boldts
08-17-2001, 06:14 PM
Everyone,
I'm getting a head start on the event for next year. I spoke with Frieda at the Jamestown Resort today. Mark it on your 2002 calendar. The dates will be May 9th through the 14th. She has blocked off a group of rooms for us and my understanding is that there are cabins available if you have a large group coming with you. Right now and I understand that it is very early for most of you to be planning, there are only a couple rooms that have been reserved for the weekend of the 11th and 12th. (There is a wedding going on at the yachtclub where we held our meetings this year on the 11th, but the rest of the days, it is ours to use again. On that Saturday, we will have the meeting room in the resort for our use. My point is, lets fill up the resort with Donzi owners before others can start to get in there. The other advantage to registering early is dock slips. Frieda said there are 40 slips available. Currently, if everyone who was at this years event returns next year, there are 45 club members scheduled to be there. If we claim all of the dock space, there will not be any other boat models mixed in with our Donzis. (Except one very cool Formula Jr.) Now, I can hear the wheels turning all ready. The number of Donzi boats at the Awakening goal is 80. This I understand can be a problem. State Dock is where David Hicks (Bandit) docked his houseboat group and his 30' Black Widow, under cover. If he got 75' of boats in one slip, we could easily get 6 18'ers in one. Split that dock fee with 6 other owners and you see my point. I can also recomend the State Park as a place to stay while at the event. Only negative is the winding drive to the lodge, but it is a beautiful drive. I've not contacted the State Park lodge yet, but its on my list of to do's. I'm pushing for more discount for club members this year also. If you are not a member of the Midwest Donzi Club and would like to be, go to http://www.mwdonziclub.com and click on the Membership Button. Fill out the form and it will send an e-mail to me with your information which will then be displayed in the Members page. If you can, send a picture of your Donzi. I am creating a link to that picture where your boat is listed with your name on the Members page.
Bookmark the Midwest Donzi Club's page and look for updates and information on AOTH II. I haven't started working on the site yet, but it will be coming together very soon. The Members page is being updated as I receive your information. Contact the owners that are coming from your state. This year 4 of us from Ohio got together and traveled together to Lake Cumberland. It was a fun caravan and you know other drivers on the road were impressed also. Especially when we all made our gas stops. I'm really looking forward to getting this event together again this year and hopefully with the early start, I won't have as many really late nights at the computer. Yeah right!!
Pass it on to anyone you see with a Donzi. All models are welcome and the more different models, all the better. That includes you Donzi owning fishermen also. I'd like to see one of those fish boats with twin outboards on the back in person. If you haven't had a chance to pick up an August edition of HOT Boat magazine, they did an article on this years event. I hope to be able to do that again next year and who knows, maybe I can get SpeedVision to do a show on our Donzis. All of these ideas are being looked into. Make your plans and reservations early. More to come as it developes. :D
I'm getting a head start on the event for next year. I spoke with Frieda at the Jamestown Resort today. Mark it on your 2002 calendar. The dates will be May 9th through the 14th. She has blocked off a group of rooms for us and my understanding is that there are cabins available if you have a large group coming with you. Right now and I understand that it is very early for most of you to be planning, there are only a couple rooms that have been reserved for the weekend of the 11th and 12th. (There is a wedding going on at the yachtclub where we held our meetings this year on the 11th, but the rest of the days, it is ours to use again. On that Saturday, we will have the meeting room in the resort for our use. My point is, lets fill up the resort with Donzi owners before others can start to get in there. The other advantage to registering early is dock slips. Frieda said there are 40 slips available. Currently, if everyone who was at this years event returns next year, there are 45 club members scheduled to be there. If we claim all of the dock space, there will not be any other boat models mixed in with our Donzis. (Except one very cool Formula Jr.) Now, I can hear the wheels turning all ready. The number of Donzi boats at the Awakening goal is 80. This I understand can be a problem. State Dock is where David Hicks (Bandit) docked his houseboat group and his 30' Black Widow, under cover. If he got 75' of boats in one slip, we could easily get 6 18'ers in one. Split that dock fee with 6 other owners and you see my point. I can also recomend the State Park as a place to stay while at the event. Only negative is the winding drive to the lodge, but it is a beautiful drive. I've not contacted the State Park lodge yet, but its on my list of to do's. I'm pushing for more discount for club members this year also. If you are not a member of the Midwest Donzi Club and would like to be, go to http://www.mwdonziclub.com and click on the Membership Button. Fill out the form and it will send an e-mail to me with your information which will then be displayed in the Members page. If you can, send a picture of your Donzi. I am creating a link to that picture where your boat is listed with your name on the Members page.
Bookmark the Midwest Donzi Club's page and look for updates and information on AOTH II. I haven't started working on the site yet, but it will be coming together very soon. The Members page is being updated as I receive your information. Contact the owners that are coming from your state. This year 4 of us from Ohio got together and traveled together to Lake Cumberland. It was a fun caravan and you know other drivers on the road were impressed also. Especially when we all made our gas stops. I'm really looking forward to getting this event together again this year and hopefully with the early start, I won't have as many really late nights at the computer. Yeah right!!
Pass it on to anyone you see with a Donzi. All models are welcome and the more different models, all the better. That includes you Donzi owning fishermen also. I'd like to see one of those fish boats with twin outboards on the back in person. If you haven't had a chance to pick up an August edition of HOT Boat magazine, they did an article on this years event. I hope to be able to do that again next year and who knows, maybe I can get SpeedVision to do a show on our Donzis. All of these ideas are being looked into. Make your plans and reservations early. More to come as it developes. :D