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eric

Hi Eric,

I see that there has not been big response here in the forum, about the idea of this gathering. HOWEVER! It's been my experience, in organizing our very successful junkets in Maine, in the USA, that response here in the fora, and also in the JR Facebook group, was very minimal. The thing that worked was sending an email to everybody in the regions that seemed close enough for somebody to consider coming. In the US, this meant I sent a group email to pretty much everybody east of the Mississippi River, and in Canada following north on the same rough line. Then I kept up with whoever wrote back.

At the moment I am no longer the JRA Sailing Secretary, as we desperately needed somebody to step forward for the Chair at our last committee election. However, our new Sailing Secretary is contending with some family health issues, so I'd be happy to help with some of the details if you might like that.

The first task, if you'd like to send out a group email, is to decide which groups of members to include. This might be easiest by country, for this situation. Who do you think might come, from countries that seem close enough? Here in the USA we have had members travel up to about 1000 miles (!) for the last three junkets.

You can get the email addresses from the member directory, by downloading the full list and then selecting members for each country, or state/province/county if that makes more sense. Once you have that, you select just their email addresses. I am not very skilled with the Excel program, but I was able to make a list of addresses for our mailing. Maybe you are good with Excel, and can do this yourself? If not, I'd be happy to help, if you could tell me a list of what countries should realistically be included. Or maybe another member who is a computer whiz, and is somewhere within range of Brest, might like to get involved in this?? Because of this possibility, I am posting this here, rather than sending you a direct email ;-)

I really hope this gathering works out – I wish I was close enough to come. Seeing the boats that are coming from China, as well as connecting with other JRA members, would be so much fun!

Cheers,
Shemaya

Hi Eric,

Hey, that's great – especially that you can manage Excel :-).

Are you interested in people coming who do not have their boat with them? Here in Maine, we have people come from inland areas, and from places that are too far away to bring their boat but they would like to come to the junket. You might consider writing to people in areas that are not on the coast, but are within traveling range. Sometimes folks trailer smaller junk rig boats from places like that too.

If you like, you could include me in your email list – chair@junkrigassociation.org – and I will help to let people know, especially through the Facebook group. There are a lot of folks in that group in the UK and Europe. It doesn't seem to work as a primary way to get people involved, most of the time, but I do think it helps when people see reminders. And of course it's always good to post the notice here on our JRA website, under Members' Events.

That's great that you have some ideas about contacting junk rig sailors who are not in the JRA – it's always so great to get everybody together!

When you say "animation" does that mean the same as something like "activities?" So on land and on water activities? It'll be great to see what gets organized. I hope you take lots of pictures, when the time comes!

Cheers,
Shemaya

Bonjour

I hope you are all well.

I was waiting for the Brest2020 organisation to postpone the junket but obviously the situation is not any more compatible with the organisation of a junket in July in west Britany.

I'm sorry to have to cancel but it is the only wise decision.

I'll try and organise a junket in Britany next year. It could be during "la semaine du golf de Morbihan" in May (a very pleasant place for spring sailing) or in July around Douarnenez, or.....

Amicalement

PS : I just found yesterday that the Brest2020 event is postpone, without any information on a possible date.