Monday, August 6, 2007

Duty Assignments and odds and ends

Because of our many discussions in the past I have rather confusing notes on duty assignments. Would you please email me your understanding of your individual duty assignment? I will have this in a summary format for everyone on Sunday. Currently I have:

Three Sheets

Skipper: Rick
First Mate: Jerry
Coxswain: Scott
Chef: Jacque/Kay
Special Sea & Anchor Duty: Dale/Jerry
Master @ Arms: Patti
Engineer: Dale
Purser (both boats): Amy


The Love Boat

Skipper: Pat
First Mate: Darcy
Coxswain: Ed
Chef: None
Special Sea & Anchor Duty: Greg/ Darcy
Master @ Arms: Andrea
Engineer: Greg
Purser (both boats): Amy


We can finalize our food and beverage preferences at the meeting. I would suggest our cooks set up a place at Patti and Scott's where we can go to you and make our last requests for your inclusion in your provisioning order.

Amy has made the final payment for the boats as of 12:30 this afternoon. Nori @ VIP has received our manifest. Rick and I are sending a signed copy of our charter agreement today.

With these actions all that is left for us to do with VIP is show up and get our charter checkout and depart.

It is my understanding all travel arrangements have been made and rechecked.

I will be confirming our rental pickup we are using for all transportation and provisioning and hotel reservations for the night of the 22nd of November for eight rooms.


Pat

Inclusion in Google Groups

Hi everybody.
I am looking forward to our next meeting. It is my understanding we will be meeting at Patti and Scott's home on this coming Sunday.

Today I am asking Amy to make the final payment to VIP for our boats. Barbara, Rick and I will be getting on a plane to Saint Thomas in about 90 days to start our trip. WOW! I am excited!

I have a request in to the Marriott in ST for a one night Thanksgiving hotel reservation. I hope to receive a call back today. I will have a room for everyone for that night one way or another by the time of the meeting.

I want to make sure everyone is receiving our group messages. These messages do not normally post to the blog. I intend to post this one. Please send me a little message back just to let me know you have received this Caribbean-Cruisers-2007@GoogleGroups.com message.

Skipper Pat

but you can call me Skippy

Friday, August 3, 2007

Update on Money Matters

Hello Everyone! I hope you've all been (and still are) enjoying the beautiful weather and all the fun summer has to offer! All July payments (except for Pat & Barbara who will deposit when they get back from vacation this weekend) have been deposited to the account, the balance of which is $19,051.32. The final payment for the boats is about $16,800, so we're good there.
To date everyone has paid $3,300 of the $4,185 for the trip (per couple), which means that there will need to be another payment of $885 per couple by the time we depart. Since this is the money that we will use for provisioning, gas, water, etc. I don't have a particular preference as to when it gets deposited. If people would like to go ahead and write a check for the remaining balance at the meeting next weekend to get their account all squared away, then that's fine or we can have a deposit of $500 at the next meeting and another $385 due before we depart.
Also, just to put a bug in your ear, we had discussed giving a $100 credit to those couples who would be staying at a hotel Saturday night instead of sleeping aboard the one boat we have for that night. I think that everyone had agreed this was fair, so at the next meeting we'll need to confirm which couples those were so that I can adjust the amounts still owing on their account accordingly. If any one has any questions, please let me know.
See you all on the 12th!
Take Care,
Amy