What sailing stuff did you get for Christmas/Chanukah/holiday you celebrate?

[labatt]

My wife made me an incredible quilt based on a picture I took of the Burlington VT harbor. It will be for our next boat to remind us of our original cruising grounds. I'll get a pic of it up shortly. Other than that, only a few small odds and ends as we're trying to get rid of all of our stuff for our trip in 2009!

What did you get?

[Jim H]

Our main sailing gifts this year are experience-related. My wife and I both sprung for 13 weeks of evening RYA Dayskipper courses starting in January, followed by a week-long Channel Island cruise/course (for her) in May, and a week-long Brittany cruise (for me) in June.

Jim H
London, UK

[teshannon]

Got a lot of great books and a radar trainer CD.

[Jim H]

One other thing-- we hope to go take a close look at a Malo 38 this weekend. I imagine that could be a rather nice Christmas present, if it ended up in our hands...

Jim H
London

[labatt]

Originally Posted by Jim H

One other thing-- we hope to go take a close look at a Malo 38 this weekend. I imagine that could be a rather nice Christmas present, if it ended up in our hands...

I was rather hoping to wake up this morning and find a 54' sailboat on my front lawn... oh well...

[teshannon]

Did you look out back?

[Melrna]

Pair of Gill full finger racing gloves! No boat in front or backyard either.

[Robby Barlow]

The only sailing related thing I got was Wind.

[alecs123]

I got a Nautica foul weather jacket.. very nice... form my wife
But I plan to treat myself in january with a handheld VHF, a GPS and the gear needed to fix up my boat's trailer...
Happy Hollidays for everyone...

[SEMIJim]

I received a Casio Sea Pathfinder wrist-watch and a ball-cap with our sail club's name and logo on the front . Sailing-related things I gave her: A long-sleeved white polo shirt with our club's name and logo on it and a TomTom One GPS for her car. (I call the latter "sailing-related" cuz she became a GPS believer only after seeing what the Garmin does on our boat .)

This Sea Pathfinder is way cool. Very large, which makes it very easy to read at a glance. Settable count-down timers that can be configured to either reset and re-start after each count-down or automatically start stop-watch timing. I think the former would be very handy on a commitee boat when there are multiple starts and the latter terrific if you're racing. As for losing it over-board: I guess anything's possible, but this thing has a resin wrist-strap the width of a small belt .

Sounds like the rest of you got some pretty nice loot, too .

Jim