Boxing Day

Today was Boxing Day. Actually this year, being that it falls on Saturday, the official day will be celebrated on Monday, and most businesses will be closed. A Google search turned up these origins of this holiday. "In olden days, merchants would give their servants gifts of food and fruit, packed in boxes, on Boxing Day. In feudal times, the lord of the manor would give boxes of tools, cloth, grains and other essentials to the serfs who live on his land, on Boxing Day. In olden days, servants reporting for work after Christmas would carry a box and their employers would put in coins, as end-of-year gifts, into the boxes."

Traditionally, the Hope Town Sailing Club holds a cruising boat race on this, the day after Christmas. New Horizon was the committee boat, and there were four of us from the race committee, plus the club photographer on the boat. The weather threatened to be stormy, but the t-storms didn't materialize and we had light winds and a really nice day out on the clear waters of the Sea of Abaco. The awards were given out at the weekly club's Saturday night 'stand up' cocktail party this evening (as opposed to a 'sit down' aka dinner party). We are getting quite a collection of the club's drinking glasses that they give away as awards and a thank you to the race committee boat. I will hopefully be able to post some pictures when they become available in the next few days, so check back soon.