How Are You Going to Spend New Year's Eve?

I'll be hosting about 40-50 people at my house. I have an open house from 3PM-midnight. I always have the New Years Eve party at my place. A make a HUGE pot of cioppino (I finished the base for it tonight), 2 peking ducks, some misc. appetizers etc. Joyce makes her "famous" dungeness crab dip and some veggie platters and people drop in and out throughout the day. Pat - if you want to run up to the N. end early in the day, I can run down and pick you and Patty (and whoever else might be with you) at the Logboom Park docks and run you up to my house for a quick snack and drink. I'll PM you my cel number.
 
Got it, thanks - not sure how early we will be getting out, our goal is to be launched before dark. Will give you a call just for the heck of it though!


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I'll be hosting about 40-50 people at my house. I have an open house from 3PM-midnight. I always have the New Years Eve party at my place. A make a HUGE pot of cioppino (I finished the base for it tonight), 2 peking ducks, some misc. appetizers etc. Joyce makes her "famous" dungeness crab dip and some veggie platters and people drop in and out throughout the day. Pat - if you want to run up to the N. end early in the day, I can run down and pick you and Patty (and whoever else might be with you) at the Logboom Park docks and run you up to my house for a quick snack and drink. I'll PM you my cel number.
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We'll be anchored in the Laguna Madre... watch the sun go down, grill some steaks, then watch the fireworks display off South Padre Island to ring in the New Year. The Wallas won't be necessary - the high today is supposed to be 77º with a sunny sky. A cold front is due to move in overnight, so the Wallas might be called into duty by morning.

Unlike many places with fireworks displays over the water, we rarely see a lot of boat traffic congestion. The bigger excursion boats will be full of partiers, but they will be in the channel. Most people will be watching from the shore. We've had a variety of interesting experiences ringing in the New Year at anchor - from hot and muggy to crystal clear, to cold and breezy, to fog so thick we could barely see the bow of the sailboat.

One of the most amazing times was in our trimaran: it was warm and I left the companionway open for some flow-through. During the night, I felt the breeze come in through the companionway and relished the cool... until I sat upright and said to myself, "Why is the wind coming from the stern???" The tide shift was stronger than the slight breeze, and turned us. Everything was still fine when I went to the cockpit... and it looked like a dream sequence surrounding us: there was a slight fog, a nearly full moon, and several dolphins were slowly swimming around us. I sat out there for about a half hour, taking it all in. We've had some wonderful times at anchor, but nothing that has eclipsed that particular experience.

I call New Year's Eve "amateur night": too many people having too much to drink at too many parties. No crowds or crazies where we choose to anchor... rarely another boat in sight. A nice way to ring in the New Year. We'll raise a glass to our C-Brat friends.

Happy New Year,
Jim & Joan
 
We're going to spend it at home, as we usually do, but we will actually stay up 'til midnight to see in the new year -- and toast to our last year at WORK! Yipppeeeeee!

Caty
 
Hoping to get out on Lake Washington for some fireworks, it's a zoo out there but a fun one. Can you see the fireworks from Andrews bay? I know its on the other side but just curious. After that we'll either anchor out somewhere or head back to the launch or maybe even just go tie up at home.

Sark
 
Probably will be in bed, nursing a nasty cold that is gradually getting better.

Happy New Year, everyone! :cocktail :clock :cocktail :clock :cocktail
 
We will be with family, in our lakeshore place in Colorado, with a fire crackling, snow all around, hot toddies for adults and hot spiced cider for kids, watching the festivities as the ball drops in Times Square -- then we'll trundle to bed (an advantage of being two time zones west).
Christmas Eve, we were in a cabin, in the high lonesome of the Gore Range in Colorado. Place is accessed by 4X4 and by foot, with essentials hauled up by bobsled from the truck below. We shared the long weekend with two of our kid's families -- singing carols, making cookies for Santa, and watching the snow swirl around the icicles draping off the roof corners. Christmas dawned at -24 and snowing. Kids were skidding down the slope outside the cabin that afternoon in still-minus tempts and loving it.
 
