Best Meal I Ever Made!— March 2025 Photo Contest

[Christian Sommer]

March has arrived,

Mornings are getting brighter with every day, so to celebrate we are having a forum-wide photo contest! Our theme this month is “Best Meal I Ever Made.” Have a killer crab cake recipe? Know how to make the best on board entrée? Submit a photo of the best meal or appetizer you’ve made on board!

To enter the contest, reply to this post with your photo, boat model, and a description about what's going on to accompany it. Brownie points if you include the recipe! One photo/entry per user. The Photo Contest will be open until 8:00 AM PST on 3/24/2025. After all the submissions have been collected, factory personnel will vote on the winner.

One winner for each brand will be selected (Ranger Tugs, Cutwater, or Solara) and will win a pair of branded jackets and get their winning photo proudly displayed on he Tugnuts homepage and Fluid Motion social media accounts!

Please Note:
This thread is for contest submissions only; replies which do not submit a picture for the contest will be moderated and promptly deleted. Once voting has started, you are not allowed to edit your entry.

 

[scross]

Definitely not the best food we have ever had on either our R-25 Classic or current C-28. But one of the more memorable meals since it was our first dinner onboard our 2009 R-25 Classic on June 8th, 2016.
We were towing the boat up from our home in Southern Oregon up to Bellingham for the cruising season. The R-25 is not even in the water for this photo - we are boaterhoming at an I-5 rest stop somewhere in southern Washington state.
This was the first of four hundred plus dinners we have since enjoyed aboard our two Fluid Motion boats - both on the water and on the trailer!

 

[bob daily]

Cheetos and a six-pack is considered a seven course dinner on our boat!

 

[Nwdiver]

Trolling down the channel, hoping for a bite, either a hamburger or on a pole

 

[Martin610]

Some back story to this one. My wife had to do some things for her mother so I went solo for an overnighter off a favorite beach. Had a nice steak and some other things to take for dinner, and forgot it at home. Oh boy.

Trusty clam rake was on board so off I went to forage for dinner. It was either that or my old friend, Dinty Moore.

I actually did pretty well and had enough clams in a couple of hours.


I wasn't sure what else was on board. However, I scrounged up an almost fossilized garlic bulb, had some butter and olive oil, and I even found some wine. Last but not least was some practically desiccated lemon on the shelf. It all came together pretty well. Considering the somewhat desperate circumstances, this saved the trip and became my favorite meal. Clams don't come any fresher than this!




-martin610

 

[Autigr]

March has arrived,

Mornings are getting brighter with every day, so to celebrate we are having a forum-wide photo contest! Our theme this month is “Best Meal I Ever Made.” Have a killer crab cake recipe? Know how to make the best on board entrée? Submit a photo of the best meal or appetizer you’ve made on board!

To enter the contest, reply to this post with your photo, boat model, and a description about what's going on to accompany it. Brownie points if you include the recipe! One photo/entry per user. The Photo Contest will be open until 8:00 AM PST on 3/24/2025. After all the submissions have been collected, factory personnel will vote on the winner.

One winner for each brand will be selected (Ranger Tugs, Cutwater, or Solara) and will win a pair of branded jackets and get their winning photo proudly displayed on he Tugnuts homepage and Fluid Motion social media accounts!

Please Note:
This thread is for contest submissions only; replies which do not submit a picture for the contest will be moderated and promptly deleted. Once voting has started, you are not allowed to edit your entry.

Well it's not haute cuisine but I thought it was pretty dang good. I was solo for two months last summer on our R-27 up on Lake Pend Oreille, so this is cooking for one, bachelor style. Smoked salmon & shroom Alfredo with lotsa grated parm over fettuccine, craft beer, and huckleberry taffy! 😎

🙂

 

[az9133bm]

Trying to represent for us trailer boaters...

At anchor near Gregory Butte Lake Powell.

 

[William Sanborn]

One of our favorite meals to fix for a Potluck Dock Party is Frogmore Stew. I Load the big pot, burner, and table on the Ranger 27 and meet other boats at a Dock.
Season the water with salt, 'Slap your Momma', garlic, lemons, and onion. Bring to a boil. Add little red spuds, 5 minutes then Kielbasa, 5 minutes then corn nibbles, 3 minutes. After cooked turn off heat and add the shrimp to steep 15 minutes until pink. Dump on the newspaper covered table and Guest use tongs to fill their plates. We adjust quantity based on size of the crowd, and if needed can do a second batch.
Very Social time while the Stew is cooking, and sometimes a Beer will get spilled into the pot.

 

[Submariner]

Ranger Tug R27. Location/Coordinates: Classified. Melissa's favorite meal on the boat. Ingredients needed: Crab, butter.

 

[Iflytoo]

One of our “go-to” dishes on our Ranger Tug 27 is Sweet & Sour Meatballs, served either as an appetizer with cheese & crackers, or as a meal over a bowl of steamed rice. We have a small “boat size” rice cooker that we bring along. I use frozen (precooked) meatballs, place desired amount on a cookie sheet, then bake at 375 degrees for about 15 mins or until browned. Place meatballs in a pan on the stovetop along with equal parts of chil sauce & grape jelly, enough to cover the meatballs. Heat & serve! Tad & Lisa Santino, R27 “BUBBLES”

 

[Seamus]

JP and I celebrating her birthday having grilled wild King Salmon Nicoise Salad on r23 Noodles II.
Charlie McManus
Tacoma