71% of responding Hunter owners have not celebrated thanksgiving on board their boats, according to last week's Quick Quiz. Have you spent any of the winter holidays aboard? Either at the dock or at anchor? Is your boat a good place for holiday entertaining or quiet family time? Is the oven too small to handle a family gathering? Tell us what keeps you in the house!
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Mixed Emotions
The boat is on the cradle and covered for the winter. And I miss her. On the other hand I am getting caught up at home and have time to build a fire and curl up with a good book. "The Annapolis Book of Seamanship" of course. And it's nice to have time to plan the upgrades and buy the toys.
The boat is on the cradle and covered for the winter. And I miss her. On the other hand I am getting caught up at home and have time to build a fire and curl up with a good book. "The Annapolis Book of Seamanship" of course. And it's nice to have time to plan the upgrades and buy the toys.
Matter of Perspective
Every day I'm aboard is a thanksgiving to me and treated as a holiday unto itself. While I've never spent the traditional turkey day aboard, the long weekend is nice opportunity to finish the winter close-up tasks and avoid the dazed mall-bound shoppers.
Every day I'm aboard is a thanksgiving to me and treated as a holiday unto itself. While I've never spent the traditional turkey day aboard, the long weekend is nice opportunity to finish the winter close-up tasks and avoid the dazed mall-bound shoppers.
Bubbles and Squeak
We had planned to be offshore this thanksgiving past, so my wife pre-made a batch of turkey enchillatas (sp?) which could be heated up in a seaway. Our cruise was going faster than expected, however, and we found ourselves entering Morro Bay at 0330 Thanksgiving morning, bleary-eyed and ready for a layday. After a fortuitous sleep, we hiked down to a local market (why are they always at least two miles from the yacht club guest dock?) and purchased a turkey breast. With all the fixings. Stuffing. Potatoes. Gravy. Peas. Just like the land-dwellers eat, except we forgot to do the cranberry thing, a memory gaff we attribute to the 250-mile run we'd just completed. There were leftovers, of course, and the other couple we were cruising with, Brits, threw them all together in a tupperware container and called the resultant mix "bubbles and squeak." This with a straight face. Anyhow, we had bubbles and squeak the next day, once again offshore, while pointing the bow south toward Catalina Island. Yum. Once we had the hook down at the island, we treated ourselves to proper thanksgiving leftovers in the form of turkey enchillatas, albeit from a previous bird...... All in all, there's nothing like a thanksgiving cruise, although the long nights this time of year can be a nuisance. We had six harbor landings on our way to Mexico, all of them in complete darkness. Yikes.
We had planned to be offshore this thanksgiving past, so my wife pre-made a batch of turkey enchillatas (sp?) which could be heated up in a seaway. Our cruise was going faster than expected, however, and we found ourselves entering Morro Bay at 0330 Thanksgiving morning, bleary-eyed and ready for a layday. After a fortuitous sleep, we hiked down to a local market (why are they always at least two miles from the yacht club guest dock?) and purchased a turkey breast. With all the fixings. Stuffing. Potatoes. Gravy. Peas. Just like the land-dwellers eat, except we forgot to do the cranberry thing, a memory gaff we attribute to the 250-mile run we'd just completed. There were leftovers, of course, and the other couple we were cruising with, Brits, threw them all together in a tupperware container and called the resultant mix "bubbles and squeak." This with a straight face. Anyhow, we had bubbles and squeak the next day, once again offshore, while pointing the bow south toward Catalina Island. Yum. Once we had the hook down at the island, we treated ourselves to proper thanksgiving leftovers in the form of turkey enchillatas, albeit from a previous bird...... All in all, there's nothing like a thanksgiving cruise, although the long nights this time of year can be a nuisance. We had six harbor landings on our way to Mexico, all of them in complete darkness. Yikes.
Do it every year
For the last three years we have taken our three teenage kids on the boat and sailed to my in-laws 20 miles away, anchor off shore and take our tender to their house. The family has dinner, tells some fishing and hunting lies and has a good time. The kids go home via car and the wife and I sail off into the sunset, really! There is a quite secluded cove ten miles to the west of the in-laws house where we anchor, have left overs under star light and don't head back to the dock until late the next day. It great living in Florida!!
For the last three years we have taken our three teenage kids on the boat and sailed to my in-laws 20 miles away, anchor off shore and take our tender to their house. The family has dinner, tells some fishing and hunting lies and has a good time. The kids go home via car and the wife and I sail off into the sunset, really! There is a quite secluded cove ten miles to the west of the in-laws house where we anchor, have left overs under star light and don't head back to the dock until late the next day. It great living in Florida!!
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