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Tag: Pacific cruising

Boat and Sailing

Just arrived | Life Raft installed

Posted on July 31, 2013 by Luksana Panyavanich

Dear Readers, Regarding to the Pacific Crossing which have been delayed. The Life Raft that we order from Sea Sport Prince Rupert has just arrived. It can fit  ...

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May refitting | Personal Location Beacons | Aerial Base installation| Wire | AIS VHF Radio |Folding Bicycle

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” ― Albert Einstein Dear Friends & readers, Our post today is to continued from the previous post ‘Further refitting’ p.s.  Our blog just changed site title from South Pacific ‘engagement’ to ‘journal’  🙂 …
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May 21, 2013 / Luksana Panyavanich / AIS VHF Radio, Boat and Sailing, Crossing the Pacific 2014 {Postpone to Spring 2015}, Personal Location Beacons, Sailing, South Pacific sailing plan

Extra smooth Hummus

food photographs by South Pacific Journal This post is to continue from Pita bread with Shish Tawook and Garlic sauce, I am still having fun making pita bread, Today I would like to share my experience of making extra smooth hummus with dry chickpeas and serve simple with oven baked home-made pita bread. I prefer to make extra smooth hummus. Do this by discarding the …
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May 11, 2013 / Luksana Panyavanich / Cooking along the recipe, extra smooth hummus, hummus, Hummus dip, hummus recipe, vegetarian

Violet panicle ‘ช่อม่วง’

This week we started to get  sunshine.  I feel the heatwaves inside the kitchen while shaping this flowers for appetizer. This post I present about how to make ‘Chor Muang’ (Steamed flower shape stuffed crabmeat) This is one of the traditional Thai appetizer – Dessert that create since The Thai king Rama II.  The natural colour of blue-purple tone is natural from the butterfly pea flowers extract …
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May 7, 2013 / Luksana Panyavanich / Recipes of Thailand, Violet panicle, ช่อม่วง, อาหารว่างไทย

The Golden Retriever “Exclusive Nature Park”

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April 27, 2013 / Luksana Panyavanich / Free range golden retriever, Free run golden retrievers, Golden Retrievers, outdoors, Supernatural British Columbia, โกลเด้น รีทรีฟเวอร์

Pita bread with Lebanese Shish Tawook & garlic sauce

Homemade Pita bread served with Lebanese Shish tawook & Garlic sauce, Photographs by Luksana As spring arrives I see more green leaves in the wild forest here and fall in love with the beauty of the wild forest all over again. The post for today is my first time sharing experience to make pita bread. My eagerness to make this pita bread started from the …
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April 23, 2013 / Luksana Panyavanich / Cooking along the recipe, Lebanese shish tawook

‘Kleeb Lamduan’ Thai shortbread cookies ขนมกลีบลำดวน

Our presentation for today is baking Tradition Thai style cookies.  This style of cookies made in the shape of flower, in Thailand we called ‘Lamduan flower‘ ดอกลำดวน หรือ ดอกหอมนวล with the feature of the cookies to made to look like ‘Lamduan flower’  The main ingredients for this cookies included with 3 ingredients are flour, sugar and oil. This cookie  is often used on auspicious occasions such …
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April 17, 2013 / Luksana Panyavanich / Baking, How to make Kleeb Lumduan Petal cookies, Kleeb Lamduan, Melodorum fruticosum, Recipes of Thailand, Thai cooking tutorial, Thai shortbread cookies, ขนมกลีบลำดวน

Spring on the Wild Nass River with the Golden Retriever

Greetings from wilderness river, Our post for today is about exploring and playing in the icy water of the Nass River. Finally spring have arrived in Northern British Columbia, someday we have sun but mostly cloudy and cold. ‘Maisie, an 8 year old golden retriever is our guest. Most Golden enjoy the nature outdoor here with walking, new smell and swimming, all the Golden Retriever’s …
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April 16, 2013 / Luksana Panyavanich / Golden Retrievers, Nass River, northern british columbia, outdoors, Supernatural British Columbia, wilderness river, โกลเด้น รีทรีฟเวอร์

Almond & Orange Cake

Our presentation for today is baking for dessert ‘Almond and orange cake’ The original recipe is from Chef Michel Roux Jr. This recipe is a moist cake which uses  less flour. I  used regular cake flour (for plain flour), caster sugar I like to use extra refined granulated sugar, Almond nuts ground make fresh and Marmalade uses extra  than one tablespoon in the original menu …
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April 11, 2013 / Luksana Panyavanich / Baking, Chef Michel Roux Jr. ‘s Almond and orange cake, Classic dessert recipe, michel roux jr, orange recipe, zest of orange

