Great Lakes Oday Rendevouz scheduled for Aug 11&12, 2007 at Battery Park Marina in Sandusky, Ohio. The marina is holding several slips open for reservations. I know we can show up those East Coast guys with an excellent turnout.
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go for it.........
I'd love NOTHING more than to see you guys have a sucessful rOnDAYvous. Keep posting on all the O'DAy sites until that weekend. Call owners up and get confirmations. Don't stop. Best of Luck Mike C. O'28 "DaCapo"
I'd love NOTHING more than to see you guys have a sucessful rOnDAYvous. Keep posting on all the O'DAy sites until that weekend. Call owners up and get confirmations. Don't stop. Best of Luck Mike C. O'28 "DaCapo"
The first time...
...is the toughest to pull off, for sure. Now that we "East Coasters" have successfully pulled off our 5th annual rOnDAYvous, it's easier to provide a little long-range hindsight, and it seems to me that the first time was the toughest, if only because it was a tentative step into the unknown. At the time, no one knew each other, except as names from the Internet. It was mainly a lot of curiosity that got several of us to plan on getting together at one central location (City Island). Each year after that, the event has tended to build on the word of mouth from previous successes. To get that initial cadre of O'day cruisers to attend, you have to be a bit relentless, a bit of a noodge, and count on not much more than those who are willing to travel, say, a day or two on the water to reach the event site. If I had to guess, I'd say you may not get sailors from beyond Lake Erie, if only because of the convenience. But so what. Even just a half-dozen attendees at the first one will generate a buzz that will all but insure more at future events. You should check out the owners' directory on this web site to identify O'dayers from a target area, and then do your damnedest to convince them that making the trip to Sandusky is well worth their while. I'm confident that you and other Midwest O'dayers probably recognize a handful of names (skipper and/or boat) from your general area that appear regularly on this bulletin board and related sites. This is a golden opportunity for one and all to put faces to the names, and go on from there. Like Mike said, I wish you the very best in pulling this off. No matter how many attend, it'll no doubt be a great time, if only for the wonderful socializing that seems to happen automatically when O'day owners get together. Pete s/v EmmieLou (O-322) Little Silver, NJ
...is the toughest to pull off, for sure. Now that we "East Coasters" have successfully pulled off our 5th annual rOnDAYvous, it's easier to provide a little long-range hindsight, and it seems to me that the first time was the toughest, if only because it was a tentative step into the unknown. At the time, no one knew each other, except as names from the Internet. It was mainly a lot of curiosity that got several of us to plan on getting together at one central location (City Island). Each year after that, the event has tended to build on the word of mouth from previous successes. To get that initial cadre of O'day cruisers to attend, you have to be a bit relentless, a bit of a noodge, and count on not much more than those who are willing to travel, say, a day or two on the water to reach the event site. If I had to guess, I'd say you may not get sailors from beyond Lake Erie, if only because of the convenience. But so what. Even just a half-dozen attendees at the first one will generate a buzz that will all but insure more at future events. You should check out the owners' directory on this web site to identify O'dayers from a target area, and then do your damnedest to convince them that making the trip to Sandusky is well worth their while. I'm confident that you and other Midwest O'dayers probably recognize a handful of names (skipper and/or boat) from your general area that appear regularly on this bulletin board and related sites. This is a golden opportunity for one and all to put faces to the names, and go on from there. Like Mike said, I wish you the very best in pulling this off. No matter how many attend, it'll no doubt be a great time, if only for the wonderful socializing that seems to happen automatically when O'day owners get together. Pete s/v EmmieLou (O-322) Little Silver, NJ
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