Cooking a meal at sea!

Cooking a meal at sea can be an adventure! The boat is moving all the time and you have to time your moves to assure the coffee goes into the cup and not on the floor. Cooking on a gimballed stove can be fun, too! The stoves stays level at all times but can swing wildly and that may be away fromn you, just when you tried to lift the pot off the stove. For that and many more reasons, it is very important to use a "butt belt" as shown in the photo. This device helps you staying in place. It does not guarantee that everything stays put. You still must be very careful when you work in the galley! A gimballed stove is great because it stays level but it does not save you from the coffee pot jumping out at you when the boat lurches sideways. This happened to me, yesterday, when I brewed some morning coffee. Luckily,I caught the pot and was able to keep it from shattering on the floor. My T-shirt got soaked with coffee, however, and it is now a working tee, when appearances do not matter.