[obol] Re: Do you have a few million $$ to spare?
- From: Darrel Faxon <5hats@xxxxxxxx>
- To: obol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2015 21:57:48 -0800
Paul,
You forgot three things:
(1) an on boat supply of dramamine, bonine, wrist bands, and
scoplalomine ear patches,
(2) an on board heli-pad equipped with helicopter to ferry back to land
all those for whom none of item # 1 work, and (3) an on board laugh
track which can be broadcast over the speaker to drown out the sniggers
of those who have no sympathy for green-faced participants of pelagic trips.
Might up the price tag, but it would be worth it.
Darrel
On 2/22/2015 9:10 PM, Paul Sullivan wrote:
Saturday I was part of the Oregon Pelagic Tours trip that saw so many
Laysan Albatrosses and the Parakeet Auklets. Thanks, Tim, for a good
trip. I encourage everyone interested to visit
http://www.oregonpelagictours.com/
I also experienced the routine frustration of a one-day pelagic
birding trip on a fishing boat:
When a good bird came by the house blocked my view, other passengers
kept me from the rail, someone wanted to get by, I had to grab for
something to keep from falling, my hat blew off, I got hit by the
spray of a big wave, and the bird disappeared behind a swell.
So I want to remedy the situation. I want to build a PELAGIC BIRDING
VESSEL.
The hull must be big enough to be stable in moderate swells. The
wheelhouse will be on the bottom deck. Above the wheel house will be a
bleachers facing forward, 6 seats wide, 6 rows deep, each succeeding
row able to see over the one in front. Each seat will be a bucket
seat that will swivel 360 degrees, with pockets for your stuff. The
front of the ship will have a clear windshield to block spray, with
windshield wipers. Everyone can sit for the whole trip, held with a
seat belt. The tour guide will have a microphone and a speaker to
communicate with the passengers. They’ll also have the use of a
closed circuit TV to show birds on a big screen to point out field
marks. No one will be blocked by the tall guy in front of him/her.
You can see the bird flying above you across the ship.
The chum deck will be behind and below the bleachers.
The power will not be diesel fuel; the exhaust will not vent near the
passengers. The hull will have a hydrofoil so that a trip out 30 mile
will only take an hour.
Alternatively, you can build a PELAGIC BIRDING PLATFORM out over
Perpetua Bank. Equip it with a dock, heliport, lodging, good food and
drink, lots of windows, comfortable seating, and plenty of chum to
draw birds. Then just ferry participants out to it from Newport with
helicopters.
If the benefactor who builds either of these would provide an
endowment to maintain its operation, we should be able to keep the
price of a day’s birding affordable and draw a regular stream of
folks. People could even bring their non-birding family and friends
to the platform.
Any takers?
Cheers, ;-)
Paul Sullivan
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