A Special Christmas Ships Parade
We were down at Hayden Bay on Cinnamon Saturday Jan. 3 to spend some time just relaxing on the boat. We turned on the heater, curled up and watched a couple movies and heated up some lasagna in the oven for dinner. We were getting ready to close her up and head home when I was surprised to see that there were some of the Christmas Ships on parade on the Columbia River and were headed into Hayden Bay. 
We had been down for the first night of the Christmas Ships Parade on Dec. 10th, but then the weather turned extremely cold and stormy so some nights of the parade had to be canceled. As it turned out this was a special parade. A few Christmas Ship boats were in front of Columbia River Yacht Club, then down North Portland Harbor to the bridge area, and return to CRYC in memory of Walt Sheffield, long time leader of the Columbia River Fleet and past President of Christmas Ships, Inc.
