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All, you are invited to:

Boat builder and wooden boat rendezvous
11 am to 3 pm PT, 28 October 2007 (Dutch treat lunch at noon)
Sugar Barge
1440 Sugar Barge Road
Bethel Island, CA

For information on the restaurant and marina see the Sugar Barge web site
http://www.sugarbarge.com/

For information on where to stay see the California Delta Chambers web site
http://www.californiadelta.org/

For information on the local forum see the SF Bay and Delta forum web site
http://www.boatered.com/forum/forum.asp?FORUM_ID=68

Please reply if you plan to attend and which of the following activities
would interest you and I will put some effort into organizing them:
visiting with fellow boat builders on the dock and admiring their boats,
a Poker Run, round trip race to Swing beach, Tiki carving, duck hunting, other.

Please let me know if you will be bringing your homemade or wooden boat.
I can prepare some name tags with our screen names and ink jet iron on transfer
T shirts for prizes.

The Sugar Barge RV Park is WiFi enabled, they have trailers to rent if you
would like to stay there you can make reservations through their web site.
Hope to see you there. Delta Dawg

It looks like the “Rendezvous” idea is growing legs we have 8 attendees and 4 boats
between the 2 forums and me spreading the word around. I will post the “Rendezvous”
invitation on a BoatUS forum when I find the appropriate group.

I have been thinking about a relay race to Swing Beach and back. There is a hole in the old
levee between Piper Slough and Franks Track that I use, my boat has only 8 inches of draft.
You can see the hole in this picture. http://marinas.com/view/marina/7957
It is a 5 mph no wake zone in Piper Slough but we can get through that hole and have 1-1/2 foot
of water and get to the fast water in Franks Track to go to Swing Beach pick up a flag and
come back. The tide station prediction for Irish Landing is: 10/28/2007 1:17:08 PM +1.16 Low
so this should work.

There is a submerged caterpillar tractor, complete with bulldozer blade nearby. The driver’s
cage of the tractor is only 1-1/2 feet underwater at mean low tide so it is good to avoid.
Below are salient waypoints from my GPS.

SUGAB
N38.02707 W121.61201

SWINGB
N38.02009 W121.60610

Tractor
N38.02857 W121.58960

I monitor VHF frequencies 72-16-9; 4 is for weather, 72 is for recreational boaters, 16 is
for hailing plus the Coast Guard and 9 is to request bridge openings (I don’t have to do that
yet but I bet Terry does).

As a heads up the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s boat is berthed at Sugar Barge across from the
launch ramp so please bring your life jackets, have your CF numbers on your newly built boat,
and use your kill switch lanyard on your wrist. We are going to have a safe, fun time.

Delta Dawg,

Sounds like a good time, count me in, but there is no way I'm following you through the break in the levee. I'll stick to the deeper water.

Rich Coey

Delta Dawg,

Thanks for the invite, however I will be at the Glen-L Gathering at Lake Guntersville in Alabama. This is an event that has been organized by the guys in this forum and many of us are attending--see the thread of "The Gathering" for more info...
http://glen-l.com/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=22

You're just trying to steal our thunder at Guntersville!

I know it's a long way. Have fun! Maybe, we can make a phone hook-up or something Saturday Night!

Bill

Bill, Gayle, we could do an audio link, I get reasonable cellular coverage in this area or we
could do a video link, there is wifi internet access at this end but I would want to test end
to end prior to actual use. If we did video it comes off better planed and scripted which would
take away our fun at each end.

It was not my intent to compete with the Guntersville Gathering in setting up this Bethel Island
Rendezvous but to provide an option for those that could not or did not want to travel. I have
been to Guntersville when I worked at Brown’s Ferry 15 years ago and it is beautiful. I can’t
get the time off from work to come to the Guntersville Gathering so I offered to pull something
together here. Delta Dawg

Dawg,

You another nuke???

I'm retired from GE Nuclear, and was the GE on-site manger for the BFN Unit 3 restart from '91-93. We must have been at that (God forsaken) place at the same time! Don't know if you have heard, but they restarted BFN-1 a couple of months ago. I honestly did not think that would ever happen - the U-1 and U-2 safety systems were just too interconnected.

Were you on-site at BFN or at the Bechtel office in Athens?

I too boated a lot on the Tennessee river, (we launched out of Ditto's Landing) and I locked thru to Gunterville more than once!

peace,

TRM

TerryMc, I worked in the Athens office. I am more IT than nuclear though I have worked on some nuclear projects.

Bill, I will be sending you a couple t-shirts and canvas bags with these graphics
http://picasaweb.google.com/delta.hippo ... 4975621874

I will send them in care of Gayle at the Glen-L office. I am making them to use for prizes. I may also include
a hand carved Tiki (if I get it sanded and finished); a tribe of them have been roughed out with the Foredom typhoon burr.
Delta Dawg

Looks Great! Kens has been thinking along these lines, also.

Bill

DeltaDawg,

I got the t-shirts & bags & tiki today! They look great! Great job on the tiki too ... I will send them off to Bill along with some other stuff I will be sending b4 the Gathering. Bill, let me know if you need them b4 that, okay?

DeltaDawg & Gayle,

Thanks. One shipment works for me. With all the boat parts and my wife's work stuff, the UPS, DHL, FEDEX & .... all know the way to our house.

I think one of the UPS guys just comes by to check on the boat!

Bill

Oh Bill, Oh Bill....keep on telling your self that my friend...the UPS man is just stopping to check on the boat ...YUP...must be it...

YOUR WIFE WOULDNT HAPPEN TO BE HOME AROUND THAT TIME EH????

Steve

Careful....UPS guys have been known to multi-task!!!

As much as my wife has been traveling lately, The UPS guy is by here more days than she is.

Bill

All, here are the hand crafted boats I believe we have coming to Bethel Island 28 Oct please forgive me
if I have been presumptuous.

Monaco
Jet Squirt
Flying Saucer
Wee Hunk dory
Hawaiian Fishing dory
A Tahoe Concourse de Elegance judge's boat

If you bring your hand crafted boat you will get a t-shirt or canvas boating bag with these graphics:
http://picasaweb.google.com/delta.hippo ... 4975621874

I will get colored flyers posted on Bethel Island bulletin boards 2 weeks before our 28 Oct rendezvous.

There is a Classic Yachting Association (CYA) and Antique Classic Boating Society (ACBS) rendezvous at
B&W and Tower Park 6 Oct that has just been posted on the Delta Chambers web site. Delta Dawg