Florida Get Together 2010

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Eshaw150

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Ok sounds good to me. Dont know how the boat and biker chicks is gonna go.
 

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looks like Lake Griffin just struck out.
 

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Crystal River looks great to me. Let's do it !!!!
Need to confirm exact dates as soon as possible so that I can "schedule" a business trip to our Alabama facility either right before it or right after it. That way as I am coming from Ontario I am a lot of the way there already.
Mrs Ken and myself are really looking forward to it.
 

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Crystal River looks great to me. Let's do it !!!!
Need to confirm exact dates as soon as possible so that I can "schedule" a business trip to our Alabama facility either right before it or right after it. That way as I am coming from Ontario I am a lot of the way there already.
Mrs Ken and myself are really looking forward to it.

Make sure you bring something Canadian with you..wife hasn't been home to Toronto (Brampton) for a year or so and is getting a little homesick. Keep the snow and cold, tho, that's no longer something she misses! I haven't heard her say "eh" for a while...she will probably get right back in it with some fellow countrymen. And it does look like you're gonna get the long distance award! (We do offer one of those, right??)
I have to agree most of us are liking Crystal Isle. Last year, we took our boat to Lk Griffin a month or so before the gathering and plan on doing so at the new place this year as well. It's an easy day trip for us....
 

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I will bring Mrs Ken....She's Canadian !!! I am just an ex pat limey from Liverpool England originally.
Seriously though I am considering,

#1. Canadian Beer
#2. Canadian Beer
#3. Canadian beer
#4. Canadian Whiskey
#5. Canadian Flag on the boat.
#6. Maple Syrup
#7. Canadian Hockey Stuff.
#8. Any requests ????
 

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I will bring Mrs Ken....She's Canadian !!! I am just an ex pat limey from Liverpool England originally.
Seriously though I am considering,

#1. Canadian Beer
#2. Canadian Beer
#3. Canadian beer
#4. Canadian Whiskey
#5. Canadian Flag on the boat.
#6. Maple Syrup
#7. Canadian Hockey Stuff.
#8. Any requests ????

All the above!!...well, we will have some time to fine tune things, so do expect a request down the road. Funny, I am half Brit myself. Mom was a war bride. Her family was from Bracknell, Berkshire. Over near Ascot...
 

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Boat AND biker chicks??

lol...

I haven't ran with that crowd in a few years!


It's all good!!! We just get our kicks on the water and bikers get their kicks on the local winding roads... and if you can fit both rides into one weekend, you've got it all!!! See ya on Main Street!!!
 

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Crystal river area is looking good, and it's far enough from Leesburg that it won't be affected by the goings-on there.

Did about 2 hours of welding on the toon trailer last night, beefing up areas that show wear, and fixed a couple of small breaks. Next I'll re-wire it all, with a cannon plug on the back to connect to the lights mounted up on the toon itself. Uh-oh... don't wanna hijack this thread. :eek:
 

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i went through the crystal site to see about reservations for that weekend. And it did not show anything avabile for waterfront just pull throughs. I gonna call them one day and see about it after we have a set place if that turns out to be where we are going to go.
 

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i put in the dates and it showed the fremium and the full but no canal sites.
 

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i went here, does not even show a choice, of sites. http://www.rvonthego.com/reservations.asp will have to clear this up. on it.
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I gonna call them one day and see about it after we have a set place if that turns out to be where we are going to go.

hold the presses, when I spoke to the manager she said she has plenty of sites available at that time, several open together and then a few permanent full timers ( who can't move ) and then another block of open waterfront sites, on the down low, she told me they could move other guests at a time closer to our arrival to keep most of us together....didn't really didn't wanna make a big case out of it, but it would be nice to all be together......

one person, maybe TD should be the contact with mgr at the resort now, at first contact before this becomes a SNAFU, my question is have we picked this place or is it still in the air ?? my thought are that with everyone calling that little office, something will get screwed up, my crystal ball tells me the office will block sites for iboats and then other members will call and somehow we told no more available when in fact they are holding them for us ????

what I posted above was we need to contact the manager at the resort directly to get that favor and the rally rate, I also noted back many pages ago that the Encore company ( that's Crystal Isles corp reservation people, well they basically suck ) and they are famous for overbooking and crossing reservations


then the members wishing to attend can have something like an iboats code word or something to make sure you get one of the site she can set aside for us and the rally rate...........when I spoke to the manager, she said it was best to contact the resort directly, over going thru rvonthego.com ......I think we need to abide by that

sorry for the rant, copied and edited this many times to get the point across while still trying to make sense....lol
 

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OK, DON'T GET THE CART AHEAD OF THE HORSE. we have until Sept 15 for other sites to be submitted.

at the time the choice has been made, directions on how to make reservations will be posted.

if you have a question about the site. please submit it here or thru a PM to ME. i have a direct phone number to the Manager of the site. this way we get the correct info, and not misinformation.

just relax, and enjoy the site picking process.

i will say this, that Crystal River Isle, has gotten the best response. nice water, nice sites, cabins, relatively close to necessities, stores for forgotten items. for those not wanting to camp, or rent a cabin, there are lodgings, in Crystal River.
 

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OK, DON'T GET THE CART AHEAD OF THE HORSE. we have until Sept 15 for other sites to be submitted.

at the time the choice has been made, directions on how to make reservations will be posted....Tashasdaddy...

I agree with Marks post as well as yours. There is a steering committee to help funnel all this information to our members. It is probably not in our best interest for everyone to start contacting CI before we have made the final decision for the site.
Please, read all the posts...there is information here that is being repeated over and over, all of it already been posted once before...
Typically, here in Fla. the snowbirds start heading home by mid April. Some will stay a little later. The reservations may not reflect what is really happening. Let's just hang on and give this event the time we need to fine tune everything!
 

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Sorry to get a big issue started i didnt know that rentprop1 had asked about them.
 

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Don't worry Eshaw150 no one blames you for anything, you just tried something that did not work and stated so, discussion is good, it brought some things out that probably no one had thought of yet. :D
Now for those that may be following this and may have some place that you like please post a link to it. Some of the things we want in a place is; tent and trailer camping, pets allowed, cabins or close by motel for those of us that do not camp, shopping fairly close by so supplies or forgotten items can be acquired relatively easy. The steering committee needs to have this info so we can discuss and present to the rest of the group. We need your help, so suggest something and we will look at it.

On another note I will probably not have much if any computer access until Monday, going to Bristol to the races, leaving in the AM.
 

triumphrick

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Sorry to get a big issue started i didnt know that rentprop1 had asked about them.


Not a big deal, no harm, no foul or fowl or whatever!

I am going there Sunday with the boat. We will use their ramp and make the trek up the river to make sure any of the bigger boats can navigate thru the canal. I won't spend much time bothering the manager with all our stuff, we can save that if we decide this place works. I just need to know what the access is like, and it is less than an hour from us.
 

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Rick that will be great. if you can get in and out, any one can. take lots of pictures of sites, water front, facilities. they will be better than brochures, printed 5 years ago.
 

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I just heard from Mark (rentprop) that their ramp is private and only used by residents of the park, however a public ramp is only several hundred yards away. We will launch there and motor on in..Mark says he may be there also. You should be getting lots of pics...let's see, remember to bring camera...:D
 
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