Trip is always from a Thursday to a Tuesday. WHERE: Lake Shasta in northern CA. About a 4 1/2 hour drive from Truckee; 2 1/2 hour drive from Sacramento airport. COSTS: Typically around $400. Day Trippers are charged $150 per day for one or two days. Prices are approximated and subject to change. ADDITIONAL INFO:
1) Deadline for paying the initial $400 is the end of July. However, the first 20 peop
le will be guaranteed spots.
2) The balance owed will be calculated ASAP after the trip is completed, usually within a week or two. Please be prompt with paying the balance owed.
3) If you are not arriving with the initial group on Thursday, dock pick-ups must be arranged and confirmed BEFORE THE HOUSEBOAT LEAVES THE DOCK ON THURSDAY. Please be at the dock at the appointed time. The pick-up boat will not wait around for you if you are late.
4)There will be no pick-ups after 7pm. People arriving after 7pm will need to spend the night in Redding or in their car and will be picked-up the following day.
5) There are only 4 staterooms on the boat. These are typically taken by Don, Bryan, Juba and Josh. If a stateroom or staterooms become available, it/they will be awarded by the executive committee as they see fit (typically things such as promptness of payment, seniority or duration of stay are taken into account). Other sleeping accommodations are either somewhere else on the boat (upper deck or galley couches) or on shore.
6) If anyone wants to bring a friend, they must be cleared with the executive committee (pictures and a list of turn-on's and turn-off's are helpful).
7) Everyone on board will be assigned to a mealtime or two where they are responsible for cooking or clean-up. Assignments will be delegated by the executive committee.
8) Generally speaking, everyone on the boat is responsible to clean up after themselves. This applies to the bathrooms, ski/surf boat and on shore.
9) No feminine hygiene products are allowed in the toilets. this is very important as they tend to clog the toilets and make them unusable. You would think that this point need not be made, but one time, at band camp...............
10) As much as possible, p*e on shore or in the lake. This is particularly important when there is a large group. FULL TANKS SMELL!!
11) There will be loud music! At times, it will go past midnight (typically on Friday night). Dubstep may be terminated at any time by the executive committee (playing Bass Nectar will result in the culprit being asked to leave immediately and never return). Bring earplugs if needed and prepare to be sleep deprived one of the nights.
12) Receipts for anything you buy for the group (ice, booze, food, etc) must be turned in to Bryan or Don by the end of the trip. All purchased items must be requested and/or approved by the executive committee.
13) We try as much as possible to have dinners pre-cooked. Anyone who would like to contribute a dish for dinner is encouraged to do so. The dish needs to be approved by the executive committee and ideally should be able to be frozen. The less cooking we have to do on site the better (it leaves more time for drinking).
14) Turns on the ski/surf boat are the responsibility of each individual. Make sure you speak up for yourself and be assertive if necessary to get your time out on the water. Yes, Holly will be on the surf boat every time it goes out.
15) If you are a snorer, please bring preventative measurers so you don't disturb the people around you. Or, better yet, plan on sleeping on shore! If you're name is Tim, plan on sleeping somewhere on the Pitt river arm.
16) Typically Friday night is the costume party night. All types of costumes are acceptable, but burning man or disco attire seems to be the norm. Be prepared to see Juba's ass (it's real, and it's spectacular!).
17) There will be no pricing adjustments for a perceived lack of resource utilization (didn't drink much, didn't get out on the boats much, didn't eat much, had to sleep on shore, didn't get to see Juba's ass, etc...).
18) People who either come on Thursday or leave on Tuesday and help with the boat loading/unloading are given a special place in the eyes of the executive committee. While we understand that not everyone will be able to do this, we highly encourage those who can help on one or both of these days. People who help on both days will be awarded a long, lingering, awkward hug by one member of the executive committee (his name rhymes with "qwan").
19) If you haven't figured this out by now, Bryan & Don are the executive committee. While we like to think of ourselves as a benevolent dictatorship (or theocracy might be more apt), the bottom line is it's our trip and we make the rules. If you have any problems with this I would refer you to the executive committee. They will listen to your grievances and then adjudicate justly and wisely. Appeals of decisions made by the executive committee can be lodged with, you guessed it, the executive committee. Good luck with that.
20) Lastly, a word about commitment and the houseboat trip. A trip of this nature requires that there be a "critical mass" of people going to make it financially and logistically possible. The numbers we're shooting for are a minimum of 15 and a max of 22 people. Ideally there are at least 15 full time people involved. It seems as if every year we, the executive committee, are faced with people that can't seem to make a timely commitment to the trip. We understand and respect that people are busy and have a lot of things going on in their lives. Also, it is acknowledged that the trip is very close to the Burn and a lot of people can't do both. Having said that, the due date for getting your payment, and therefore your commitment to go on the boat, is to be considered a serious and non-arbitrary deadline. We, the executive committee, have grown tired of dealing with wishy- washy, flip-flopping individuals. Henceforth, once the deadline for payment has been reached, we will see how many people have paid. If we have enough people for the normal boat we get, we'll move forward with the trip. If not, we'll either wait another year, look into a smaller boat or possibly just go camping somewhere. What we will not do is move forward with the trip planning without the aforementioned "critical mass" of commitments. The best way to look at this is that is is like the type of commitment that needs to be made for any other major trip (traveling abroad, rafting trip, ski vacation, etc....) requires advanced planning (airline tickets, lodging reservations, etc...). There is a lot of up front planning that needs to happen with a trip like this and, while we are happy to do the lions share of this work, we need to be dealing with people of integrity and foresight who are capable of advance planning and follow thru. Thank you.
