Welcome aboard Sally Jenyns!

Welcome aboard Sally Jenyns. Hailing from a famous boating family, and extremely experienced and well-travelled aboard boats, Sally will be writing a regular column for our websites boatsales.com.au and BoatPoint.com.au. Watch this space.

We are fortunate to have this depth of boating knowledge to add to our expanding expert contributor team covering all facets of boating.

Sally's Galley, as the new column will be known, will share Sally's rich experiences and life lessons from years of boating along the Great Barrier Reef and beyond.

Sally will tell everything you need to know about on-board cooking, trailerboat cooking and camping meals, quick and impressive fish recipes, long-term provisioning, cruising and boating tips, fish preparation, and more, all interspersed with great anecdotes from her time living aboard.

THE FAMOUS JENYNS FAMILY
Sally is one of those fortunate people whose career has enabled her to follow her great loves of fishing, cooking and travel. The direction her life has taken is not surprising considering her salty childhood — family weekends and holidays spent fishing and fossicking in the waters of Moreton Bay (S/E Qld).

Her father, Ron Jenyns, triple yachting Olympian and master fisherman, and grandfather Ian Gall, cartoonist, author and nature journalist, gave Sally a passion for the sea and the great outdoor sport of fishing from a young age. Sally's brothers also share this love of boating and fishing.

In 1988, having completed a Diploma of Business in Hospitality Management, Sally began working as a chef on luxury charter vessels along the Queensland coastline. Subsequently her work has taken her to exotic ports around the globe including the United States, the Mediterranean, the Bahamas and Brazil. In 1990 she crossed the Pacific Ocean, from Cairns to Mexico, spending five months in Tahiti en route.

SOUTH PACIFIC II
Through her Twenties, there were many years where Sally spent more time at sea than on land, often with her father on his well-known motorcruiser South Pacific II.

Much loved along Australia’s eastern seaboard, South Pacific II is a 73-foot Norman Wright-built wooden vessel, run as a charter operation for much of her 40 years with the Jenyns family.

Sally jokes that "she was the sister I didn’t have, the other girl in the family, and she certainly developed my love of the ocean, my love of sportfishing, and my future career."

Sally’s father Ron was one of the founding anglers who explored the northern Great Barrier Reef for the now famous black marlin fishing grounds and South Pacific II, one of the original motherships used by game fisherman allowing them to stay out on the continental shelf, around 40 NM offshore.

The Cairns black marlin fishing season is considered the pinnacle of luxury adventure fishing holidays, and Sally has spent many of those seasons cooking for local and international anglers. In fact, if the fish aren’t biting the food and mothership experience becomes especially important!

SOME ONBOARD LORE
"Provisioning for ‘the season’ requires loads of fish recipes and calculations, such as 12 eggs/day, so 12 x 72 = 864 = 72 dozen eggs!" Sally says, having cooked a few in her time.

But did you know that Vaseline rubbed over porous eggshells extends their life by a month or so? Or that eggs will stay fresh out of the fridge for a month, as long as they were never refrigerated? Hey, these are just some of a galley slave’s tricks Sally has up her sleeve and will share with us in coming columns.

SUCCESSFUL AUTHOR AND PRESENTER
During years of shipboard life, Sally started writing about her enviable lifestyle. In 1995, she released My Funky Fishing Book. This children’s how-to-fish manual went on to sell over 25,000 copies.

Sally’s television career began in 1996 as the seafood cook on Seven Queensland’s popular saltwater-lifestyle program Brownie’s Coastwatch. ?Her first cookbook Fishing and Feasting sold 20,000 copies over that summer. For six years, Sally worked on all of Seven’s local programs including Great South East, and Queensland Weekender while publishing another two cookbooks, The Coastwatch Cookbook and Easy Eats for Lazy Weekends, which continue to sell strongly.

Sally has been a presenter on the Seven Network’s Creek to Coast since its inception in 1999, and continues to catch and cook seafood for viewers in Queensland and nationally on 7TWO.

Sally lives on the Sunshine Coast with her husband and two sons.

Cooking Highlights
>> Days spent filming with English seafood chef Rick Stein while he was visiting Noosa, and subsequently cooking in his 1999 BBC production, Seafood Odyssey.
>> Book sales restricted to the Queensland market of over 80,000 and counting.

Fishing Highlights
>> 350kg Black Marlin tagged and released on No. 10 Ribbon Reef, North Queensland
>> Six Black Marlin between 60kg and 130kg, tagged and released in one day, off the Gold Coast, QLD    

Photo Credit: Photo of South Pacific II by Sally's brother Peter Jenyns from Professional Boat Care.