Christmas Boat Parade

December 21, 2006 at 11:13 am | In Fun Times, Memories | 9 Comments

Sailing SantaLast Friday Martina and I took 25 friends out on Cest La Vie, the biggest boat in our club, for a “3 hour tour.” It was our annual adventure on the bay for the Newport Beach Christmas Boat Parade.

OMG, I think every boat in Newport was out Friday night. It was chaos. Think 405 freeway, rush hour, no lines marking lanes and people parking in the middle of the road, at night. Yikes! However this year was the most stress-free for me because this boat has an electric anchor winch so I just parked us in the anchorage and we watched the parade from there. No worries. Except for the 40 foot cabin cruiser that nearly (missed us by 2 feet) backed into us.

Anyway, I’ve waited so long to post because I’ve been waiting patiently for my friend Daniel over at Snap Photography to post his pictures from the evening. Cruise over there and take a look. His photo’s are great!

We had a total of 27 people out of 31 invited on a 44 foot boat. I originally wanted to invite 40 but when I called the club and talked to the owner he really didn’t think that was too wise. He mumbled something about being really topheavy. I then got a vision of 40 people all rushing to the same side of the boat at once….oops. I’m glad I listened to him because with anymore people on board I think we would have been overcrowded. Not unsafe, just too many elbows and knees for the available cubic feet.

 I hope our club gets a 60 footer before next year! Either that or I’m gonna have to book more than one night, there are SO many more friends that I want to invite!

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  1. Ive decided im tired of missing christmas! its great seein new pics of everyone, i love and miss you guys!

    Comment by Jonathan — December 21, 2006 #

  2. Hey Son,
    We’re missing you too! Stay safe and we’ll see you when you get back.
    Love,
    Dad

    Comment by Cap'n Jim — December 21, 2006 #

  3. thanks so much Jim for having me and burgundy on the boat again! your an awesome friend!

    Comment by justin aka jrocka — December 21, 2006 #

  4. You have too many friends. Everybody loves you too much. You need to increase your “Irascibility Factor” (IF). Start being meaner. Or, do what I do. Blog something that pisses people off.

    Actually, I don’t know what I’d do without you, Jim. You have added so richly to my life. Obviously I’m not an exception, or even in the minority.

    Thanks. God Bless You.

    Comment by Les — December 22, 2006 #

  5. the pictures looked great. I really liked cruising the harbor for Heather’s bday. but, as you remember, the open sea doesn’t like me too much!

    Comment by Hale-Yeah! — December 22, 2006 #

  6. Wow!! That looks like such a great time!! How do you get on that invite list??? :) Merry Christmas!!!

    Comment by Brittney Ekberg — December 22, 2006 #

  7. Can’t begin to tell you how sad I am We missed it. STOMACH FLU IS NOT MY FRIEND!!!!

    Comment by jennita — December 23, 2006 #

  8. PICK ME! PICK ME! Love Ya! Peggy

    Comment by Peggy Brown — December 24, 2006 #

  9. I will trade you 2 pageant tickets for 2 seats next year.

    Comment by andrea armstrong — December 27, 2006 #


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