So we may be back ON for Andrews Bay, see the Batteries Again / Still thread, it would probably take a launch in the dark again, and I am not sure if we are up to that...Patty is visiting her Mom, we'll make the call when she gets home.
 
We plan to celebrate Newfoundland New Year. Newfoundland is the furthest east you can go and still be technically in North America, so the new year reaches there first. They have their own time zone, Newfoundland Standard Time (NST), which is 2 and a half hours ahead of us in CST. So here you can celebrate Newfoundland New Year at 9:30 and get to bed at a reasonable hour. As an added bonus. Newfoundland is celebrating the Viking Millennium in 2008 to commemorate the first landings of the Vikings in North America. So get out your horned helmet, celebrate Newfoundland New Year, and get to bed early! Here's the Newfoundland countdown link.

http://www.timeanddate.com/counters/newyear.html?p0=175

Unfortunately they are having a bad New Year's Eve snow storm in Newfoundland and many festivites have been canceled, but that's what they get for being the hood ornament of the continent.

Happy New Year!

Mike
 
Susan and I just got back from fishing hat island, calm seas and sunny, but cold day. No fish to the boat but one take down and one hook up that got off due to a tangle of gear. he swam around the other downrigger ball on the way up.
 
Today was a beautiful day to be on the water. What a perfect last day of 2007. :hot I will be at home tonight celebrating, but I would love to be anchored out somewhere. Maybe next year. Happy New Year to all C-Brats. :cocktail Robbi
 
We'll be leaving soon for a small party with friends. Nothing wild, mind you, but always great hors d'ouvres. We'll be home before midnight to watch the fireworks from the Space Needle on ch 5.

Happy New Year to you too Robbi and to all the other C-Brats too.
 
Well, we made it to Andrews Bay! I am feeling OK about our electrical situation, batteries are showing a full charge and here we are! Got launched at dusk, ran here about 14 knots, two other boats anchored up. Just finished a game of gin rummy, beginner's luck or something, I won! Patty is knitting, I found a free wireless connection floating over the water! It is awesome here, we both love this place! Tomorrow I will take Baxter ashore in the dinghy, tonight he has to hold it! Don't know if we can make it to midnight, but we are going to try! Not Newfie midnight, either!
 
We're home with the whole family (three dogs and a cat, that is) getting ready to watch a movie. Had Chinese dinner on the way home from work. Just about ready for left overs. I told Don I was willing to go out in the boat for the night . . . problem is it's still on the trailer in the drive, so the house is a better idea! We try to stay out of the way of all the other revelers out there.

Happy New Year all!

Don and Dee
 
Don here on our wireless hub Dee installed. :D We are both posting at the same time. How pathetic on New Years Eve. :shock: (but safe) 8) Happy New Year to the Brats. Dee suggested we sleep on the boat in the driveway tonight and she says we need TWO MOKAIS!!! WOO HOO!! :beer :cocktail :beer :cocktail :beer

What color do you want Dee? Dee would like blue.... I would like a yellow mokai....

Be safe Brats,

Don
 
Well, home safe and sound from New Year's Eve at Andrews Bay...I fell asleep at 9:00 p.m., natch, Patty got me up in time to see the fireworks at midnight! Had a fine New Year's Day there too! Baxter duty at 6:00 a.m., back in the sack afterwards, a nice if boring breakfast of bacon, eggs and hash browns, then Pat, Patty and Baxter took a two mile walk around the Seward Park trail loop...VERY nice! Back to the boat, I rowed the dinghy around the bay a bit, over to a Camano Troll 31 anchored up nearby, chatted awhile from the dinghy, they invited me aboard. Turns out they are from the next town up the road from us (Duvall). Back on Daydream, nice little lunch, a round of gin rummy (Patty kicked butt this time), and then we pulled anchor and headed back to 40th Street. All WOULD have been perfect, but as we were retrieving one of the trailer tires went flat. :cry: Guess who failed to throw the spare and the jack in the new Titan. :cry Unhooked, over to Target, bought some Fix-a-Flat and a little 12 volt tire pump. Good enough to get us home.
 
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