Cape Dory/Robinhood Rendevous

[Joe Wysong]

Here’s the latest information on the Cape Dory/Robinhood rendevous which will be held at Robinhood Marine Friday, August 6th - Sunday, August 8th. Moorings and slips will be available from Robinhood Marine by advance reservation. Moorings and slips without electric will be $20 per night. Slips with electric are $1.50 per foot per night.

For those coming by land, we will have a list of local Bed & Breakfasts and motels that you can choose from. We invite anyone with an interest in Cape Dory/Robinhood Yachts and Poweryachts to join us.

The event will officially begin on Saturday morning with greetings from many of the Robinhood staff, including Cape Dory founder Andrew (Andy) Vavolotis. Following Andy’s greetings, Dave Perry, director of sales at Robinhood Yacht Sales and long-time sales director of Cape Dory Yachts will give a brief talk and respond to questions owners may have about their yacht’s construction history, etc. Several of the craftspeople and engineers who were directly involved in the construction of Cape Dory yachts are now working at Robinhood either as part of the yard crew or in yacht construction. If you have a late model CD, there is a good possibility you’ll meet someone involved in the construction of your boat.

We’ll also have an opportunity to see a Robinhood 36 being built. Robinhood has enough advance orders for us to be sure that a 36 will be under construction in early August.

Current plans (open to change as participants share their preferences) call for a Saturday afternoon sail, a late afternoon informal outdoor wine/beer/eats gathering on the lawn overlooking Riggs Cove. Joe McCarty, general manager at Robinhood has been kind enough to provide an awning that will cover about sixty people in the event of rain.

We’ll have an opportunity to say goodbye on Sunday morning with a continental breakfast, again on the lawn overlooking Riggs Cove.

We hope to work things out so that the per person cost (not including moorings, slips, or motel rooms) will be in the $20-$25 range for the event. This assumes a “low-budget” meal on Saturday.

The event is being organized by Steve Files and Joe Wysong. It was Steve’s idea. Joe came aboard because he and his wife have kept their CD330, the Annie Laurie, at Robinhood for the last decade so he has “on-site” experience.

For now, do not contact Robinhood to make mooring/slip reservations. Dockmaster Eric Varney is in college and Robinhood doesn’t want to start taking August slip reservations for a couple of months.

About staying in the loop and receiving ongoing updates and registration information:

If you received this notice via E-mail and you want to receive continual updates, do nothing. If this is just cluttering up your mail box, let us know and we’ll take your name off the list.

If you found this notice on a bulletin board and didn’t receive an E-mail version, send us your E-mail address if you’d like to be added to the E-mail list. This is the most reliable method of keeping up to date and receiving registration information.

If this came to you as first class mail via the Postal Service, you will need contact us to make sure you receive updated information. Robinhood supplied us with a list of 450 Cape Dory owners in New England and New York, and we simply can’t afford to repeatedly mail to the entire list. If you have an E-mail address, send us that. Otherwise, fill out the enclosed post card, put a stamp on it, and send it back to us. If you are uncertain about attending, but interested, we’ll be happy to include you in future mailings. We will continue to mail to all who return the post card. Please, in order to keep our costs down, if you have an E-mail address, send us that and don’t return the post card.

Thanks,

Steve & Joe

How to contact us:

via E-mail:

CapeDory@gestalt.org (messages sent here will be automatically forwarded to both Steve and Joe who will respond either jointly or separately).

by telephone:

Steve at: 1-800-445-5980 (home phone with voice mail backup)

Joe at 914-691-7192 – a business phone answered 8-4 Monday through Friday eastern time.

by mail:

Cape Dory Rendevous
PO Box 990
Highland NY 12528-0990



CapeDory@gestalt.org

[zeida cecilia-mendez]

hi, guys! I can not sail Bandolera II all the way up there now, but am planning to come, and will be staying in one of those bed&Bkfst. you mention. Count me in. Cheers.
Zeida



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