Chef Annie Mahle's Life at Sea

"The sun has barely crested the calm, rippling horizon off the coast of Maine as chef/co-captain Annie Mahle sits in the galley of her wooden schooner with a yellow legal pad, enjoying the silence. She rises each morning at around 4:30 a.m. to plan her day and to stoke the miniscule galley's wood-burning stove—a squat, chrome-accented antique she's named Lucy. The wood-beamed ceiling is low and stuffed with maps and nautical charts, with light filtering in through small windows. Soon the crew will be tending to the manifold needs of the vessel under the watchful eye of Mahle's husband/co-captain Jon Finger, while she and her assistants prepare for a day of cooking and hospitality." - Jacob Dean