It’s amazing the kind of gifts that excite you when you live on a boat.
Before we bought a boat and started cruising, I received the normal Christmas
gifts…jewelry, perfume, lingerie and an array of things for the house. A few
Christmases ago…before we started our incredible adventure; I received
binoculars and an inflatable life jacket. My friends were not impressed! The
binoculars have been used everyday…luckily I haven’t needed the life jacket.
This Christmas we both received items that we will make cruising a little safer
and easier and happy hour a little happier.
One thing I haven’t liked about living aboard was the lack of ice. We
have a small freezer and there has never been room for more than one ice
tray…well there’s room for more than one tray, but we do need to have room for
food too. You can’t live on margaritas alone!
Santa (Stan) brought me a portable icemaker…I’m so excited. Life will be
better this summer…I’m from the south and I love LOTS of ice in my drinks. Ice
tea isn’t ice tea with out a lot of ice!
Stan’s big gift is a new radar with multi-function-display
(chartplotter, depthsounder, etc.), The
Pearl came with an old radar that we used a few time…mostly just to see if
it would work if we needed it, and it did fine until this fall. About the time
we decided we wanted to go to Maine next summer the radar quit working…I guess
it didn’t want to be responsible for our safety on that trip! Stan’s new toy is
on order and he will install it when we return to the boat…I’ll do a post on
that when it we get back to Charleston.
The beautiful new addition to our boat.
