sources of Aggravation and Odor"
http://shop.sailboatowners.com/boat_odors/

Peggie Hall wrote:
Glenn Ashmore wrote:
The thing about single cup coffee brewing is that every time you want
a cup you have to go below, fill a pot, boil the water, measure out
the coffee and pour it all through the filter or press. With an 8 or
10 cup maker you fill it when your watch starts and just run below and
pour a cup when you need it.

Nobody has mentioned the Melita cone. I've used one for years. Put the
ground coffee--a cupful or a potful--in a paper filter in the cone, pour
boiling water through it. Makes coffee as good as that from any drip
coffee maker.

Some one did mention Melita and I was about to myself. That's what we used.

Glenn, you are now talking about being 'on watch' which implies using
this device underway. I don't think that practical from a movement view
and from a power usage view.

Have you done much sailing? I can't see some device with 12 cups (what,
100 oz?) of boiling fluid as something I want to contend with while
underway. I doubt you can pour it into a cup anyway.

-paul

Well, first off the carafe is locked in place in the CCM1000 so it won't
fall out of the maker and it has a lid that has to be pressed to pour. That
reduces the chance of a spill.

With the pour through cones you have to handle a pot of boiling water and
hold every thing steady while you pour it through the coffee every time you
want a cup. Be it 10 oz or 100oz boiling water hurts the same. Been there
done that about 200 miles ESE of Bermuda at 3AM. Good thing I was wearing
my foulies. :-) That's WHY I have been looking for an alternative.

--
Glenn Ashmore

I'm building a 45' cutter in strip/composite. Watch my progress (or lack
there of) at: http://www.rutuonline.com
Shameless Commercial Division: http://www.spade-anchor-us.com

"Paul Cassel" wrote in message
. ..
Peggie Hall wrote:
Glenn Ashmore wrote:
The thing about single cup coffee brewing is that every time you want a
cup you have to go below, fill a pot, boil the water, measure out the
coffee and pour it all through the filter or press. With an 8 or 10 cup
maker you fill it when your watch starts and just run below and pour a
cup when you need it.

Nobody has mentioned the Melita cone. I've used one for years. Put the
ground coffee--a cupful or a potful--in a paper filter in the cone, pour
boiling water through it. Makes coffee as good as that from any drip
coffee maker.

Some one did mention Melita and I was about to myself. That's what we
used.

Glenn, you are now talking about being 'on watch' which implies using this
device underway. I don't think that practical from a movement view and
from a power usage view.

Have you done much sailing? I can't see some device with 12 cups (what,
100 oz?) of boiling fluid as something I want to contend with while
underway. I doubt you can pour it into a cup anyway.

-paul

Glenn Ashmore wrote:

With the pour through cones you have to handle a pot of boiling water and
hold every thing steady while you pour it through the coffee every time you
want a cup.

That's only true of the single cup system. Melita has a larger cone to
fill a carafe...WHICH, based on your previous comments, I assumed you'd
make while at anchor.

--
Peggie
----------
Peggie Hall
Specializing in marine sanitation since 1987
Author "Get Rid of Boat Odors - A Guide To Marine Sanitation Systems and
Other Sources of Aggravation and Odor"
http://shop.sailboatowners.com/boat_odors/