USPS Centennial Cruise

Round-trip from Ft Lauderdale on Holland America ms Nieuw Amsterdam

Itinerary: Grand Turk, Turks & Caicos; San Juan, Puerto Rico; St Thomas, USVI; Half Moon Cay, Bahamas

This exclusive 2 week promotion for UPSP begins Friday, 19 Oct and runs through 2 November 2012.

Now you can book your 7 day Centennial Caribbean cruise for only $100 per person!!!

This promotion also includes an ONBOARD VALUE BOOK worth $350

Don’t miss this fantastic offer! This is Holland’s newest ship and the itinerary and date are very popular so inventory is limited. Book now to reserve the best possible stateroom location-final payment is due 19 Nov 2013.

Please email Dawn Eckhart at dawnsdeals@earthlink.net or call (727) 403-0406 to join us on this spectacular celebration cruise!

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USPS Centennial Cruise 7 day Eastern Caribbean

2 - 9 February 2014

SPECIAL PRICING FROM $819.00
Inside stateroom from $819.00
Outside stateroom from $979.00
Verandah stateroom from $1,099.00
Suite from $1,879.00
Taxes (Additional) $108.01
Prices are per person, double occupancy, and are subject to availability. Fares in US Dollars. Non-discountable amount is included. Taxes are additional. All information on this communication is subject to change.
Join the United States Power Squadrons Centennial Cruise !
Please contact Dawn Eckhart @  (727) 403-0406
or email DawnsDeals@earthlink.net

Picking the Best Cabins on the Nieuw Amsterdam

http://cruiseadvice.org/CruiseShips/BestCabins.aspx?ShipName=nieuw+amsterdam

Vero Paddle Group 100 Year Anniversary thinking

Thank you Toby. The Cdr is glad to see the Paddle Group in full swing. You are doing a great job and we like the Paddle Group!

As you have heard we, USPS, will be celebrating the 100 year Anniversary. They are in the middle of searching for ideas to promoting the GREAT Event. I can see 100 kayaks on the river soon. It would be a great stunt and I would like you to see how far you can get with this idea.

Please explore this concept. Get our PRO involved so she can get the Press Journal into it. Talk it up at out FNS and see what happens. I wish you well. 

Regards,

Bob 

      

Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2012 4:54:31 PM
Subject: October Paddle Group Outing

Hey guys,

Our next Paddle Group outing will be Saturday October 27 at 9:00 a.m.   This will allow some members who work an opportunity to participate.  We will leave from MacWilliams Park next to the Power Squadron Building.

Our itinerary will include Bethel Creek, Cache Cay (maybe Harold & Janet Ley will provide champagne when we pass by their house!), various northeast islands and a bring-your-own brunch/lunch at a picnic area on one of the islands that has a dock.

In addition to your lunch , please bring the following:

PFD
Whistle
Baler (empty can or jar will do)
Hat
Water Shoes
Sun screen
Water
Insect repellent
Camera (water proof is best)
Trail mix bar (optional)

Please let me know if you plan to attend.  For those who need to rent a kayak, Steve at Adventure Kayak Tours (772-567-0522) will provide them for $25 single/$40 tandem--please call Steve to make your reservations.

I look forward to seeing you on the water!

Toby

Palm Beach Sail & Power Squadron

From: Joyce Newman [mailto:jannpb@aol.com]
Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2012 12:35 PM
To: MARQUISFIN@BELLSOUTH.NET
Subject: Re: Vero Beach Xmas parade

Hi Jack,

The Palm Beach Sail & Power Squadron chartered the Majestic Princess Yacht for 01 December and will participate in the Palm Beach Holiday Boat Parade for Toys for Tots. 

The Squadron theme is "Celebrating USPS 100th Anniversary".  An electronic email invitation was sent through the D/8 blast to invite D/8 members, family and friends to participate in the parade.

