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What a week!  Our thoughts go out to everyone affected by the closure of air travel in the EU especially those with stranded guests onboard.  Hopefully air travel has returned to normal and the racers can make it down to Antigua for the 43rd Antigua Sailing Week.  The start has been postponed to Sunday to [...]

Two weeks ago was Newport Restaurant Week and last week we had Part 1 of our reviews.  Check back to read our thoughts on Tallulah on Thames and the Windward Restaurant at the Hyatt.
Newport Restaurant Week happens twice a year in the Spring and Fall during the off-season.  It pulls in a local crowd.  We’ll [...]

Big thanks to all the readers of The Galley.  We greatly appreciate all of you who follow along.  Your feedback has been invaluable for upgrading The Galley.  Based on reader requests, a daily posting schedule was started in January.
Over the last year and a half, The Galley has been following my whims.  The topics [...]

Last week was Restaurant Week in Newport.  This is increasing popular off-season celebration of food includes restaurants in Jamestown, Portsmouth, Bristol and Tiverton along with Newport.  Restaurants offer special three course prix fixe menus for lunch and dinner  - you can also order from the regular menu.  The special menu prices are set at $16 [...]

While the calendar says spring, the weather has turned cooler in Newport.  The town is empty of yachties as there are two big events down south this weekend they are attending.
The first is the Palm Beach Boat Show.  Running from Thursday to Sunday, this show is similiar to Fort Lauderdale, just a bit smaller.  There [...]

Newport may be part of the two biggest sailboat racing events: Volvo Ocean Race 2011-12 and 34th America’s Cup.
Volvo Ocean Race is an around the world race with several stop-overs in major cities.  Right now only the starting city, Alicante, Spain and the first stopover, Cape Town, South Africa have been confirmed.  Newport is in [...]

On Wednesday, I had the opportunity to attend the Rhode Island Local Food Forum at Brown University in Providence.  It was a chance to mix with chefs, farmers, advocates, non-profits, government, academics, law makers and business owners with an interest in local food in Rhode Island.  After an exhausting day of seminars, roundtables and speed [...]

Yay - they have been released! This morning the Revolutionary Guard in Iran issued this statement: ”After carrying out an investigation and interrogation of the five British sailors, it became clear that their illegal entry was a mistake. After obtaining necessary guarantees, it was decided to release them.”  The broken yacht, s/v Kingdom of Bahrain, and crew [...]

While delivering s/v Kingdom of Bahrain from Bahrain to Dubai, the racing yacht possibly drifted into Iranian waters and the professional delivery crew were taken into custody on November 25th by the Iranian Navy.  This developing story broke late last night and the details are still being released.
The yacht is an Open 60 built in 2007 [...]

Meet my new co-workers: Port and Starboard - a matching pair of fancy goldfish.  This winter we’ll be staying in Newport and it gets very quiet when the yachts have left so it’s nice to have some company to enliven our office.  Right now there are only a handful of boats left wrapping up their [...]