It’s amazing what a movie under the stars will do for morale on a boat.  As long as you’ve kept the bugs in check with a thermacell, the whole crew can rally around the drive- in atmosphere of an outdoor movie.

Well, duh.  Of course everybody would enjoy that.  But it sounds expensive.  Not so.  You can pick up an inexpensive projector to get the job done.  The linked projector even includes a movie screen to use, but you can also just use a white sheet.  I’ve even heard of cruising families using the projector on their sail to watch a movie underway at night.  Cool.

Time to fire up your popcorn popper and have family movie night!

Full disclosure:  our projector came on our boat.  It’s a few generations old, so I couldn’t find it on Amazon.  We don’t have the exact projector listed above, but it looks good and is only $65.
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