Merry Christmas

[Bill NH]

Happy Holidays to everyone; may you know peace, good health and contentment in the coming new year.  Hope everyone has some time to spend with those who matter most to you.

[ronc98]

Happy Holidays and fair winds

R

[Gerald A. Gotts]

 :)  I'm wishing all of you a very MERRY CHRISTMAS !  Let's all try to remember the reason we celebrate this  special day ,or at least the reason we should be celebrating !!!


     Oops, gotta  go I understand NORAD has tracked Santa arriving in Florida so.......


     Jerry

[Marc]

To everyone;  Now that it is Christmas, Merry Christmas to everyone out there!  This day has become too commercialized and I think alot of us have forgotten why this day came to be.  Have fun today and love one another.  Marc

[Lynx]

     Oops, gotta  go I understand NORAD has tracked Santa arriving in Florida so.......

YEP, he's here, on the beach with all the elves for a well need vacation. rented a big house on the beach. ;D

[Tim]

Happy Holidays to everyone; may you know peace, good health and contentment in the coming new year.  Hope everyone has some time to spend with those who matter most to you.

Well Bill I waited till Christmas to slip into my new and awesome offshore boots, thanks again.

Tim

[xirii]

Just wanted to say.....


Happy Christmas!!!


And I hope everyone dreams of sailing tonight!  :D

[Pappy Jack]

Merry Christmas to one and all and may me not forget what this day is all about. Let us go and share the love and joy of a new year with all people...friend or foe.

Warm winds and fair sails,

Pappy Jack

[ThistleCap]

I just found this freshly posted on TSBB.  I don't think I've ever seen it before, but very nice.

Christmas at Sea

by Robert Louis Stevenson




The sheets were frozen hard, and they cut the naked hand/hr>
The decks were like a slide, where a seamen scarce could stand/hr>
The wind was a nor'wester, blowing squally off the sea/hr>
And cliffs and spouting breakers were the only things a-lee.

They heard the surf a-roaring before the break of day;
But 'twas only with the peep of light we saw how ill we lay.
We tumbled every hand on deck instanter, with a shout,
And we gave her the maintops'l, and stood by to go about.

All day we tacked and tacked between the South Head and the North;
All day we hauled the frozen sheets, and got no further forth;
All day as cold as charity, in bitter pain and dread,
For very life and nature we tacked from head to head.

We gave the South a wider berth, for there the tide-race roared;
But every tack we made brought the North Head close aboard:
So's we saw the cliffs and houses, and the breakers running high,
And the coastguard in his garden, with his glass against his eye.

The frost was on the village roofs as white as ocean foam;
The good red fires were burning bright in every 'long-shore home;
The windows sparkled clear, and the chimneys volleyed out;
And I vow we sniffed the victuals as the vessel went about.

The bells upon the church were rung with a mighty jovial cheer;
For it's just that I should tell you how (of all days in the year)
This day of our adversity was blessed Christmas morn,
And the house above the coastguard's was the house where I was born.

O well I saw the pleasant room, the pleasant faces there,
My mother's silver spectacles, my father's silver hair;
And well I saw the firelight, like a flight of homely elves,
Go dancing round the china-plates that stand upon the shelves.

And well I knew the talk they had, the talk that was of me,
Of the shadow on the household and the son that went to sea;
And O the wicked fool I seemed, in every kind of way,
To be here and hauling frozen ropes on blessed Christmas Day.

They lit the high sea-light, and the dark began to fall.
"All hands to loose topgallant sails," I heard the captain call.
"By the Lord, she'll never stand it," our first mate Jackson, cried.
..."It's one way or the other, Mr. Jackson," he replied.

She staggered to her bearings, but the sails were new and good,
And the ship smelt up to windward just as though she understood.
As the winter's day was ending, in the entry of the night,
We cleared the weary headland, and passed below the light.

And they heaved a mighty breath, every soul on board but me,
As they saw her nose again pointing handsome out to sea;
But all that I could think of, in the darkness and the cold,
Was just that I was leaving home and my folks were growing old.

[Pablo]

Outstanding!!! Grog for sharing!

[Bob J (ex-misfits)]

Merry Christmas everyone!

Hope you days are filled with fair winds, dry bilges & ice in the cooler

[Frank]

 Wishing everyone here a great Christmas. Pick up the phone and call someone you haven't spoken to for a while....an older friend or relative. You'll both feel better for it. Hope we all get more water time in during the new year. Have fun!!

[s/v Faith]

On a mooring off caneel bay, St. John.  Hoping to get some Christmas dinner here tomorrow.  78f, hoping to swim in a min to celebrate the sunset....

  Merry Christmas to all, go LIVE your dreams!

[Tim]

Though most I have never met in person, I am forever grateful for all my friends here, and wishing all a most Joyful Holiday Season.

[tomwatt]

A Merry Christmas and a warm breeze to all my fellow SailFarers.
Here in the mid-South, we're looking at a white Christmas with a big snowstorm on the way.
May the season bring good cheer to all... have always wondered if it would be possible to make a passable egg nog with coconut water??

[Marc]

Merry Christmas to everyone here!!!  In snowbound Iowa we are  really hitting the "grog" (blue yummies) wishinf that we were on  my boat in the carribean.  Again, Merry Christmas and God Bless to All.  Marc

[Lost Farmboy]

Merry Christmas and best wishes to all, enjoying time with family in (a not snowbound area of) Illinois.

[CharlieJ]

Merry Christmas from Houston, where it was a sunny 78 today.

But that's gonna change tomorrow!!!

[jotruk]

Merry Christmas from Clifton Tx. It is thundering and lighting now and looking at it changing to snow later to day.
We are wishing we were in the south sea's some where that's warm.

[CharlieJ]

Don't have to go to the South Seas- here's SW Florida's Charlotte Harbor's forecast

http://bbs.trailersailor.com/forums/trailersailor/index.cgi/read/855292

Of course, I HAVE been there when it was 23 degrees too :D