Which turned out to be a good starter overnighter for me, too, because I learned a couple things. Firstly, our shore power is great, but not for too much at once. It appears we have 20 amps from the house where the dock is, and you can't hope to run a space heater and quick heat water kettle at the same time. After blowing a circuit a couple times and tracing back to two different spots (one at the house and one at the outlet for the extension cable), I know what's what.
Luckily we brought aboard dinner--pizza and wings--so no power was needed to just eat.
The girls brought a pack of glow bendies for an instant glow party. Again no power needed. Not even an iPad battery was used! Check out the photo if you're not sure what the glow bendies are.
I also learned that trudging all my camping gear over from the shed at my house to the boat at a different house's dock isn't all that fun. So for $50 or so, I got sleeping bags that can stay aboard Hideaway. And I brought some extra clothes, too.
I tested the propane grill on the aft transom and it's working but needed a grate, so we got a new one at the hardware store. Thought I'd heat water on that, but the idea of going outside on a chilly morning isn't as nice as staying warm in the cabin. But down there we have an alcohol pressure stove and oven, which frankly intimidates the hell out of me, so I haven't yet tried it. After talking with a few people they all sound confident that we can safely use a small butane canister burner down there (with some hatches open for ventilation) so I have one of those aboard now, too.
Sleeping on the new cushions turned out good, so that was a little reinforcement of the benefit of that investment in Nov, too. The girls fell asleep at 9, and were up at 5:15 (maybe it was the crew teams going by), but that's cool since I never sleep past 5 or so anyway.
A good first overnighter. Now I cannot wait to shove off and do this for real somewhere else.
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