Hope to hear from some of the members.  They can contact Lt/C Tom Rowan, P at 561-747-6174 or Nancy Lawrence at

Xmas Parade 2012

Neil Ferguson

Vero Beach Christmas Parade

Thanks for coordinating the VBPS entry into the upcoming parade. I understand that it will be happening on 12/1/2012. I hope we can get more than a dozen boats on floats/trailers entered this year. The attached is the entry form that needs to be submitted.

I had a few thoughts that I will share with you.  We VBPS have done this in the past. We have a lot of banners, flags and so on, in the back room that could be displayed on the boats.

One boat in particular that I really appreciate and hope we can get is the African Queen that is owned by Jim Crawfis.

We also have a lot of posters that were created by various kids, which came about from the Boarman poster contest. They are on top of the file cabinet in the education storage room. I would like to use them to decorate a float yet to be created. 

As you may know USPS will celebrate its 100-year Anniversary in 2014 and I would like to propose we make this coming boat parade theme “ United States Power Squadron 100 Years in the Making” – brought to you by the Vero Beach Power Squadron

(www.verobeachps.com).

Here is a link to some ideas that were dreamed up on the 100 Year Celebration. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyWUT7ySAQg&list=UUwvGGe8FI56EKxFoIcSUYGQ&index=2&feature=plcp

Here is a link that outlines the route for the 2011 parade http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2011/nov/29/vero-beach-christmas-parade-is-dec-3-in-the/

This link is to the Oceanside Business Assoc. (OBA) and Treasure Coast Rotary Club.

http://www.verobeachoba.com/content.aspx?page_id=22&club_id=224070&module_id=102406 . Karen Dodson, parade coordinator, at 772-532-7983.

I will look for some old pictures and share them with you when I find them. You may want to scroll thru some of the old photos posted on our website, as well.

May I suggest a few coordination meetings to generate ideas and buy in by those who will be assisting with - Boating is fun. We will show you how….at the VBPS.

Bob

How about some fireworks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFKogLgj3l0

Just a little explosive event............

Oct YouTube " Ideas for 100 Year"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyWUT7ySAQg&list=UUwvGGe8FI56EKxFoIcSUYGQ&index=1&feature=plcp

JUST CREATED...HOPE YOU ENJOY IT. bE SAFE ON THE WATER. SCULLY

Flash Mob

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/flash-mob-participate-examples/

What is a Flash Mob? A Flash Mob is a large group of people who gather at a public location to perform a pre-defined action, typically a brief dance, and disperse rapidly after the event has concluded.


How Does It Work? Flash Mobs are initiated online. The organizers set up a website, mailing list, and/or a viral message that provides all necessary instructions for potential participants. This of course includes the date, time, and meeting point in the real world, as well as the action to perform, for example a video of the dance moves.

One of Improv Everywhere’s most famous pranks is the ‘Frozen Grand Central’ 

Mission:http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/flash-mob-participate-examples/

On a 3 Day Cruise

Sunflower Raftup

This is from Milt Baker of Blue Water books in Ft. Lauderdale. I think the Sobon’s should organize one in Georgetown.

Charlie

 

Oh, yeah, we did a wonderful sunflower raft--45 boats if I counted correctly--on a magnificent light wind day.  See the attached.  Bluewater was one of the four cardinal anchor boats.  My first time in a sunflower raft.

--Milt

FLYBOARD - What it is!

How it works

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUIW102opak&feature=related

What you can do with it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cd6C1vIyQ3w&feature=fvst

More about it

www.flyboard.com/

www.zapata-racing.com/en/flyboard/

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2 February 1914

At the second conference to consider the question of formation of power squadrons, held at the New York Yacht Club on 2 February 1914, at eight o’clock in the evening, the following vote was passed and signed by the delegates whose names are set against their respective clubs or associations.

Source:  USPS OPERATIONS MANUAL Page 1-1 2012/4 Chapter 1 USPS HISTORY
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Link - http://www.usps.org/100/links.php?monthlink=8&yearlink=2012&welcome=N

Part of a D10 Pitch

District 10 did this for their District and was presented at the National Governing Board Meeting......some ideas!