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Boat and Sailing/Crossing the Pacific 2014 {Postpone to Spring 2015}/Ocean passage/off shore

Victoria | Before heading to Juan De Fuca Strait

Posted on May 31, 2014 by Luksana Panyavanich

  Greetings from Victoria, British Columbia! Our passage currently finds us in the capital city of BC. Our boat is docked right downtown in the Inner Harbo...

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Dear Readers and friends, To Pack and untie the lines to leave this dock seemed so easy for us. Unfortunately nothing is simple. With all the paper work and then medical ops for Stephen things have gotten delayed. The weather is showing no signs of being kind so we took the advantage to do more preparation and work on the boat. This post is rather …
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April 4, 2014 / Luksana Panyavanich / Boat, Boat and Sailing, Boat refitting, boat winch, boat wind generator, Crossing the Pacific 2014 {Postpone to Spring 2015}, sailboat, sailboat wind generation, Sailing, Wind generator

Broke Canadian Ingenuity |Incredible Swiss Skill {continued}

This post is very important to us and to continued from our previous post ‘ Mast Head Rigging Check‘.  After we took head sail furler down after Stephen has found the damage part at the mast head fitting that causes the head sail to jam. It had happened a few times before when we were out. We must fix it as it would only get worse and …
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March 16, 2014 / Luksana Panyavanich / Boat and Sailing, Crossing the Pacific 2014 {Postpone to Spring 2015}, head sail curler, prince rupert, Recipes of Thailand, sailboat, Sailing, Sea furler, snag fitting

Mast Head Rigging Check

Second week of March 2014 We take off the head sail. This is so we can do some maintenance  on the Hood  ‘Sea furler’  This is to do some repairs so as to make sure it is in good condition as we travel across the oceans. Silvia and Ralph, our Swiss cruiser friends (They both are ship builder)  came to help to bring it down …
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March 11, 2014 / Luksana Panyavanich / Boat and Sailing, Crossing the Pacific 2014 {Postpone to Spring 2015}, mast head rigging check, prince rupert, Sailing, sea furl

Flags to our dream destinations | It is customary to fly Courtesy National flags once your vessel has been checked into a new country.

  We just have these colourful of South Pacific flags on the boat. We ordered from U.S. because it is hard to find in Canada. These our main dream destination flags. We have to present this flag after we arrive and have been allowed entry to each country. The yellow quarantine flag is flown before entry is granted. Keep in Touch. French Polynesia Tahiti and …
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March 11, 2014 / Luksana Panyavanich / Boat and Sailing, Crossing the Pacific 2014 {Postpone to Spring 2015}, French polynesia flag, South Pacific Flags, South Pacific Ocean flags, Tuvalu flag

Biscuit style of Vanilla Eclairs | Pastry treat

Back to our boat with less comfortable but we love this adventure life style. I have more information of my baking from Grande Prairie. I made this pastry ‘Laduree Vanilla Éclairs’ with inspiration by  Kitchen Wench / Laduree Vanilla Éclairs /The original recipe from Laduree Sucre.  This is an attractive biscuit Éclair, I have made a few times and it always catches the eyes on the table. When using light …
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March 7, 2014 / Luksana Panyavanich / Baking, Cooking along the recipe, Profiteroles

Pithiviers with almond cream

This post of my “Pithiviers” (Sweet Puff Pastry day) that features a golden crust with almond cream filling. (Almonds lover pastry) Related Post: ‘Puff Pastry’ | Fearless recipe The first inspiration to make this classic french dessert is from Martha Stewart, She made quite pretty one of Pithiviers. Another reason is we already have ground almond stocked in the pantry. The puff pastry was made one …
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March 3, 2014 / Luksana Panyavanich / Baking, Cooking along the recipe, Sweet puff pastry

Puff Pastry | Fearless recipe

During our stay in Grande Prairie. I was interested to make a french dessert called ‘Pithiviers’ or ‘Pithivier’. The recipe needs puff pastry. I prefer to do homemade Puff Pastry and so I searched for a good quality recipe for a while. Eventually I got an original recipe from Pastry Chef Bo Friberg. In the recipe it advised to use bread flour but I decided …
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March 3, 2014 / Luksana Panyavanich / Baking, Cooking along the recipe, Puff Pastry, Puff pastry recipe

