A little more 1K

The run is on and the dates will stay the same July 19th to the 22nd. But due to business obligations and a few other things Boxy does not the time to organize the run! But we sure hope he will be in attendance!!!!!

MINXGUY, glashole and Mop will do their best to fill his shoes, Ken MINXGUY has had a cottage on the river for years and know his way around, glashole is on the Canadian side and brings his knowledge of that side, I have been going up to the 1000 Islands for many years and will help as much as I can. We will all do our best to make this one of the very BEST 1K Donzi runs yet!

The home base will once again be the Edgewood resort... www.theedgewoodresort.com ... 1-888-EDGEWOOD (33439663), ask for Janine, or Cathy. The hotel will block off rooms and try to keep us together. They are operating a scaled down winter schedule, so you may not get someone right away, but they will phone back quickly.

Make your reservations early, this is an extremely popular tourist area. I would shoot for 45 to 60 days in advance everything books tight around the time we want!

They have rebuilt the older docks, and have added some new ones, they will have us all together on the docks if possible the key is to get you registration in early as you can. Make sure to give you boat size when you call Janine or Cathy will handle the rest. They have river rooms where most of the group stays or rooms to suit most any budget, all are quite nice and walking distance to the docks. The weather in July in this part of the world is fantastic, and Alexandria Bay ..... www.alexbay.org .... will be in full summer season swing.

Get you reservations early the 1000 Islands is one place you will never forget! Just ask anyone who has been there it abounds with both beauty and mystique!

Kingston is one place on the list of must sees, there are few other other quaint towns we may hit. We will have a flexible but hopefully a full enough agenda to please both the captains, mates and the little people! The July weather is about as good as it gets but if by chance the weather is not to our liking no sweat there are several really great places to go by land or tour boat. We will try to have at least one or two possibly three neats thing to do each day plus some great river running, and to be sure a lazy trip through the islands so bring your cameras and bathing suits. Splitting into groups for different events is an option to keep eveyone happy!

April 20 Update: And a thank you to Boxy! It turns out the passport thing is not as big a deal as was first thought!
A quote from "Boxy" Phil, just to be clear. A Passport is not required to enter Canada, but US Customs and Immigration requires all travelers, Americans included, to show proper documentation to re-enter the US..... I did a little more asking from the locals, picture ID and boat reg will get you by!

Phil

Time for a BUMP!

Mid July may seem like it is a long ways away, not true. The 1000 Islands is without doubt one of the best boating places you will ever go! But is also major tourist area and will be booking up fairly quick, those of you that are making plans for the 1K run should be making you lodging plans very soon. The Edgewood will be the main place that most will stay at, Ken Minxguy and Tim Morris have another place about 1000 feet south of the Edgewood with some softer on the pocket rates. They should be posting some info on it soon.

Phil

Thanks to the MinxMan, here it is -

Alexandria Bay Lodge: www.abaylodge.com
315-482-9332, 1-877-417-7827 (fax 315-482-5825)

I spoke with Judy, booked rooms for Don Mugford & myself & Cindy.
$119/nite + $1/ft dock.

Don't know what I'll do with the money I saved, get some
more Koolaid I guess.

The docks at the Edgewood have been done over so they are even nicer!

A little added treat!! As it stands there is a very good chance we will be having the factory rep from Garmin coming tot he 1K meet, Ken Minxguy spoke with him a a trade show. He was quite interested in coming, he can tell us about the hows & whys of GPS and who knows maybe we can get some goodies out of it.

Phil