CORRECTIONS & ADDITIONS MADE ARE IN GREEN
Wasting away in Margaritaville. Welcome Jerry and Jacque. And for all, ... here is what should be our definitive statement on hotel rooms for the entire trip. I will include a detailed arrival schedule (days only - no time of arrival, we will add these details later LIKE NOW).
Rick Lester and Pat & Barbara and Greg & Darcy will be traveling to Saint Thomas leaving Seattle on Wednesday the 7th of November arriving on Thursday the 8th. The FIVE of us will need a hotel for one night (Thursday).
NOBODY arriving after Thursday (the 8th) of November will need a hotel room until after the cruise is completed.
EVERYBODY arriving on Friday the 9th and Saturday the 10th will be able to sleep on Boat # 2 (The LOVE BOAT) on Friday and Saturday nights.
These are the travel dates as I understand them: (PLEASE CORRECT ME WITH A COMMENT TO THIS POSTING ... ALSO PLEASE GIVE ME YOUR ARRIVAL TIMES IN SAINT THOMAS (ST). THIS WILL HELP WITH OVERALL PLANNING)
Arriving in ST on Thursday: Rick Lester, Pat & Barbara, @ 2:20 PM Greg & Darcy @ 9:15PM. (G&D we will pick you up at the airport and take you to your hotel. If you wish, let me know and I will make our reservation for the 8th to include you. This would make our transportation issues more simple).
Arriving in ST on Friday: Dale & Kay @ 3:55 PM (someone will pick you up in the community rental car).
Friday night will be our one and only Sleep-A-Board night. The LOVE BOAT will be moored in Compass Point Marina and CANNOT leave the dock. (Because of the Sleep-A-Board status) On The LOVE BOAT that night will be P&B in their permanent cabin; the Aft Cabin, Rick Lester in a Bunk (probably) G&D in their permanent cabin; the V-Berth, and D&K in their temporary cabin Mid - Forward.
On Saturday Pat and Rick will receive their Skipper training, briefing, and checkout. This is expected to take four to six hours between 9am and 3pm. While this is going on any cruisers that do not participate in the Skipper training, briefing, and checkout will most likely take the community rental car and purchase our provisions and deliver them to the dock. This will probably take four to six hours also.
After The LOVE BOAT has been provisioned (with food and beverages and supplies for BOTH boats) and the Skipper indoctrination has been completed, The LOVE BOAT will cruise to Crown Bay Marina. (We will get to Crown Bay as soon as possible, hopefully by 4PM) This is a marina that is many miles closer to the airport and close to the place where we will drop the community rental car. One of the Sleep-A-Board cruisers will have driven the rental car from Compass Point Marina to meet The LOVE BOAT at Crown Bay Marina. Once all of the Sleep-A-Boards have been reunited, someone (volunteers anyone?) will drive the rental car to the airport and shuttle Saturdays (seven) arrivals (see below) from the airport to Crown Bay Marina. (two to three trips) DO NOT FEAR ! ! From experience I can tell you the local tourist welcoming committee will greet everyone at the airport with free rum ! They do this before you go to baggage claim. DON'T WORRY, BE HAPPY ! ! After you get your bags our volunteer shuttle driver will whisk you and your mate away to Crown Bay where your personal 60 foot yacht will await your arrival. (Que the Dating Game Theme Song).
http://www.crownbay.com/index.html
Arriving in ST on Saturday: Amy Lester, Todd & Lysa, Patti & Scott, and Jerry & Jacque ALL @ 3:55 PM
Cabin assignments for Saturday will remain as on Friday with the addition of Amy in the other Bunk (probably) Todd and Lysa in their permanent cabin Mid - Aft, Scott & Patti and Jerry & Jacque will find make shift quarters on the boat. It is my suggestion that the group purchase four sleeping bags (if everyone approves and we cannot get bedding from VIP) in Saint Thomas for use on Saturday night for those two couples. UPDATE: Jerry and Jacque will arrive in ST on Saturday and have a hotel reservation for the 10th in ST. They will join us on Sunday morning at Compass Point Marina. Unfortunately Boat #1 (TWO SHEETS) will not be available to us until Sunday morning. After all cruisers are on board and the rental car is returned we (all 12 of us) will depart Crown Bay for Water Island. I believe not having boat #1 available could be a blessing in disguise as we will have one night to all be together (albeit, crowded). (Minus Jerry & Jacque and Ed & Andrea).
We will spend our first night on the hook at Water Island. On Sunday morning at a time arranged with VIP, we will return to Compass Point Marina to acquire TWO SHEETS. At that time the stowaways on The LOVE BOAT will go to their preassigned cabins on TWO SHEETS.
Least we forget... Ed and Andrea will be joining us on Thursday (I believe) the next week on Tortola. We will meet at a place to be determined. (Note to E&A: Please leave a comment with the time, date and place of your arrival in the islands. We will arrange our itinerary to me up with you upon your arrival). We would like to know what day you will leave ST as we wish to include you in the Thanksgiving dinner.
On Thursday morning the 22nd (Thanksgiving) we will return both boats to VIP at Noon. We will then travel to our hotel in Saint Thomas. This is the hotel night I will book for all couples staying in Saint Thomas on Thursday night the 22nd. I will also book a reservation at Craig and Sally's Restaurant in Saint Thomas for Thanksgiving dinner. I can't imagine a better night or a greater group to give thanks with and for.
http://craigandsallys.com/
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Count us in on all counts!! Our plane arrives at 3:55 PM on Saturday and I believe Amy and PS are also on that flight...
Pat, Greg and I are arriving on Thursday the 8th arriving at 9:15 pm and leaving the VI on Friday the 23rd
Darcy
Noted. I will make the necessary changes to the POSTs.
Pat
Ok... Ed and I are very glad to be in on the trip we cant wait to get the chance to meet everyone! I am starting to try and find us a good flight but would love any reccomendations on where to start. I have flown into Beef Island before but if I remenber it is a long drive to any manrina? Where would be the best place for us to fly into for ease of pick up? Any help would be much appreciated!
Oh and I forgot we will be there through Thursday so count us in for Thanksgiving.
Hi Andrea, got your comment about transportation. Here is the deal for you as I understand it. You have the choice of flying to EITHER Saint Thomas or Tortola. Either way you will need to have a ferry ride. Well, there is one exception…. If you get an “open jaw” return. With this ticket you can fly to Beef Island and your return flight is from ST. I would guess off hand this might be an expensive ticket though. It is worth asking especially if you are using FF miles. Sometimes there is no penalty to fly open jaw with FF miles. OTHERWISE…..If you fly to ST (my recommendation) you can take taxi from the airport to downtown docks and then a ferry will take you to Tortola and we will meet you there (at the ferry dock). Then it will be easy to return with the rest of us on Friday the 23rd. If you fly to Beef Island we will have no trouble meeting you near the airport upon your arrival. You will need to ferry back to Tortola for your return flight on Thursday afternoon or Friday morning (most likely I hope). The ferry is $40 to $50 PP I think. I will check on the ferry cost for you. Flying into either island will create no problem for us to meet you. Another option to the ferry travel is to take an airplane (puddle jumper) from ST to Beef Island, however I believe this might be expensive.
We are looking forward to meeting the two of you. We are going to make sure our next meeting can have 100% attendance so everybody can start to get to know all the members of the cruise.
Feel free to contact me anytime. Pat Cattin 206-799-0100
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