<Let's see if the fc00 list is up yet. I bet it isn't...> At 3:52 PM -0400 on 9/20/99, Declan McCullagh wrote, on cypherpunks: > Just maybe. Depends on how long it takes -- I can't justify an overwhelming > amount of time away from the office. Seems to me there'd be a huge > difference in terms of time and cost from Boston and Miami. (Heck, how > about Norfolk or somewhere in MD/VA near DC?) Quite a long haul from either place, in fact, and I'd rather *sail*, anyway :-). Of course, booking a block of cruise-ship rooms out of Miami, or San Juan, or St. Thomas even, might not be a bad thing. Can't really expect it to park in Anguilla for a week, though, as Ryan notes below. I've been kicking around the idea of boat-cabin-as-hotel-room ever since we started the Financial Cryptography conference; you can't look down on the brilliant turquoise water of Sandy Ground from the cliff near the InterIsland by Raffi's and *not* imagine sitting on the the world's greatest back porch, Rum-something-or-other in hand, watching the sun go down. We could never make it work out, for one reason or another. This year, however, a friend on our Boston harbor round-the-cans crew owns 50-footer for charter out of Virgin Gorda, and some of that crew, and some sailing FCXX regulars, and I, have been kicking around the idea pretty seriously between tacks and climbs to the next high side. I've got 5 to 8 people so far, I think, which probably fills the boat at the high side of *that*, though people will probably sign on and drop off. We're probably looking at two weeks on the boat, with various people dropping in and out at various locations. We haven't figured out whether we'd start in the BVIs or end there, though. And, of course, the idea is to park on Sandy Ground for the conference no matter what we do. I have to be on Anguilla some part of the weekend before and/or after, but, besides that, it doesn't matter to me, when or where we sail at all :-). I can see it now... Do the conference in the AM, and sail a bit in the PM... Yes, boys and girls, there *is* a reason I invented the conference with *no* afternoon sessions... :-). Chartering a sailboat on Saint Martin/Maarten (the island is French/Dutch and has a nice, big runway with lots of direct flights to Europe and the States) and sailing over to Anguilla is pretty straightforward, and the only reason we're even thinking about sailing a boat, overnight, out of sight of land, all the way across the Gut from the Virgins is, well, because we *can*, :-), having a boat full of sailing "ringers", as it were. But, however you want do it, FC00 is in the middle of the Carribbean high season, so getting your boat chartered should be done quickly, if it's still even possible. Cheers, RAH At 3:52 PM -0400 on 9/20/99, Declan McCullagh wrote, on cypherpunks: > Just maybe. Depends on how long it takes -- I can't justify an overwhelming > amount of time away from the office. Seems to me there'd be a huge > difference in terms of time and cost from Boston and Miami. (Heck, how > about Norfolk or somewhere in MD/VA near DC?) > > -Declan > > > At 05:25 9/19/1999 -0700, Ryan Lackey wrote: >>Would anyone be interested in potentially chartering a boat (or block-booking >>on a cruise) from a major East Coast city (probably Boston, NYC, Miami) >>to Anguilla for fc00? It'll certainly not be a cost savings over >>flying, but would be far more fun. This idea came up last year, but didn't >>happen. >> >>(a cruise would presumably terminate in Sint Maarten, which is an 8 nm >>ferry away; a chartered boat could hang around and be housing...) >> >>There are also possibilities for getting group airfare from SFO to >>cruise port in the US... >> >>-- >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>http://www.venona.com/rdl/ >>1024D/4096g 0xD2E0301F B8B8 3D95 F940 9760 C64B DE90 07AD BE07 D2E0 301F >> ----------------- Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
