"Chuck Gould" wrote in message
ups.com...

I just finished assembling the calendar and events section for the Nov
1 issue.

Here in the Pacific NW we have several "lighted boat parades" (nobody
officially calls them "Christmas lights" anymore- they're now "holiday
lights"), in communities large and small.

Who else has holiday boating traditions?


My first December in Florida was the year I took the Navigator to Jupiter.
We were awaiting the closing on the house we bought and I was staying on the
boat by myself for a couple of weeks, until Mrs.E. flew down for the
closing.

One evening a bunch of people who had boats in the marina came by and
invited me to walk over to a beach on the ICW to watch the annual holiday
boat parade. It was just after dark and it was fabulous. We all sat on
beach chairs with coolers full of beer and wine coolers watching the
decorated and beautifully lit boats go by. It last for over an hour, with
fireworks and the traditional Santa in a sleigh bringing up the rear. Never
saw anything like it here in the northeast.

Eisboch