What's your best Thanksgiving on a boat? and what's your plans this year..

[Jaxfishgyd]

We got everyone to bring the sides, then deep fried 2 turkeys at the dock (DO NOT knock deep fried turkeys if you never tried it).. Then we all loaded up on the boat and had dinner while cruising on the St Johns River... Classic use of a Hatteras

This year we rented a big cabin in the Blue Ridge Mountains so our daughter & family from Florida will drive up while our son/Family will drive in from Nashville..

 

[Robby]

Looks like Radar and I will fly the 172 up to The Shoales on Wensday.Brenda and her sister are in Gatlenberg Ten Now just goofing off. So we will have a fried Turkey Turkey Thursday and then I'll meet her and Radar at the Boat in Demopolis for the weekend.Might even have some of the Liquid Turkey too!!!! Happy Thanksgiving ;Our thought to the HOFFERS in the NE

 

[GJH]

The weather is working against us as of the latest forecast, but we are hoping to spend a third Thanksgiving anchored in Silverlake Harbor, Ocracoke. Ann cooks a full dinner with all the fixin's very year, even if it is just the two of us. My favorite was while anchored out in Walburg Creek in Georgia, where spent a few days cooking, eating, napping and exploring:

Ocracoke:

 

[magnawake]

My Gosh !! what a spread. Plus the scenery. WOW !! Yall know how to throw down a meal. Unfortunatley we wont be on the boat for the holidays.

 

[holtcl]

Great Pics! This will be our sixth Thanksgiving dinner on the boat. I can't believe how the time has gone by. It's about my favorite holiday and I cherish the opportunity to share it with my parents.

So much to be thankful for.

Cheryl
Cinderella
1971 53MY

 

[Boatnut]

Great pictures, what time is dinner? LOL

Thanksgiving is always a special day here. Being with family, good food, of course a super nap, then just relaxing. It doesn't get any better. As for Thanksgiving on the boat, everyone gets better than the last, hard to pick a favorate.

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone, say a special prayer for our troups, and remember now matter how tough we think things are, there is always someone less fortunate.

Jane and Craig

 

[lumina]

Hi All,

Unfortunately we're always shrink wrapped and on the hard by November so my best thanksgiving on the boat would have to be year 2 when we had "Indian Summer" weather that week and we were able to crawl around the bilge and get some things done.

George.....you're a lucky man,,,,beautiful boat, beautiful significant other, beautiful meal.....WOW.

Thanks Robby.

Cheryl get a few extra hugs in if you can. I miss my dad.

Jane and Craig I hope you don't mind me plagiarizing.......but "Happy Thanksgiving to everyone, say a special prayer for our troops, and remember no matter how tough we think things are, there is always someone less fortunate".....and let me add treasure the people we love and who love us and God Bless the USA.

 

[Jaxfishgyd]

We can see St Mary's from the end of our marina.. they have had a HUGE thanksgiving dinner for cruisers for years.... "One year" I keep saying I want to go there..
But as Thanksgiving is my FAVORITE holiday of the year.....
Being with my family (two kids, one daughter in law, one son in law and 7 grandkids)...is way too important......

 

[Artzco]

We can see St Mary's from the end of our marina.. they have had a HUGE thanksgiving dinner for cruisers for years.... "One year" I keep saying I want to go there..
But as Thanksgiving is my FAVORITE holiday of the year.....
Being with my family (two kids, one daughter in law, one son in law and 7 grandkids)...is way too important......

We live in St Marys and have helped serve boaters on Thanksgiving and it was very gratifying to help and share with fellow boaters. This year we're heading West to be with my son and his wife before he heads to Afghanistan & celebrate Thanksgiving and Christmas.

 

[Avenger]

The boat's still in the hurricane hole. I haven't had time to go collect it and word is there's a sunken boat blocking the canal anyway.

So since we've got the only habitable house in the family right now, we'll be hosting this year. My Aunt and cousins usually host and will still do most of the cooking. They've done deep fried in the past which was good, but more recently they've been doing smoked turkey. We think it's better than fried and it only takes about two hours. So the smoker will be in my driveway and we'll all be thankful that things weren't worse.

