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Re: fc00 boat charter
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Hettinga)
Mon Sep 20 20:42:23 1999
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Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 17:29:46 -0400
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From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
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<Let's see if the fc00 list is up yet. I bet it isn't...>
At 3:52 PM -0400 on 9/20/99, Declan McCullagh wrote, on cypherpunks:
> Just maybe. Depends on how long it takes -- I can't justify an overwhelming
> amount of time away from the office. Seems to me there'd be a huge
> difference in terms of time and cost from Boston and Miami. (Heck, how
> about Norfolk or somewhere in MD/VA near DC?)
Quite a long haul from either place, in fact, and I'd rather *sail*,
anyway :-).
Of course, booking a block of cruise-ship rooms out of Miami, or San
Juan, or St. Thomas even, might not be a bad thing. Can't really
expect it to park in Anguilla for a week, though, as Ryan notes below.
I've been kicking around the idea of boat-cabin-as-hotel-room ever
since we started the Financial Cryptography conference; you can't
look down on the brilliant turquoise water of Sandy Ground from the
cliff near the InterIsland by Raffi's and *not* imagine sitting on
the the world's greatest back porch, Rum-something-or-other in hand,
watching the sun go down. We could never make it work out, for one
reason or another.
This year, however, a friend on our Boston harbor round-the-cans crew
owns 50-footer for charter out of Virgin Gorda, and some of that
crew, and some sailing FCXX regulars, and I, have been kicking around
the idea pretty seriously between tacks and climbs to the next high
side. I've got 5 to 8 people so far, I think, which probably fills
the boat at the high side of *that*, though people will probably sign
on and drop off. We're probably looking at two weeks on the boat,
with various people dropping in and out at various locations. We
haven't figured out whether we'd start in the BVIs or end there,
though. And, of course, the idea is to park on Sandy Ground for the
conference no matter what we do. I have to be on Anguilla some part
of the weekend before and/or after, but, besides that, it doesn't
matter to me, when or where we sail at all :-).
I can see it now... Do the conference in the AM, and sail a bit in
the PM... Yes, boys and girls, there *is* a reason I invented the
conference with *no* afternoon sessions... :-).
Chartering a sailboat on Saint Martin/Maarten (the island is
French/Dutch and has a nice, big runway with lots of direct flights
to Europe and the States) and sailing over to Anguilla is pretty
straightforward, and the only reason we're even thinking about
sailing a boat, overnight, out of sight of land, all the way across
the Gut from the Virgins is, well, because we *can*, :-), having a
boat full of sailing "ringers", as it were.
But, however you want do it, FC00 is in the middle of the Carribbean
high season, so getting your boat chartered should be done quickly,
if it's still even possible.
Cheers,
RAH
At 3:52 PM -0400 on 9/20/99, Declan McCullagh wrote, on cypherpunks:
> Just maybe. Depends on how long it takes -- I can't justify an overwhelming
> amount of time away from the office. Seems to me there'd be a huge
> difference in terms of time and cost from Boston and Miami. (Heck, how
> about Norfolk or somewhere in MD/VA near DC?)
>
> -Declan
>
>
> At 05:25 9/19/1999 -0700, Ryan Lackey wrote:
>>Would anyone be interested in potentially chartering a boat (or block-booking
>>on a cruise) from a major East Coast city (probably Boston, NYC, Miami)
>>to Anguilla for fc00? It'll certainly not be a cost savings over
>>flying, but would be far more fun. This idea came up last year, but didn't
>>happen.
>>
>>(a cruise would presumably terminate in Sint Maarten, which is an 8 nm
>>ferry away; a chartered boat could hang around and be housing...)
>>
>>There are also possibilities for getting group airfare from SFO to
>>cruise port in the US...
>>
>>--
>>ryan@venona.com
>>http://www.venona.com/rdl/
>>1024D/4096g 0xD2E0301F B8B8 3D95 F940 9760 C64B DE90 07AD BE07 D2E0 301F
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