Snacks on board ?

[SkiTundra]

Tonight we're taking some of my wife's family out on the lake to watch the fireworks. She came home with a bunch of bags of chips to take out with us and I kinda balked about it (visions of chips and eventually ants all over my nice clean Nautique). It's one thing when it's just 3 or 4 of us, another with a full boat (3 kids included). Am I way off in left field on being so totally unfun? Are there snacks that work better and aren't as likely to leave a mess?

[gride300]

shopvac at the end of the night or in the morning. no big deal. just no fluorescent snacks like cheetos and doritos

[CHassmann]

No food in our boat. Water only....

[gride300]

do you people have these rules for our cars as well? eating in your boat won't do ANYTHING that can't be undone, if anything at all happens anyways. you don't allow beers in your boat chassmann? do you let people wear sunscreen or just tell them to get skin cancer? ease up. it's a holiday.

[seanxtreme3000]

BEER, FOOD, SUNSCREEN wakeboards and tons of fun. nothing Tileex and 303 wont fix.. my boat looks brand new every DAY. but it is your boat so your choices.. HAPPY 4th

[AirTool]

I was letting kids snack in the boat for two summers but shut it down last year. They just became too sloppy and careless. The boat would look clean and then I'd wash it and a load of chips, crackers, cheerios, whatevers would show up. I already had rules against staining and sticky food like oreo's, chocolate, cheetos, nut bars, etc.

We ski from the dock so I now leave all snacks in the truck and tell them if they want to snack, they can sit on the pier and eat. Nobody has complained....and now they don't even ask. Newbie guests don't even know the difference.

Oh, and no beer in the boat nor at the pier. Not before, during, or after. Drink at home...not in the boat.

[gride300]

what your boat lives at your home? a huge part of the southern lifestyle is enjoying a nice booze cruise in the evening and enjoying the sunset(i consider southern being AL, MS, LA, GA, and north FL)

[TRO]

snacks are ok on mine. i usually buy them though. pretzels, granola bars, and peanuts are easy to clean up. no dorritos or cheetos. booze is ok also, as long as no drivers are drinking and no sticky punch-type drinks.

[ffmedic74]

Why not just have the kids do a picnic on the swim platform???

[CHassmann]

do you people have these rules for our cars as well? eating in your boat won't do ANYTHING that can't be undone, if anything at all happens anyways. you don't allow beers in your boat chassmann? do you let people wear sunscreen or just tell them to get skin cancer? ease up. it's a holiday.

Yes, they are allowed to wear sunscreen. Food is eaten at the house (about 75' from the dock).

[AZWAKEHOG]

eat breakfast......wakeboard....eat lunch............wakeboard.............think about wakeboarding..............wakeboard............lol perks of a water campsite no mess and no big cooler taking up extra ballast space hope everyone had good holiday

[SkiTower]

(i consider southern being AL, MS, LA, GA, and north FL)

And don't forget NC, SC, and TN

[SkiTower]

Why not just have the kids do a picnic on the swim platform???

That's what I aim for, but doesn't always work. We do like to take a watermelon, cut and eat on the platform. Then they take a dip and wash off.

[actman]

No food or animals in the boat. Not just kids make a mess but adults do a good job especially if there not the ones
cleaning the boat! I keep my seats lightly coated with Meguiras 57. It helps with the suntan lotion and other dirt.
Being from Canada we are mostly beer drinkers in the summer and I learned long ago that beer never seemed to stain my dads pool table so i new it would alwasys clean up good in the boat! Pop and juice can stain.

[srock]

Keep the sunscreen off the handle please