 

[Spellbound]

Best: At Flamenco Marina, Panama City, Panama. We left Mid November from Stuart FL (72' Jim Smith) to Jamaica, to Shelter Bay, Colon Panama, transited the canal, finally tied up in a slip knowing we were not going to make it home for Thanksgiving. The next day another boat (sportfisher) told us to bring side dishes, they had the turkey and we would Buffet style aboard their boat. What a magicial afternoon/evening with new found friends, a great meal in a stunning setting.

This year: Son is here, Daughter & boyfriend arrive tomorrow from NYC. Tuesday & Wednesday boating around Cayo Costa, Useppa, Boca Grande area. Turkey day Thursday, FSU/Gators Saturday. Go Noles!

 

[geofish]

I'm hauling out at 7 am on thursday... going for a complete paint job, 2 transmission overhauls and some modifications on the bunks I should end up with a really pretty boat when it's all said and done.

Fried Turkeys... I bought 2 and want to fry one. My wife says it's to dangerous I want to do it anyways I have a cement advice?

Happy Thanksgiving to all, I may not post much here but I do concider you all my friends, you solve many of my problems with your posts and give me a nice warm fuzzy feeling about having a Hatteras. Cheers! Everyone

 

[Timm]

We are in-between boats now :-( but last year we spent turkey day on board Champagne Jam at her dock in the delta and then cruised (about 5 hour trip) over to San Francisco for the weekend.

Picture of the boat is at Pier 39 (all of the shops in the background) and that's Alcatraz way out in the background in the last photo.

Surge was so bad on Saturday it broke a 3/4" spring line in the middle of the night. That was exciting - not!

 

[Timm]

One final SF picture aboard Champagne Jam from last Thanksgiving. This is the sun rising over the SF Bay Bridge getting underway upon clearing the Pier 39 breakwater to return back to the delta at o-dark-thirty.

As a point of reference: SF would be on the right of the bridge. That's Yerba Buena Island in the middle of the picture with Treasure Island to its left.

 

[Freeebird]

Happy Thanksgiving, everybody. Sunrise over a 53C from the bridge of a 55C at Clearwater Municipal where the boy and I are hanging out a few days. Getting ready to head to Winter Haven to share Thanksgiving with family.

 

[Angela]

I've only had a boat were I could prepare and serve such a dinner for 6.5 years now, so there aren't many boat Thanksgivings under my belt, but I think the best boat one I've had had to be the one I did at Rickenbacker Marina about 4 years ago where I invited all of the liveaboards and others in the marina who were there by themselves whose boats were big enough to do a Thanksgiving dinner (lots of sailboaters), as well as the few marina personnel who had to work that day (the guard at the gate). I had lots of folks onboard for dinner at various times throughout the day. I remember one guy who lived out on the mooring by himself being sick with the flu that day and he didn't want to be around others for fear of giving them the flu, so I made him a to-go plate and that he picked up as he passed by on his dinghy on the way back to this boat. I really enjoy making a big meal like that for people whether they are close family and friends or mere acquaintances just passing through.

Today, with the boat still a complete mess with all the projects I have going on (still working on the AC, and in the midst of the last vacuflush install, and with the 5 windshield panels coming out in the morning for rebedding), there is no way I can do dinner here this time. So, I'm going over to Debra's house and have dinner with her and the Mermaid (that'd be "Hatteras Part No. 36 Long" for those of you who know that one - LOL) after I get a little bit of boat work done this morning.

I say this every year, but hopefully, NEXT Thanksgiving, I'll be making a turkey out on the hook down by Pumpkin Key.

Enjoy the day everyone!!!

 

[Jaxfishgyd]

Geofish.. Been deepfrying turkeys for 25 + years. Easy & great tasting. But you want to do several as the price of peanut oil is bigh. I have NO PROBLEM getting others to buy turkeys (I usually charge them a 6 or 12 pack)

 

[Nonchalant1]

Far Away from everything, no cell phones, no other boats, 50 miles from civilization, anchored at Bashi Creek on the Tombigbee River. Kathy cooked a full Thanksgiving dinner including a pecan pie and a chocolate moose pie. Yum