cookin the pot

Seaworthy notes from the past....not that long ago.... Fleece does not do well on the back of a quad in Resolute bay. I found this out last night. I was going ashore to meet up with a few of the crew already there. Derm said he would drop me off by the town but first had to pick up the ol man (skipper) at the oil pump house. I was about to help skipper and bacon boy (all 300 plus) in to the boat a couple of quads pulled up. At first I thought this was a couple of locals just dropping by. Speedy quads are the everyday way to get around these parts (earlier in Pangnirtung, as I awaited the boys outside the store a quad pulled up with what looked like mom, baby and grandma crammed aboard). It turned out to be the boys from the ship. They had rented (for 20 bucks) a couple of quad for an hour. One guy decided to go back to the ship so I waved the rest down and hopped aboard. Man, the dust was something else. Resolute is nothing but gravel, dirt and bald hills t...

This just popped into my head as I was reading about rice dishes....... So I was working one day slogging on painful feet as it was hour 9 with and the line was about to begin for 2nd breakfast. Someone mentioned the other line that was to the left. Shuttered and now a holding area for dishes, staff meals and odds and ends. The Dutch chief cook began to explain that at one time both lines were open and the Dutch ate from one and the Malaysians from the other. Segregated food lines on a heavy lift platform. What was interesting was that he then detailed this by stating that when he said Dutch he meant all the whites on board and Malaysian, you guessed it non white. The Americans when they came on board one trip (I guess some years ago) decided that this was not right and viola, one line now and this is where you can still see the frustrated Dutch as they have to line up to get their food with everyone else. His words. As to the rice dishes. I was reading a co...