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While we continue to discuss things in this thread, I wanted to post a link to the thread with the outcome of our discussion.
Here is the final thread with the 2006 Calendar year on it:
http://www.scubaboard.com/showthread.php?t=123220
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Let's talk about getting a schedule of boat dives together for 2006. We can put up polls in separate threads to vote on things when we get to that point, but for now we should just talk about what we want to do.
I'll start it off with a random collection of thoughts to get things going. Remember this is just a discussion and I'm not telling people what to do. That's up to all of you.
I'm thinking that we should do this on the 4th Saturday of every month because we do the Wrinkles Dive on the 2nd Saturday of every month. This spreads things out a bit during the month.
Taking some figures from our SoCal Roll Call, we have the following:
16 people north of LA County (11% of total)
61 people in LA County (40% of total)
33 people in Orange County (22% of total)
28 people in San Diego County (18% of total)
14 people in San Bernadino and Riverside Counties (9% of total)
152 total
Maybe we should rotate the locations in a way that puts more boats closer to the majority of people on the board. Here are some thoughts about this. I've just chosen some boats for the sake of the example, we still need to decide on exactly which boats we'll use.
Los Angeles has 40% of the members and Orange County is next with 22% of the members.
Orange County is about 25 miles from Long Beach where the Sundiver is and about 40 miles from Redondo Beach where the Pacific Star is. Orange county is about 85 miles from San Diego where the Lois Ann is. So Long Beach and Redondo Beach are closest to 62 percent of the people on the SoCal Roll Call.
Here is an idea I've come up with that might work or might help us come up with a better way. We could go from the Sundiver in Long Beach to the Lois Ann in San Diego to the Pacific Star in Redondo Beach to the Peace in Ventura and then start over. That would put us in San Diego and Ventura areas once per quarter and the Los Angeles area twice per quarter but on different boats.
Now on the subject of boats. I have not discussed deals with any of the boats except the Sun Diver. That was the quickest and easiest for me to get us started on our boat dives to see if the idea would work. We were able to work out a deal with no commitments, which is something that we need to do because none of us is going to want to be financially responsible for a whole boat if it does not get filled.
A monthly boat dive seems to have been popular enough with our experiment on the Sundiver to move forward and plan the next year. I think that the low attendance for Oct. 1 on the Sundiver is due to the fact that it's the day after opening night for lobster season. By the way, there is still plenty of room on that boat if anyone would like to join us.
We need to decide on which boats we would like to consider for San Diego, LA, and Ventura. Once we talk about which boats we should consider, we can vote on which one we want for each area and then I can talk to the people that run those boats and find out what they can do for us. Maybe we'll talk to the #1 and #2 choices for each area to see what would work out best for us and then have a run off.
So, let's do some brainstorming! What are you thoughts about what the best way to do this is?
Christian
While we continue to discuss things in this thread, I wanted to post a link to the thread with the outcome of our discussion.
Here is the final thread with the 2006 Calendar year on it:
http://www.scubaboard.com/showthread.php?t=123220
--------- end update ----------
Let's talk about getting a schedule of boat dives together for 2006. We can put up polls in separate threads to vote on things when we get to that point, but for now we should just talk about what we want to do.
I'll start it off with a random collection of thoughts to get things going. Remember this is just a discussion and I'm not telling people what to do. That's up to all of you.
I'm thinking that we should do this on the 4th Saturday of every month because we do the Wrinkles Dive on the 2nd Saturday of every month. This spreads things out a bit during the month.
Taking some figures from our SoCal Roll Call, we have the following:
16 people north of LA County (11% of total)
61 people in LA County (40% of total)
33 people in Orange County (22% of total)
28 people in San Diego County (18% of total)
14 people in San Bernadino and Riverside Counties (9% of total)
152 total
Maybe we should rotate the locations in a way that puts more boats closer to the majority of people on the board. Here are some thoughts about this. I've just chosen some boats for the sake of the example, we still need to decide on exactly which boats we'll use.
Los Angeles has 40% of the members and Orange County is next with 22% of the members.
Orange County is about 25 miles from Long Beach where the Sundiver is and about 40 miles from Redondo Beach where the Pacific Star is. Orange county is about 85 miles from San Diego where the Lois Ann is. So Long Beach and Redondo Beach are closest to 62 percent of the people on the SoCal Roll Call.
Here is an idea I've come up with that might work or might help us come up with a better way. We could go from the Sundiver in Long Beach to the Lois Ann in San Diego to the Pacific Star in Redondo Beach to the Peace in Ventura and then start over. That would put us in San Diego and Ventura areas once per quarter and the Los Angeles area twice per quarter but on different boats.
Now on the subject of boats. I have not discussed deals with any of the boats except the Sun Diver. That was the quickest and easiest for me to get us started on our boat dives to see if the idea would work. We were able to work out a deal with no commitments, which is something that we need to do because none of us is going to want to be financially responsible for a whole boat if it does not get filled.
A monthly boat dive seems to have been popular enough with our experiment on the Sundiver to move forward and plan the next year. I think that the low attendance for Oct. 1 on the Sundiver is due to the fact that it's the day after opening night for lobster season. By the way, there is still plenty of room on that boat if anyone would like to join us.
We need to decide on which boats we would like to consider for San Diego, LA, and Ventura. Once we talk about which boats we should consider, we can vote on which one we want for each area and then I can talk to the people that run those boats and find out what they can do for us. Maybe we'll talk to the #1 and #2 choices for each area to see what would work out best for us and then have a run off.
So, let's do some brainstorming! What are you thoughts about what the best way to do this is?
Christian
, the Great Escape, the CeeRay. 
have decided to get married in the evening on September 30th!! Knocks us all out of opening night and out of an early boat call the next day!!! Although if anyone sneaks out of the party early, odds are they'll have dive gear in their cars :05: "Is that a depth-finder in the pocket of your tuxedo? Or are you just.....?)
