[PSUBS-MAILIST] Bellingham-Vancouver Schedule, Aug 21-24, 2014

Sat Jun 14 21:37:20 EDT 2014

I want to caution you all that while the bulk of the drive from Bellingham to North Vancouver is predictable, traffic at the US / Canada border is less so, and it might be wise to allow for some extra time sitting in the border lineup to get through.  NEXUS card holders have access to an express lane.

Sean

On June 14, 2014 5:22:04 PM MDT, via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:
> 
>BELLINGHAM-VANCOUVER  SESSION SCHEDULE 
>at 
>Best  Western Plus, Lakeway Inn and Convention Center 
>714  Lakeway Drive, Bellingham, WA 98229.  Phone 360-671-1011   
>http://www.thelakewayinn.com/   The hotel will provide vouchers for  
>breakfast each morning in the hotel café upon check-in. 
>PSUBS convention registration is  available at 
>http://psubs.org/convention/2014/   
>Thursday,  August 21st:  Meet & Greet beginning at 4:00 in  Poppe’s Pub
>
>within Lakeway Inn & Conference Center.  Appetizers provided by PSUBS; 
>attendees  are responsible for their own drinks.  At the Muskegon
>convention the 
>Meet & Greet morphed into dinner at  the same location.  I expect the 
>same at 
>Bellingham. 
>Friday,  August 22nd:  Breakfast by order at The Oboe Café  within
>Lakeway 
>Inn.  Dive day.  The start and stop times for dive  operations are
>dependent 
>on the weather.  We also have a meeting room available at  our hotel
>for 
>tech sessions to the extent time allows.  The tech sessions will fit in
>before 
>and/or after dive operations and will focus on updates by sub builders
>and 
>open  forum Q&A.   Dinner at a restaurant within walking  distance of 
>Lakeway Inn.   
>Saturday,  August 23rd:  Breakfast at The Oboe Café.  Depart no later
>than 
>8:30 a.m. for  Nuytco Research, Ltd. at 216 East Esplanade, North
>Vancouver, 
>BC.  Our time at Nuytco is scheduled from  10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. with 
>lunch at a pub nearby at each member’s expense.  This is our mega-tech
>session 
>for the  conference.  This is a fantastic  opportunity for an up-close
>look 
>at the latest technology and systems at  Nuytco’s expanded facility.  
>http://nuytco.com/   
>Extra  event:  The  Vancouver Aquarium and Marine Science Center is 
>directly on our route and about  15 minutes away when we depart Nuytco.
> We have 
>the opportunity to tour it until it closes at 6:00 sharp.  
>http://www.vanaqua.org/   Bellingham is one hour south of the 
>Vancouver Aquarium.  The group 
>(as  well as individuals) can decide to then have dinner at Whitespot
>Café in 
> Vancouver, have dinner in Bellingham at a restaurant within walking 
>distance of  Lakeway Inn, or opt out of the visit to the Aquarium. 
>Sunday,  August 24th:  Breakfast at The Oboe Cafe.  Checkout time is
>12:00 
>noon.  Many will be departing at various times that morning.  Some
>attendees 
>are planning to stay over  for an extra day.  For those who are 
>interested 
>we can have a meeting room after breakfast for an open session and 
>Q&A. 
>At  the Muskegon convention our original dive day got rained out, and
>we 
>held the  dive day on Sunday instead.  A large  number of attendees
>checked 
>out of the hotel but delayed their departures until  later in the day. 
>Some 
>had earlier  flights and had to leave as scheduled.  We have scheduled 
>Bellingham at the driest time of the year, however we  are making every
>effort to 
>be ready to flex the schedule in response to  weather.  One thing that
>will 
>not  vary is the Saturday session at Nuytco.  We all owe Phil a great
>debt 
>of thanks and appreciation for hosting this  day-long event.
>
>
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