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Saturday July 19, 2025 | Pudding & Other Delights
Of course I knew I wouldn’t starve on this journey. I did not, however, expect the breadth and quality of the bounty available to us every day.
Clear expectations were laid out on the first day aboard. Each crew member is responsible for managing their own breakfast and lunch. Staff cooks dinner and we all eat together al fresco (i.e. on deck) while debriefing events of the day and discussing the upcoming weather conditions. The 3-6 PM watch does dishes after dinner and everyone chips in with that task throughout the day.
Breakfast consists primarily of cereal—granola, cornflakes, muesli—or porridge (that’s oatmeal for us Americans). There’s plenty of goodies to add to the oatmeal. At one point someone stirred in a big spoonful of peanut butter—extra protein and extra deliciousness! I’m now hooked. If you’re short on time, a nice variety of granola bars resides in the snack cabinet. One morning I came off watch to see that first mate Mary had made chocolate chip pancakes served with real Canadian maple syrup. What a treat!
The cabinets and day refrigerator are stocked with tortillas, cheese, deli meats, lettuce, tomatoes, and various condiments for everyone to make their own wraps for lunch. Sometimes we have leftovers from dinner which can also be utilized for lunch or snacks.
OMG the snacks! The snack cabinet is incredibly well-stocked. In the first few days, when I was recovering from a nasty case of sea sickness, I discovered an array of ginger items—chews, crystallized, hard candy. Then I learned an amazing secret cure for my ailment: Pringles. Any flavor will do, but I like plain ones the best. They help. Trust me on this. In addition to these medicinal snacks, we have trail mix, pistachios, dried mangos, M&Ms, and an array of fresh fruit. As the trip has gone on, more snacks have emerged including Kind Bars, berries, and dried pineapple. Yum!
Dinners have been nothing short of restaurant quality dishes: lasagna, chili, several types of curry, risotto, shepherd’s pie, and bolognese. Most of these were made without meat and the few that do contain beef have a veggie substitute that is simply delicious. I am definitely taking these recipes home with me!
I was thrilled to find that dinners typically end with a couple of chocolate bars passed around to share. Then yesterday Mary announced that she made pudding. American English translation: dessert. One of the crew divined that “pudding” and “dessert” have the same number of letters with the double letter in the same position within the word. Go figure! These are the things that occupy our minds on a long ocean passage. The pudding was a blueberry crisp that was absolutely delectable!
The tea kettle gets frequent use for making French press coffee, hot chocolate, and a huge assortment of teas. Everyone participates in keeping each other’s mugs full with the beverage of their choice.
Five stars for food and ambiance aboard FALKEN!
Stephanie | FALKEN Crew
PS. If you read this blog and your loved ones are onboard, please write a comment here and we’ll send them over to FALKEN! - Mia (shore support)
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Quadruple digits!
We are still headed north away from Hawaii, though today we have started to veer ever so slightly east. Speaking of miles, we hit quadruple digits today and are currently 1051 nms into our journey to Alaska. The sea state continues to calm down, and the famous North Pacific high is just out of our reach. The next few days will be a delicate dance of riding the outskirts of the high while avoiding the pesky low pressure systems that are dancing nearby. In his very wise words, we need to get north but not too far north, stay south but not too far south, continue heading east but not too far east, and avoid going west but also stay west.
The basics
Nordic Falken and her crew have been in a steady course of NNW since the departure of Hawaii. But! The good thing of all of this is that the promised land on which the high pressure lies has been getting closer and closer, meaning in a couple of days we're gonna see the wind slowly veer all the way to the South, which finally should see us easing the sails and remembering the basics of human nature all over again. The crew have been amazing and we've had everyone come around to push through fatigue, seasickness and soaking wet clothes. On another note we left the tropics a while ago and we can really feel the shift of temperature, long gone are the shorts and foulies have been the norm. Not much more apart from this, my intolerance to upwind sailing still pretty much alive but doing it with a bunch of such amazing human beings makes it worth it worthwhile.
Pacific pace
After some initial adversity, we untied our lines and left the beautiful island of O'ahu behind as we set sail north on an adventure of a lifetime. And that is exactly what we are - a family of strangers brought together by a passion for sailing and a love for the sea. The passage, while at its infancy, has delivered. The wind and seas, stars and sails all set the stage for a fantastic journey. We will see you on the other side with many stories to tell.