New Year's Eve and Mega Yachts

New Year's Eve was here on the boat. We decided that on New Year's Eve, as usual, that we would cook in and then go out for a while. We had a good B-bqued steak on the aft deck and then waited a while before going to Nipper's. We wound up at Nipper's eventually and met up with some other folks also staying at the marina in their boats.
And we had a great time. A little dancing, some booze (required to encourage dancing) and then watched the fireworks.
The fireworks were some reasonably good sized rockets that had to be shot directly into the wind. We had probably 25-30 mph wind blowing on shore so to be safe the folks sending them off took a few test shots low which bounced on the water, and then lifted them up a bit so they flew straight into the wind. Every now and then one was low and it would skip on the water of just get extinguished.
Regardless it was a great show and we had a good time.

Today we got into the dink intending to go back to Spoil Island for another shell hunt. We saw the mega yachts in the basin just off the island and when I went to throttle up again, nothing.. The throttle linkage fell apart. So we headed back early after a temp work around. Sorry the photos are not close enough perhaps the weather will be better tomorrow so we can get some close ups. Click on the photo perhaps there will be some detail or, enough so you can see how some people boat.