Tart pan Coffee cake

– Early this month I just about lost my marbles when I tried to make a coffee cake like a cinnamon swirl I had from Starbucks. It seems I got a scam recipe from the internet. The menu of coffee cake today I got the original recipe from Mama’s gotta bake/Too big to fail/1959 LAUSD Sour cream coffee cake/From the Los Angeles Times. I am …
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February 20, 2014 / Luksana Panyavanich / Baking, Coffee cake recipe, Cooking along the recipe, sour cream, Sour cream coffee cake, sour cream coffee cake recipe, Tart pan

Another scones recipe you may like

Greetings from Grande Prairie, When we first arrived in Grande Prairie during the first week in February the weather was very cold and dry with minus 20, 30. We did not go to the grocery store as often as I wish for. Today I present the scones to have with coffee or tea.  This recipe use buttermilk and the feature is likely hotel style.  Someone …
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February 17, 2014 / Luksana Panyavanich / Baking, Cooking along the recipe, Grande Prairie, scones recipe, the recipe

Port of Origin, now applied.

The important to put on a stern city sticker We have added a sticker of Prince Rupert to the stern. This sticker was made  more than 10 years ago but never used, but it still works. So it is now legal for cruising in any foreign country. The sticker I choose to put on in the calm day and without wind and current. Prince Rupert …
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February 17, 2014 / Luksana Panyavanich / Boat and Sailing, Do-It-Yourself, port of origin, prince rupert

Mast steps # Re do it again

Change from the Weak to Strong. Last week Stephen took all the mast steps off and re-install them back one by one step with 70 new bolts.  To re do this task a second time because one mast step had fall down.  Which meant that 70 rivets had to be drilled out, the steps re-drilled, the mast re-drilled and tapped for the bolt threads and …
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January 28, 2014 / Luksana Panyavanich / anchor chains, Boat and Sailing, Do-It-Yourself, the mast steps

Cabin book shelf and more …| New completed (Do that in Fiji) Projects of new year 2014

Do it yourself Cabin book shelf Galley : Do it yourself plate shelf Front cabin

  • Cabin stowage net before that doesn’t work so we build an extra wood to store clothes. Now it is work. 

Dear Readers and friends, Our blog is updating again for the first post of 2014. In past December the weather out here was rain and continued with winter …
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January 15, 2014 / Luksana Panyavanich / Boat and Sailing, Do-It-Yourself, prince rupert

Mount Hays | Winter Adventure

Regarding to follow up the previous post of The view of Prince Rupert from the airplane. Today I have a chance to walk from sea level up to the top of Mount Hays to see the view of Prince Rupert city and harbour and hike down. It takes time about 5-6 hours walking. It is a sunshine day after it rains with storm winds so …
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December 19, 2013 / Luksana Panyavanich / Adventure, Canadian Geographic : B.C. Adventure, Golden Retrievers, Mount Hays, prince rupert, Supernatural British Columbia, winter

North America continental divided

 The Rockies mountains range is dividing Alberta (flatlands) and British Columbia Hi there! I have photos from our trip between Prince Rupert and Northern Alberta. They show clearly the divide between the Flat Prairies that cover much of Western Canada and our own very Mountainous BC. When comparing to driving, traveling by air you see more of a total picture of this country. From the …
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December 4, 2013 / Luksana Panyavanich / Canadian Geographic : B.C. Adventure, Grande Prairie, The Rockies mountains range

Hot oven ‘Freshly baked croissants’

The Croissant recipe (Classic French Croissant Recipe from weekend bakery.com) 500 g French Type 55 flour or unbleached all purpose flour / plain flour (extra for dusting), I use all purpose flour ‘Robinhood’ 140 g Water 140 g Whole milk (you can take it straight from the fridge) 55 g sugar 40 g soft unsalted butter 11 g instant yeast 12 g salt, *** I use only …
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November 23, 2013 / Luksana Panyavanich / Baking, Cooking along the recipe, Grande Prairie






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