Robbie Johnson

Male

Florida

United States

Profile Information:

Profile Type:
Sailor
Homeport:
In transit
About Me:
Live-aboard, traveling sailor. Freelance writer for variety of publications including Southwinds Magazine, The Mariner Magazine, Windcheck Magazine and Spinsheet Magazine. Partial to steel monohulls. Currently aboard a steel, gaff-rigged Tahiti Ketch. Author of the new sailing cookbook, "Gourmet Underway," a 460-page entry into the world of fine dining while at sea. No other sailor's cookbook quite like it. See the website, www.gourmetunderway.com for more.
Current location:
Anchored out on the St. Johns River in northeast Florida.
Destinations visited:
Too many to name. All of the Bahamas, greater Caribbean, Jamaica, both Atlantic and Pacific sides of Central and South America, and north as far as San Francisco. Chartered and delivered boats for a number of years based in the Panama Canal area.
Looking to:
Continuing to sail. Re-powered my Tahiti Rover with a new Westerbeke last year. Just ordered a gaff topsail, and shopping for a 3/4 oz. drifter. Added a Fortress FX16 to the ground tackle inventory, making it 5 hooks. Thinking maybe of crossing the pond and visiting the Azores. Then again, maybe just a modest gunkholer in the Bahamas. Who knows? I've found it's best to let the breeze decide.

Comment Wall:

  • LOLA

    welcome aboard Robbie...you may want to join chefs at sea group...have any more pictures?

    Jun 3, 2008

  • CruisingEditor

    Thanks for the tip and contact, Robbie. I hope we get back there sometime soon. I miss it. Got any molas left?

    Jun 4, 2008

  • Tom Ryals

    had a look-see at your gourmetunderway website. robbie, you are distinguished by humor, keenness, creativity and above all, esprit! thanks for the great example.

    my profile reveals an equally free spirit, though less robust. if any of that relates to your adventures, hit me back.

    Jul 12, 2008

  • LOLA

    I like the pictures of your boat...very well cared for, and you are living in it??? One would never know...it is so clean..good for you...Lola

    Jul 23, 2008

  • LOLA

    Robbie, I understand....go to my site to see my set up...Galley?...Well the oven and stove top are in my foot locker outside...I will use new gas grill or eat cold...For land line I use microwave, and a 2 burner,,you can see on top of my micro...I move the burner to the steps when cooking...best part I have college refrig which is bolted down...I don't even use my oven in my house..see my page....be in touch...Lola

    Jul 23, 2008

  • LOLA

    Picture of Galley..

    Jul 23, 2008

  • LOLA

    another

    Jul 23, 2008

  • LOLA

    Hi Robbie...I'm a very good cook...the elec will not work at sea...only need outside grill...or eat cold...or raw fish., which I can do.....

    Jul 23, 2008

  • LOLA

    Thank you Robbie

    Jul 23, 2008

  • svJazz

    Hey, Robbie.

    After reading your profile's "Looking to:" I'd definitely recommend heading to the Azores. My favorite landfall. I've posted a few pix of the marina in Horta.

    Howard

    Aug 2, 2008

  • svJazz

    Awsome, Robbie. We only spent 2 1/2 weeks in the Azores and only got to see Faial and Pico but we had a wonderful time. The next time I'm in Lisbon, I'll definitely check out your cannon?

    The Maramu is a 46 foot ketch built by Amel of France, one of the largest builders in Europe. Among the features that appealed to us are a deep center cockpit, stand up engine room, and hard dodger /bimini with the helm directly below and out of the weather. The refit is costing way more than we ever thought possible -- when does it not? -- but she'll be a new boat when we're done with her. I put up a Facebook site with some pictures and if you're interested, you can view them via the following links:

    http://www.new.facebook.com/album.php?aid=3504&l=995ee&id=1015036831

    http://www.new.facebook.com/album.php?aid=4986&l=b1821&id=1015036831

    I enjoyed the pix of your Tahiti Rover. She looks like a well found vessel. Is that a Monitor windvane I see off her stern? Our Monitor saved our bacon on our crossing when the autopilot packed it in the first night out of Bermuda. The new boat is a center cockpit so I'm still mulling over how to set up a servo pendulum windvane.

    Howard

    Aug 2, 2008

  • svJazz

    In my previous comment I said it looked like a Monitor, but on closer inspection it looks like an Aires...

    Aug 2, 2008