Corinthians Annual Cruise 2025: Maine

Salty Pot Contest

2025 Salty Pot Contest

Date: 4 August 2025

Location: HR Abel Yacht Yard; Boat Shed (where catered dinner held).

Time: 1700 hrs

Instructions: Bring Your Own Beverages

Salty Pot Contest

Appetizer Rules

• Dazzle your fellow Corinthians with your favorite on-board appetizer.

• Bring it ashore displaying your creations's title and contents on a 3 x 5 card.

• Do Not put your yacht name on the card.

• Everyone will have an opportunity to taste an vote on your entry

• Voting will be by Vote Tickets given to each Yacht, one vote/ticket per crew aboard
• Each Yacht will be given a consecutively numbered series of red paper theater-style Vote Tickets - one for each person aboard up to 6. . [Located in Swag Bag, Composition Book]
• The Skipper distributes the tickets amongst Crew per whim or threat.
• The ideal is each Cruise Participant gets to vote for the appetizer they deem most appealing to them
• To Vote, a Vote Ticket is deposited in the covered opaque 16-oz cup for each appetizer — each cup will have a different number for identification at tally time.
• When grazing is complete, the Vote Cups will be collected and Vote Tickets tallied.
• Winner will be the appetizer that collected the most Vote Tickets

The Salty Pot Award is awarded for the best “offshore” recipe.  A winning recipe is one which yields excellent results and is judged to be relatively easy to prepare in the galley while at sea in what could be described as adverse conditions.

Annual Cruise 2024 Salty Pot Contenders

The Salty Pot Reappears!

After a mysterious absence of two years, the (in)famous Salty Pot Award Trophy again turned up at a Corinthian Annual Cruise in 2024!

AND

It has been transformed! Peggy D'Alessandro managed to find a way to bring back the copper luster to the Salty Pot after years of trying by many other recipients. It now glows… And it revealed a surprise.



A Bit of History

When the Salty Pot was finally polished. Very fine-line engravings were revealed. They trace back to the very first Salty Pot award - then called the Corinthian Gourmet Gam Award.

Inscriptions on the Salty Pot Award
Trophy

Corinthian Gourmet Gam Award

1988
Offshore Muffins
Brooke Davis

1989
Mystery Muffins
Ginny Martin

1990
Peanut Butter Bites
Shirley Shulimson

1992
Nutty Cheese Bars
Ellen Wenis

1993
Hot Clam Dip
Maureen Forster

1995
Sea Dogs Shrimp
Jan Hodnett

2003
Maharashtrian
Kolhapuri Kombdi Murgh
Helene de Neergaard
Sea Bounty
Tulinda Larsen

Note: Kolhapuri Murgh (Murgh = Chicken) is a spicy and mouth-watering chicken curry from the Indian state of Maharashtra…;