Philadelphia Festival
Update: See Chuck's 7/19 comment on this post. The Philly race is full; we are on the waiting list.
Captain Chuck has completed the registration form for our entry in the Philadelphia Dragonboat Festival (October 2nd), and Treasurer Carolyn is sending in the deposit that reserves our spot in the race. The total registration cost is $1000 ($50 each). Half of that ($25) is due now to Carolyn.
Laurie will take care of organizing the hotel arrangements. (Thanks, Laurie!) Please start thinking now about whether you'll want a room for one night or two. The festival is on Saturday from 8 AM till 5:30 PM.
We'll need a full boat, and it would be great to have 21 or 22 paddlers sign up (plus the drummer and steersperson) so that we won't be short of paddlers if anyone gets sick that weekend. At this point, we can expect to paddle in three races that day.
Something to think about: they have a limited number of 10x10 tents that they'll rent to participating teams for $250. Are interested in this? It would be a place to meet and store gear and shelter us from whatever weather there may be.
For the earlier blog post on this race (with a link to the festival website itself), please see paddlesup.blogspot.com/2004/05/philadelphia-dragon-boat-festival.html .
posted by Kit at 7/12/2004 08:19:00 AM
5 Comments:
I just briefly looked at the Philadelphia Dragon Boat site--they have recommended one hotel the Philadelphia Marriott in Center City for $99 per night
and a youth hostel--dormitory style for around $18/night plus some fees. I went to Orbitz and the hotels ranged from $80- 175 for a three star and $54- 108 + for a two star. The $54 one is a Super Eight in Mt. Laurel NJ which is 11.1 miles from Center City--the festival is on the Schuylkill which
is probably 20 min. from Center City, considering traffic. What I really need to know is if people want to have a room for both Friday and Saturday night or just for Friday--also what is a general price range that people are willing to spend.Please e-mail me and let me know l-butler@peapc.com.
The Parsippany, NJ--Oct. 3rd is the only date that works for me---that is assuming that Montreal is too far for just a weekend.
I suppose another alternative is to still go to Philly and make ourselves available as fill-ins for teams that don't have a full boat.
I agree that NJ would be a good place to wrap up the season, as many of us have already reserved that date. It is not too far and from their website seems that it would be a fun event. Montreal would have to a long weekend, not to mention a long paddle (that's 12 races end to end!!). But Montreal would be fun and I would definitely consider it.
The October 3rd Parsippany race is not a standard db race but a "daredevil challenge." As Lisa said, this sounds like fun: follow the October 3 date link from http://www.njdragonboat.org/njrace to find out more. Teams are comprised of 6 people, and the challenges are paddling-related (though not all paddling).
Chuck, could you give us a sense by Wednesday of which race it looks like we might get to, based on the info you've received from people about their availability? We'll need to make travel plans and schedule days off, etc.....
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