420 Boat Trip.

[Rufus]

Mental note to self avoid FT and his camera

Bit of a relief to find out I'm not the only lightweight, phewwwweeeeeee

[Dave J]

Mental note to self avoid FT and his camera

Bit of a relief to find out I'm not the only lightweight, phewwwweeeeeee

But I do often build my stamina up pretty well after a couple of days, hence why I'm getting there to have 2 days to work myself into the 420 meet lol.

[Trad]

Sorry to interrupt.....
What do you think of doing the boat tour on the 19th? Would that be better for those that are dashing off on the 21st?

[Dave J]

Like I said, either way for me happy to go with the majority. But that idea goes both ways as a few members are only in for the 2 nights anyways I think?, thus dont get in till the 19th.

Think we may have to have a vote for which day, say the 19th 21st or 22nd we plan to have the boat trip. Once a date is confirmed thats half the boat trip sorted.

[Trad]

Any date is going to conflict with someones schedule so, I agree, a vote would be a good idea.

[Colina]

I think we should ask all 420 attendees direct by sending them a pm.
in a poll everyone can vote, not only the attendees! -that would be not very informative for us.
then we also know the number of people that are really interested in the boat trip as we have to make a reservation.

[Dave J]

A public vote could work IF the person also had to state as a post of there choice?. As I agree a vote itself may be open to abuse by non antendee's.

[Trad]

The focus of the boat tour has shifted to the date debate... ...and away from the actual boat/boats that we will use.
At this point we are a group of about 16-19 (date dependent and everyone shows), that's at least three of the Boaty boats, if that is the venue we opt for. I have e-mailed Boaty.nl and it is possible to rent more than the three boats offered on the web site.
Are we decided on this company or is this still open?

[Colina]

I think boaty is a great choice. as a group (5 people/boat) it's 'cheap' and we can do our own route. we can smoke, eat and drink on the boats. and with a bit sence it's save. we will have an armada of boaties what will be even more fun imo. the crews could rotate at halftime so a talk with each attendee is possible and more relaxed as on a big boat.

as I normaly travel solo or in pairs boaty will be more expesive and no real option on other trips. a trip with a larger boat can be joined even as a solo traveler at anytime.

the only real option would be St. Nic imo. but they do shorter trips and without stops.

[badbone]

I also vote at: the Boaty boats

[Trad]

When I e-mailed Boaty they suggested that I book the three boats on-line and they will hold at least two more for me, at no charge, until I settle on a number. If we are putting five in each boat, we need three-four boat at this point....if the date is the 21st we have sixteen members (and their gustes) who said they will attend. There is nothing else planned for the 21st, so far. Of the fourteen members that responded all but one of us, I believe, are there on the 19th, but the 19th is getting to be a pretty full day.
Are there any other comments or suggestions as to the boat/company that we should employ? Anyone?...

I posted this and then took another look at the schedule and I see that the afternoon on the 19th. is free.

[hestia]

Whatever date and time that you choose will be fine with me Trad.

[yogibear]

Sounds good to me as Long as I don't have to row. how's that break down?

[AzLaker]

From your voting poll on dates, the 19th and the 21st were the top 2. You pick one of the two dates....people will show up. I'll be there with the wife on whichever day you pick.


Next....we need to figure out which coffeeshops we're going to stop at along the way.

[Trad]

I read this quote in a post by Lemming in the 420 Gathering thread:-

"I wonder whether we should organise the more adventurous crawls out of the centre on dates away from the 20th, such as the 17th, 18th and 22nd, and leave the dates close to the 20th for judging visits to the more popular shops. That way everyone can take part in the voting and those with more time can explore the outer reaches."

So, with that in mind, the date for the boat tour is to be April 21st. If we set the time at 1300 (1:00 pm) and go for the three hours, we shall be back in lots of time for any activities planned for the late afternoon....even if we run over the three hours we still have time to attend T&T's and do a "Meat Meet", if so desired.

We seem to be in agreement on the rental company point also. Boaty.nl is the one and I shall e-mail them for further information and bookings. We can book three boats for April 21st @ 1300 hrs. (1:00 pm) for three hours @ 267 euro. At the present time we have seventeen 'crew' so, that's 15.71 euro per crew member. This should be affordable for everyone.

These are the members who I have down for the 21st. Let me know if I have missed anyone or if you are going to attend as the number is still open for additions. Let's get a veritable Armada of Boaty boats lose on the canals of Amsterdam..


Colina
Dave J
BadBone + 2
Lemming + 1 ..(I am assuming that Ms Lemming will attend?)
Hestia
Cattales1960
08-420
Gapie
Ftcarer
Azlaker + 1
Yogibear
Trad + 1 ..(LittleD)

Seventeen by my count.

The first edit was to correct my poor math skills and this is the second... .