healhustler
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- Oct 2, 2009
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- Location
- USA
- Vessel Name
- Bucky
- Vessel Make
- Krogen Manatee 36 North Sea
Just wondering how many of you are actually preparing Thanksgiving dinner aboard this year. All the trimmings?
Not this year, unfortunately, but we have in the past out in the islands on several occasions. Well, I should say my wife has. I don't cook.
She's made a full dinner-- turkey, yams, corn pudding, etc, etc, etc. using the Force 10 range (stove top/oven/broiler) we had installed a week after receiving the boat in 1998 to replace the original, leaking Magic Chef.
Sometimes she's done this for just the two of us, but a few years when we had good friends who lived on Sucia Island in the San Juans she made dinner for us and them, which included their two daughters.
She's also made a full Christmas dinner for the same group on a couple of occasions. A big prime rib using the "guaranteed perfect results" method she learned from her best friend years ago, and all the stuff that goes with it.
One Christmas we were at the island to host dinner for our friends and a storm blew in on the 25th. The waves were cresting and breaking in Fossil Bay to the point where I couldn't take the dog ashore in the Livingston even though we were only about 100 yards from it. So in the interests of safety, to say nothing of the fact the boat was pitching up and down something fierce, we postponed dinner until the next day.
The only thing my wife found is that because the Force 10's oven doesn't have near the insulation that her oven at home does (until the other year the house had an all electric range; we have replaced that with a duel fuel range) oven timings have to be increased some.
We are onboard as I type having just finished a big Turkey dinner-not cooked by us but by Whole Foods-really a great deal. Dinner for 8 for less than $150, just heat and eat. Have two mothers-in-law on board, 91 and 93 who really enjoy seeing the Seattle skyline from the boat. Will be back at the dock early, 7 or so, but the family will have had a great time. To quote Wifey B "We have a lot to be freakin' thankful for"