Letters
Congratulations!
To Anacortes Yacht Club for a great event.
And to the CCM prepared boats in the
The key to enjoying this gift from the sea is a fast
blanch. Have a large pot of boiling hot water ready. Use Northern Century:
tongs to quickly dip each piece for a few seconds. Two
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things will happen - the slime coating will disappear
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and the leaf will magically change color from brown to
bright green, the reason being that there are two types of
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chlorophyll in the leaves, brown and green. The brown
vanishes in the heat. No further cooking is needed, just cut
into 4-inch portions and refrigerate for up to a week.
Take the blanched leaf and add a bit of smoked salmon
and a small ball of rice, roll it up, dip in some soy sauce and
enjoy. The flavor is mild and there is a satisfying squeak on
Counter Current Marine
your teeth. This is a tremendously healthy and satisfying The Premier Rigging and Sailing
food and is good for the digestion. Another way to serve
Yacht Service Company of Anacortes
kelp is in an Asian style salad - Julienne the leaves and
add some Ponzu sauce and toasted sesame seeds. Creative
Complete Rigging Services
cooks will find many ways to serve fresh kelp leaves.

Refits • Consultation
Jim Gordon
Koan 3 Yacht Management Services
Anacortes
360-250-6895
We’ll have to try it. We usually avoid recipes that have the www.CCMRigging.com
words, “slime coating,” in them. But, when you look at a shrimp,
it really doesn’t look like something you’d like to stick in your
mouth either.
Did They Make It? Following Boats Going
Through the Northwest Passage
I have been following the voyage of Ocean Watch
through the Northwest Passage. My question is, what
happened to the group of sailboats that were at Gjoa
Haven waiting for the ice to retreat. Ocean Watch passed
through Bellow Strait but there was no mention of the
other sailboats and if they made it or not.
John L.
We forwarded your inquiry to the Around the Americas
team on Ocean Watch, and they sent back this report.
“Both Silent Sound and Baloum Gwen made it through
the NW Passage, a couple weeks behind us. As far as we
know, there were nine boats attempting the NW Passage
this year; the three going eastward including us, and a
half dozen going west. It looks like all nine are going to
successfully make it. This will make the third straight year
that sailboats made it through, though this year was icier
than the last two.”
To follow the voyage of Ocean Watch as she
circumnavigates North and South America as if it were one big
island, to assess the health of our oceans, click on the Around the
Americas logo, at www.48north.com.
48° No r t h , oc t o b e r 2009 Pa g e 11
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