John: Man, this sounds great. I can't wait to get going on it.
Rix Benson --- John Martinez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Okay Perps- > > The deadline for signups has come and gone. There > are > now officialy 63 tyers in the Perpetual Fly Box > Swap. > Thanks to each and every one of you for signing up, > this is going to be a great swap. > > I'm sending this to the list, due to the fact that I > lost some files, especially for the first 20 or 25 > that signed up. If you have not sent me an email > with > your mailing address since my last request on the > 29th, please do so as soon as you can. Right now I > have 35 mailing addresses on file. > > Thanks to everyone who has sent me ideas, > suggestions > and tips, I appreciate all of them. Since this is my > first time out as a host I need all the help I can > get. Below is a quick rundown of how the swap is > going > to work, as far as mailing the flies and so on. I > assume everyone knows by now how this swap works. If > you have any questions, please email me off the VFB > list. > > Everyone needs to tie ten (10) trout flies, > remember, > you do NOT need to tie as many flies as there are > tyers. If someone sends me 63 flies, I'm keeping the > extras! <VBG>. The flies can be any kind of trout > fly > you want, dries, wets, streamers, terrestrials, your > choice, but no super easy flies like San Juan worms. > The first batch of flies you send should be all the > same, just like a regular swap. > > I'm going to divide the swap into four groups. One > group will be all the non-US Perps. Even though this > group will be smaller (not sure how many yet, that's > why I need addresses from everyone), I figure by the > time the box goes from the US to Canada to the UK to > Europe to Australia and back, the boxes that stayed > in > the US should have made it around their larger > groups. > I may even mail the non-US box before the rest of > them > go out. If everyone would use priority mail (2-3 day > delivery), it would really help. It's up to each > individual, but getting insurance would be a very, > very good idea. With that many flies, each box is > worth $300+ at retail, it would be a real shame to > lose one. The cost for insurance is not that much > and > if everyone does it, it will be fair. > > Deadline to have the flies to me is New Years Eve, > Dec > 31st. I will get the flies sorted, packaged and > mailed > no later than the 15th of January. There will be 158 > flies per box (actually 630 flies don't divide > evenly, > but I will throw in a couple extra). I will have the > info on who is in what group posted on the website > as > soon as I get addresses. The website is at: > <www.geocities.com/jodemior> > > Everybody in the swap has a number from when they > joined up, Jimmy Moore is #1 (right, Jimmy?), I'm > #38 > (I think) and so on. Please use your list number to > toe tag your flies, both the first batch you send > and > any flies you put in later. Just put your number and > the name of the fly on the toe tag. You can send the > recipe to me via email. I want to post all the flies > and recipes on the site, so people can go to it and > find out who tied what and how to tie it. I'm also > going to include small notebooks with each package > for > people to sign, make comments (nice ones, okay?) and > so on, kind of a journal of the boxes' travels. > > The final goal of the swap is to auction off the > flies, boxes and journals on the list and donate the > money to a worthy fishing or conservation related > cause. How we do that will be up to a vote of all > the > Perps. Maybe we can retire one box at a time while > the > others keep going. Maybe ending up with one box that > just keeps making the rounds, a real perpetual swap. > > Didn't means this to be so long. Hope this works for > everyone. Email me if you have any questions. If > anyone wants to drop, please let me know as soon as > you can. Hoping everybody stays in. > > -John > Oegon > > > > > > > ===== > The River- > You passers-by, who share my journey, > You move and change,I move and am the same; > You move and are gone, I move and remain. > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now > http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/ __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/