Further refitting | Propane installation

As usual the weekend  has passed  by quickly and the difference in climate for each day is extreme. Anyway we have installed a new window and not 100% complete yet. The mast had been done three steps more. Special thanks for two propane tanks are sponsored by The Argosy (Studio and Gallery) 3rd Avenue West, Prince Rupert BC Please feel free to sponsor large or small!! …
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April 9, 2013 / Luksana Panyavanich / beautiful swimmer, Boat and Sailing, Boat refitting, Boat sponsor, outdoors, Propane tank, Sailboat window, Window leaking

Sailboat refit update for March | Galley sink, Water maker … | D.I.Y. cozy pillowsfor cabin

Continuing from our previous post on installing our ‘new to us’ mast steps we continue our drama on refitting the good ship Beautiful Swimmer. So see what else we have been doing? This post is a summary for March 2013.  Some work is in the middle of completion while some other work needs a weather forecast that does not include snow so we can make an …
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April 3, 2013 / Luksana Panyavanich / Boat and Sailing, fresh water maker, galley sink, prince rupert, sailboat dodger, Sailboat refit, sailboat window leaking, เรือใบ

Mast steps | Installation

The mast steps we collected 20 pieces from the mast collapse sailboat for $50. The decision was not to buy  folding mast steps that will cost more about $25 per piece. The different of the price we can manage to get other things to enhance the boat.  This second hand mast steps allow quick access to the cross trees when entering lagoons to see the …
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April 2, 2013 / Luksana Panyavanich / Boat and Sailing, boat gallery, Climbing sailboat mast, Mast climbing steps, sailboat, Sailboat mast climbing, Sailboat refit, บันไดปีนเสากระโดงเรือ

Sam’s “Legendary” Chocolate Chunk Pecan Cookies

Today our guest post is by Samantha Lambright and her two helpers from our Nass Valley, who will share the family’s favorite recipe in our guest post. The stories is that everyone who tastes her Chocolate Chunk Pecan cookies will keep saying that these are very delicious cookies. Homemade ‘Legendary’ Chocolate Chunk Pecan Cookies have a perfect crispy texture on the outside and a chewy …
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March 26, 2013 / Luksana Panyavanich / Baker’s semi sweet chocolate, Guest Recipe, Pecan cookies recipe

New anchor (away) | Mantus anchor installation

Greetings from Prince Rupert, This spring break week in Prince Rupert  climate has changed several times in one day. Spring always arrive later. If you are planing to do outdoor work like we plan to paint the bottom of Beautiful Swimmer you must postphone for 5 days for a good weather. Painting in freeze rain was not a good as we experienced from last time …
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March 21, 2013 / Luksana Panyavanich / Anchor, anchor away, Anchor boat, Anchor Chain, Boat Anchor, Boat and Sailing, http://mantusanchors.com/, Mooring Anchor, sailboat, The Anchor, ข้ามมหาสมุทรแปซิฟิกด้วยเรือใบ, เรือใบ

Crunchy Caramelized Thai Cookies ‘ขนมครองแครงกรอบ’

My readers, Today I made a presentation of Thai snacks  ‘Crunchy Caramelized Thai cookies’ . This is a traditional Thai Dry snack. Deep fried until crunchy, the unique taste comes from the ingredients of coconut cream as part of the dough. Coconut palm sugar and fish sauce used in the recipe for caramel sauce. The flavours of this fried cookies is special taste. We think it is …
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March 10, 2013 / Luksana Panyavanich / Recipes of Thailand, Thai Dessert, Thai fried cookies, Thai fried cookies recipe, Thai snack, ขนมครองแครงกรอบ, ครองแครง, ครองแครง สูตร

Sailboat interior, DIY curtains

Before our long journey begins, it is time to start to create our new home from “the boat”. So it’s time to change the curtains. The first curtains came with the  boat for 25 years When Beautiful Swimmer was built. It cost less than $50 to make 4 windows that wide 35″ x 3 windows and 20″ x 1 windows. Besides the rest of this …
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March 6, 2013 / Luksana Panyavanich / anchor away, Boat and Sailing, sailboat curtains, sailboat interior, Sailboat window curtains, style, www.jonesandvandermeer.com






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