I had a great time hosting a
Christmas party on my boat in the Christmas Lighted Boat parade. Friday night I had 4 CF members I had never met join a couple of buddies of mine. There was 3 guys from Pullman Wa that are in a sailing club there with Eaglemac, they took turns wearing the Santa suit standing on the bow with my
mast spotlight on them waving to the crowds of folks. Nia a CF
member brought her
camera and got lots of pic's I hope. The parade course was about 12 miles up stream and back to the marina, there must have been thousands of folks lining the park shore line all the way along the parade
route. We were the only
sail boat much less
catamaran in the parade. On Sat night we had CF moderator Janet H and husband (who played Santa all evening ) and one of there friends also Nia a CF
member joined us again and another sailor couple from up the Yakima valley I got to know in the
San Juan Islands. We had a little problem with my throttle control the shift handle came completely off because the screw that holes it all together had come unscrewed, so another boat towed us for about 30 min while Santa took apart the control and used one of the housing screws and put it back together and

we were able to
power on our own back in to the marina

. There was a party at the Clover Island Yacht Club about 100 yards from our slip and we all got hot drinks and munchies and an
award plak for participating

Merry Christmas to all.