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[PSUBS-MAILIST] Vancouver Convention
Hello everyone.
We have secured conference room facilities at the Vancouver Maritime
Museum for Saturday, Oct 3, 2009. This is the current home of the "Ben
Franklin" submarine used for Gulf Stream research in 1969. We will be
in the TeeKay room and I expect we'll be starting at 8am sharp and going
for most of the day.
To cover costs, I have set this years attendance rates (registration
fee) at $30 for members and $40 for non-members. This includes:
1) Meet & Greet at the Creekside Restaurant and Lounge (in the lounge),
Quality Inn at False Creek. Wednesday, Sept 30, 2009
Most of us will be coming quite a distance so it will be nice to sit
back after a long day of traveling, chew on some appetizers, toast a few
glasses, and exchange travel horror stories...I mean...catch up with
each other again and meet new people. I'm thinking 4-7pm or even 5-8pm,
but am flexible on the times. PSUBS will pick up the cost for
appetizers. Drinks will have to be paid individually.
2) Speakers and Presentations at Vancouver Maritime Museum. Saturday,
Oct 3, 2009
This covers the cost of the room rental plus coffee, soda, water, cups,
chips, etc, etc. Each person is responsible for the cost of their own
lunch. For those who wish to participate in the traditional "Sub"
sandwich for lunch, we will order from Quiznos the night before and have
them deliver direct to the museum. We require your food choice (be
specific with the various condiments you want) and payment by Friday,
Oct 2, at 5pm, at the latest. PSUBS will provide water, soda, napkins,
plates, etc. If you are not in the mood for anything on the Quiznos
menu, you will have between 45-60 minutes to go out for lunch at some
other location before we return to the presentations.
I will have online registration and a printable form for those who want
to pay by check or money-order, written up and available by the end of
the weekend. Please do not hesitate to sign up as soon as possible.
Don't forget to make your lodging arrangements.
OTHER CONVENTION DETAILS - NOT INCLUDED IN REGISTRATION FEE
A) Transportation.
Everyone is responsible for their own transportation. If you need
transportation, the best thing to do is make a statement as such on the
mailing list so we know about you and can attempt to coordinate rides
to/from events. If you intend to have a vehicle in Vancouver and are
willing to transport others, please let us know so we can keep track of
both available seats and those needing rides. I only know of two people
so far who would enjoy hitching a ride with someone else. I think we
can handle that with known existing cars that will be available. If
necessary, Steve McQueen and I have offered to go in on renting a seven
passenger van but it would be nice to split that cost even further if
anyone else wants to join in.
B) Tour of Nuytco Research Ltd. Thursday (time to be determined)
There is no charge for this tour and we thank Phil Nuytten and his staff
for sharing their valuable time with us. Ray and Phil are working out
these details and we should know what time to be there, soon. The
"Sea-Bus" that Phil Nuytten referred to in an early post costs $9 per
person and operates every 15 minutes during the day and every 30 minutes
during the evening. Sounds like it might be more fun than driving in
traffic around the city and something we can look into further and talk
about at the Meet & Greet Wednesday evening.
C) Submersible Diving with Nuytco Research Ltd.
Ray, Dave Walls, and Phil Nuytten met today to talk about plans for this
event. We should have information soon. There will be costs involved
for a crane, barge (possibly), and other equipment necessary to carry
out this dive event. These costs will be priced and collected
separately, and as I'm sure you can understand, non-refundable. Stay
tuned for more details.
D) Ad-hoc group meetings (aka Rum Tasting).
Yo-ho-ho, a sub, and a bottle of rum (or something like that). These
"meetings" typically take place in the evening and are moderated by Jay
Jeffries. They are very casual, much like the "meet & greet", and a
good place to talk about sub related concepts, projects, and plans with
other psubbers. By the end of the evening, discussions tend to resemble
"The Four Yorkshiremen" ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MtKNLfhT6M or
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo ) to outside observers.
Specific times and room location will be forthcoming.
E) Traditional post-presentation Dinner. Saturday evening (6pm or 7pm?)
Oct 3, 2009
While we certainly may have other dinner outings during our time in
Vancouver, the Post-Presentation dinner is traditional and we hope you
will join us. After a long day of SUB-talk, we all head to good
restaurant for food and fun. This will likely be our last time all
together in Vancouver since some folks will be leaving Sunday morning to
head back home. The exact restaurant will be decided when we arrive in
Vancouver and scout out some good candidates. If anyone knows of a good
restaurant that has a large menu selection and can handle the size of
our group, please let Ray or I know as soon as possible. If all else
fails, we will have dinner back at the Creekside Restaurant at the
Quality Inn Hotel. Each individual is responsible for the cost of their
own dinner, however we will likely need to make reservations so I will
need to know if you intend to join us.
As usual, keep checking the website for updated info and of course we
will notify this list as well.
Jon
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