Come on, Admirals - it's a new season

[Sea Dreamer]

Have you started your sailing season yet? What are you doing to get ready? Share your tips for preparing your boat, your family and most importantly yourself for a fun filled sailing season. Wouldn't someone like to start a thread on favorite sailing destinations - what can you see and do there? (No guys, not you - this is between us women-folk! I'm sure our ideas of good sailing destinations are way different) A lot of you have children - let's talk about boating and the kids. And on a non-boating theme - I'm about to become a first time Grandma. Advice for me? Not just the Grandma's, but Mom's how do your kids' Grandma's drive you nuts? I gotta know the best ways to spoil this kid. Let's get things cooking here in the Admiral's Galley...
Clarissa

[Valerie]

Clarissa,
Nice to hear from you, I had almost given up on getting anyone to respond.. I didn't actually think that your sailing season was about to start as ours is about to finish. Although I sail all year round, we are about to enter Winter but I've heard that our winters here in Oz are not as cold as yours

We have just spent Easter sailing the gippsland lakes in Victoria, Australia... absolutely glorious weather. And hopefully I've drummed up some participants in this forum. Hopefully!

I am a Grandmother by default with 5 comming on 6 of them and Yikes!! I'm not 50 yet Great revenge on your own kids are certainly the obvious noisy , messy gifts

Come on fellow Admirals .... we need you to make this work....

Valerie

[Mrs_Skipper]

I'm new to the forum... would love to have more discussion with other ladies on Macs. I'm just getting the basics down, but I can definitely see myself thinking about decor and the like sometime in the near future.

Just starting up the season with a 3-night stay (never out for more than one night before), I found many deficiencies in my meal planning and ice stowage that didn't show up with an overnight. Mainly I rely on a lot of yummy, pre-packaged things from Trader Joe's that take up too much room in the cooler and create too much trash. I also nearly ran out of ice.

[Kelly Hanson East]

Here is an ice trick

Freeze a one-gallon jug of water into a solid block - with a decent cooler and two of these, you will get 5 days+ of 0 Centigrade performance.

(just returned from Cuttyhunk with 4 girl crew - our coolers lasted Sunday through Friday with this setup)

[Mrs_Skipper]

Gallon jugs are a MUCH better idea than the 12-oz water bottles I used!

How did the girly outing go?

[Kelly Hanson East]

Absolutely Awesome!!!

[Mrs_Skipper]

Looks like a great crew you've got there! The guests will probably remember this trip their entire lives; what a great dad you are!

[OverEasyAdmiral]

Any other "Admirals" out there? Talking "Better Halves!" Hubby spends so much time on this site, I had to see what it is all about.