[PSUBS-MAILIST] Bellingham-Vancouver Schedule, Aug 21-24, 2014

[Jim Todd via Personal_Submersibles]

Thanks, Sean. Let's move our Saturday morning departure time back to 8:00.  The Oboe Cafe opens for breakfast at 6:00, so that should work easily. 

My Internet is down right now. Hard telling when they will have it restored. 

Jim T. 

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> On Jun 14, 2014, at 8:37 PM, "Sean T. Stevenson via Personal_Submersibles" <personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:
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> I want to caution you all that while the bulk of the drive from Bellingham to North Vancouver is predictable, traffic at the US / Canada border is less so, and it might be wise to allow for some extra time sitting in the border lineup to get through.  NEXUS card holders have access to an express lane.
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> Sean
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>> On June 14, 2014 5:22:04 PM MDT, via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:
>> BELLINGHAM-VANCOUVER SESSION SCHEDULE
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>> Best Western Plus, Lakeway Inn and Convention Center
>> 714 Lakeway Drive, Bellingham, WA 98229.  Phone 360-671-1011 
>> http://www.thelakewayinn.com/   The hotel will provide vouchers for breakfast each morning in the hotel café upon check-in.
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>>  PSUBS convention registration is available at http://psubs.org/convention/2014/
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>> Thursday, August 21st:  Meet & Greet beginning at 4:00 in Poppe’s Pub within Lakeway Inn & Conference Center.  Appetizers provided by PSUBS; attendees are responsible for their own drinks.  At the Muskegon convention the Meet & Greet morphed into dinner at the same location.  I expect the same at Bellingham.
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>> Friday, August 22nd:  Breakfast by order at The Oboe Café within Lakeway Inn.  Dive day.  The start and stop times for dive operations are dependent on the weather.  We also have a meeting room available at our hotel for tech sessions to the extent time allows.  The tech sessions will fit in before and/or after dive operations and will focus on updates by sub builders and open forum Q&A.   Dinner at a restaurant within walking distance of Lakeway Inn. 
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>> Saturday, August 23rd:  Breakfast at The Oboe Café.  Depart no later than 8:30 a.m. for Nuytco Research, Ltd. at 216 East Esplanade, North Vancouver, BC.  Our time at Nuytco is scheduled from 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. with lunch at a pub nearby at each member’s expense.  This is our mega-tech session for the conference.  This is a fantastic opportunity for an up-close look at the latest technology and systems at Nuytco’s expanded facility.  http://nuytco.com/
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>> Extra event:  The Vancouver Aquarium and Marine Science Center is directly on our route and about 15 minutes away when we depart Nuytco.  We have the opportunity to tour it until it closes at 6:00 sharp.  http://www.vanaqua.org/   Bellingham is one hour south of the Vancouver Aquarium.  The group (as well as individuals) can decide to then have dinner at Whitespot Café in Vancouver, have dinner in Bellingham at a restaurant within walking distance of Lakeway Inn, or opt out of the visit to the Aquarium.
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>> Sunday, August 24th:  Breakfast at The Oboe Cafe.  Checkout time is 12:00 noon.  Many will be departing at various times that morning.  Some attendees are planning to stay over for an extra day.  For those who are interested we can have a meeting room after breakfast for an open session and Q&A.
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>> At the Muskegon convention our original dive day got rained out, and we held the dive day on Sunday instead.  A large number of attendees checked out of the hotel but delayed their departures until later in the day.  Some had earlier flights and had to leave as scheduled.  We have scheduled Bellingham at the driest time of the year, however we are making every effort to be ready to flex the schedule in response to weather.  One thing that will not vary is the Saturday session at Nuytco.   We all owe Phil a great debt of thanks and appreciation for hosting this day-long event.
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