John Jack's Lobster Dinner Cruise...A Night to Remember
Tuesday, June 21, 2011 at 11:56PM Saturday, June 18th, eleven “bug lovers” boarded the John Jack for our first Lobster Dinner Cruise. The plan was to send 3 crew down to a wreck to grab lobsters for dinner, cook them (the lobsters - not the crew), and serve them to the guests.
We departed Pt. Pleasant under sunny skies and calm seas, but after finding a fishing boat parked on our Plan A dive site, we fired up Plan B. Plan B: dive the lobster-poor Delaware and start cooking up the lobsters we bought before leaving port. Our guests, some of whom had never been on a boat in the ocean, enjoyed the spectacle of the divers gearing up with too much gear and jumping off a perfectly good boat into water too deep to stand.
After the divers reboarded, we headed back to shore - but not home. We set the John Jack’s engines on idle and for 3 hrs we cruised the local harbors, rivers, and canals. As the sun slowly set, our guests dined on crab dip and crackers, and mini-hot dogs wrapped with bacon. The headliner, fresh-cooked lobsters, was joined by a green salad, baked potato, and rolls. The dinner finale was fruit trifle and chocolate brownies. After dinner, our guests relaxed on the rear deck and upper deck and watched the luxury houses and moored boats slid by – slowly.
It was a great trip to nowhere on a beautiful summer evening with a fun group of guests. Stay tuned to the John Jack website. We'll have another Lobster Dinner Cruise after the John Jack returns from Montauk and Block Island in August.
Captain Rich
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