Food and Accomodations
Delicious Down East Maine Food For Your Windjammer Cruise
Both Annie Mahle of the J & E Riggin, and the Timberwind's
Dawn Tassi offer extraordinary shipboard dining. Specializing in "Down
East" cuisine as a feature of your windjammer cruise.
Dawn is sure to satisfy the heartiest of appetites with meals cooked with care
on a wood stove, featuring home made soups and chowders, fresh salads, baked
breads from scratch, tender roasts, pie, and strawberry shortcake. On each
cruise she prepares an old-fashioned New England lobster bake, with Maine
lobster steamed beneath mounds of seaweed along with corn on the cob and all
the fixings.
Annie Mahle prepares succulent old world foods cooked with fire and passion on
the ships cast iron wood stove. Insisting on only the highest quality
ingredients, meals are laced with fresh vegetables and herbs from her garden.
Curried lamb and lentil stew served with a spinach salad and an almond honey
dressing, caramelized onion bread, pies or pumpkin ginger cheesecake, are just
a few of the menu items offered in addition to the traditional New England
lobster bake prepared and served on a local island once every cruise.
Captain Annie and Dawn create shipboard meals that are deliciously satisfying,
hearty and healthy and perfectly complement your adventure on these
historic windjammers.
Comfortable Accommodations on our Maine Windjammers
The schooners J & E Riggin and Timberwind are traditional
historic windjammers, and after being refit for passenger service, offer cozy but
comfortable cabins for their guests. Each cabin is supplied with fresh water
and basins, glasses, soap, crisp linens, warm woolen blankets and towels. Every
cabin has a window or porthole for fresh air and light, and 12-volt electric
cabin or bunk lights. Marine heads (toilets) are easily accessible on or below
decks, and on deck hot freshwater showers are available.
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For more information, visit our schooner websites:
Schooner J & E Riggin | Schooner
Timberwind
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