Sweetheart Cruise to Poulsbo

It's time to begin our cruising season so we headed off to Poulsbo for our first 2017 cruise for EYC. In the past our February cruise was to Kingston so people who did not have a boat could walk on the ferry and join us for dinner. Because of some changes at Kingston and larger boats in our club, we decided to try Poulsbo this year. We anticipated about 15 boats and maybe 30 people or so. I made arrangements for Friday night pizza from Woodfire Pizza, breakfast pastries from Poulsbo Bakery and then Tizley's EuroPub for dinner on Saturday night for 32 people.  We ended up with 28 boats and 73 people! That was wonderful but it certainly caused us to make some changes to our plans. Pizza became Domino's at  $6.99 each, pastries came from Costco and we scheduled two shifts for dinner at Tizley's. We stayed within our budget and everyone had a great time anyway!

We were given access to a small building down on the dock for gatherings but because of the size of our group, we used the boats for dinner on Friday. Everyone picked up their pizza and then drew a host boat name where they went to eat dinner with other members. It was a great way to get acquainted with other boaters. At one point, we had too many people in the room as we waited for Bob to bring the pizzas. As he looked at the water level on the dock where the building was he came on and yelled for everyone to get out of the room. I think capacity was around 25 people and we had somewhere around 60 at the time.

We did provide breakfast in the dockside room but people took their time coming to eat so we slowly filtered the group through. It worked out great and people were able to sit down and enjoy their breakfasts.

On Saturday evening we had a 5:00 and 6:45 shift for dinner at Tizley's. It came highly recommended but I would never have known it was there if we hadn't been told. It sits next to the Poulsbo Bakery and the door is at the end of a narrow alley. You go upstairs to the restaurant and there it was overlooking the main street of Poulsbo! Everyone loved their food, they provided fast service and all of us plan to go back again.

Sunday morning we provided a continental breakfast for everyone so they could leave early if they needed to. Since it was a three-day weekend several boats stayed until Monday. We gathered together Sunday night for dinner at The Brass Kraken and a great time.

Bob and I left Monday morning and had a good trip back. The weather has been pretty "iffy" and several members had some rough seas coming or going but we lucked out on the weather. It was good to get back on the water and we are looking forward to another year of great cruising and fun with friends.