Camping trip/fundraiser for summer boat project April 29th-May 8th
Camp Tipsy … on and around the weekend of May 3rd… fun camping trip on a lake with boats and performance and art installations.
OK. I need to catch up. It’s all happening kinda quick… so it’s hard to report on something when your already doing the next thing. But there is this big project that I’m working on and I wanna talk about it. There was an idea that was put forward that I signed on to. To build a raft out of foam and wood. Send it down the Mississippi with a bunch of idiots. I committed to do the propulsion system. The end of the story is that it went from Minniappleass to St. Louie, roughly. It took 2 years to traverse that 750 miles. In all, 150 people traveled on the craft. Sometimes as many as 40 at a time. That craft is now gone. The Mississippi won. This summer we are doing it again. But this time, it’s the Hudson. Starting upstate NY with a destination of Long Island City with 7 homemade and/or modified boats and/or rafts. Swoon does the art. For propulsion, we pull motors out of cars and run them on bullshit: bio-fuel or worse. Solar powered electric canoes. It’s all absurd but actually kinda techy. None of it’s easy. You think building at Burning Man is hard, try building on water. You drop the tool, it’s gone. Boats catch fire. Bottom out. Weather. Rough conditions. No where to park. Toilets. Rain. Breakdowns: Mechanical or mental. Staph. Cooking for 25 people. No refrigeration. Rednecks. Alligators. OK, there are no alligators. But all the other stuff. A boat trip ‘ll make a man outta ya.
I am doing a camping trip on and around the weekend of May 3rd in a location about 2/12 hours from San Francisco. The location is on a beautiful lake. We have the site from Tuesday the 29th to Thursday the 8th. There is a very, very limited number of people who can go. A few hundred at most. But it’s going to be really great. We have all the propulsion systems here, in my shop. We are building 3 test crafts this very week (at NIMBY, if ya wanna come help). I’m calling the campout Camp Tipsy because it’s cute. Camp Tipsy will have TONS of entertainment and stuff, but it will also have a bunch of boats. It’s a boat thing. Bring a boat or borrow one of ours. We are going to do a big communal kitchen. It’s really warm there, and really pristine. It’s a great nature moment.
Camp Tipsy is a fundraising device for the project in NY this summer. All the proceeds collected will go to the SUPER EXPENSIVE transportation of the propulsion systems. A project like this costs well over a hundred thousand dollars, and it’s all done with donations. Our fundraising goal is $22,000. Ouch. So we are asking for donations of (gulp) $100. Yea, it’s kinda a lot. But it’s all real. And it’s totally worth it. I’ve been pouring time and effort into this event. I might be crazy out of
We have a big kitchen that goes under a big tent. It’s all communal. Kinda. They’ll be meal time capers and nightly instigators of foods, but more anarchy then democracy. All run by Food Hacking master Chef Mark Powell. The kitchen will have all the basics and stuff. More on that later.
Every night we have a few feature performers. Mellow, fun, cool campfire music. And such.
Floating art. Boats. Swimming. Dogs. Kids. Building stuff. Sailing. Biking.
It’s all sounding too wholesome. But after all, wholesome is the new decadence.
The trip is not about the money, but a TON of effort is going into it. Please pay the hundred bucks (or more if you can afford it). If you are absolutely flat busted broke and just have to go we can work something out… but if I don’t hit my fundraising number I can’t go to NYC. $22G is a ton of money. If 220 people pay $100 for this camping trip, I’ll probably make like $14g or so. It’s all so expensive. You have to RSVP, I’ll put you on another mailing list specifily for this event. You must pay in advance to hold your spot and you must say which days you would like to be there. I am not supposed to have more than 200 people, the place is pristine and they wanna keep it that way. So I am trying to be organized.
Please invite people!!!!! But lets start with friends and friends of friends first. Please do not post this to lists yet. Lets hand pick the people we wanna camp with. There is a reason I have waited to give the dates… I don’t want to disappoint people. We DEFINATLY want this to go well so we can return. I’d love to do Camp Tipsy every year.
You confirm with PayPal: chickenjohn@chicknejohn.com
I've already paid for the spot and stuff. It's ours.
The spot is like 2 ½ hours north of SF. I won’t tell you where it is until later. It’s super warm there. It’s not in the mountains. It’s beautiful. The lake is awesome. You can ride bikes and stuff.
I just bough 4 paddle boats.
There is so much more information to give, but for now lets just see how this works.
More info on the Mississippi boat at missrockaway.org
Camp Tipsy … on and around the weekend of May 3rd… fun camping trip on a lake with boats and performance and art installations.
OK. I need to catch up. It’s all happening kinda quick… so it’s hard to report on something when your already doing the next thing. But there is this big project that I’m working on and I wanna talk about it. There was an idea that was put forward that I signed on to. To build a raft out of foam and wood. Send it down the Mississippi with a bunch of idiots. I committed to do the propulsion system. The end of the story is that it went from Minniappleass to St. Louie, roughly. It took 2 years to traverse that 750 miles. In all, 150 people traveled on the craft. Sometimes as many as 40 at a time. That craft is now gone. The Mississippi won. This summer we are doing it again. But this time, it’s the Hudson. Starting upstate NY with a destination of Long Island City with 7 homemade and/or modified boats and/or rafts. Swoon does the art. For propulsion, we pull motors out of cars and run them on bullshit: bio-fuel or worse. Solar powered electric canoes. It’s all absurd but actually kinda techy. None of it’s easy. You think building at Burning Man is hard, try building on water. You drop the tool, it’s gone. Boats catch fire. Bottom out. Weather. Rough conditions. No where to park. Toilets. Rain. Breakdowns: Mechanical or mental. Staph. Cooking for 25 people. No refrigeration. Rednecks. Alligators. OK, there are no alligators. But all the other stuff. A boat trip ‘ll make a man outta ya.
I am doing a camping trip on and around the weekend of May 3rd in a location about 2/12 hours from San Francisco. The location is on a beautiful lake. We have the site from Tuesday the 29th to Thursday the 8th. There is a very, very limited number of people who can go. A few hundred at most. But it’s going to be really great. We have all the propulsion systems here, in my shop. We are building 3 test crafts this very week (at NIMBY, if ya wanna come help). I’m calling the campout Camp Tipsy because it’s cute. Camp Tipsy will have TONS of entertainment and stuff, but it will also have a bunch of boats. It’s a boat thing. Bring a boat or borrow one of ours. We are going to do a big communal kitchen. It’s really warm there, and really pristine. It’s a great nature moment.
Camp Tipsy is a fundraising device for the project in NY this summer. All the proceeds collected will go to the SUPER EXPENSIVE transportation of the propulsion systems. A project like this costs well over a hundred thousand dollars, and it’s all done with donations. Our fundraising goal is $22,000. Ouch. So we are asking for donations of (gulp) $100. Yea, it’s kinda a lot. But it’s all real. And it’s totally worth it. I’ve been pouring time and effort into this event. I might be crazy out of
We have a big kitchen that goes under a big tent. It’s all communal. Kinda. They’ll be meal time capers and nightly instigators of foods, but more anarchy then democracy. All run by Food Hacking master Chef Mark Powell. The kitchen will have all the basics and stuff. More on that later.
Every night we have a few feature performers. Mellow, fun, cool campfire music. And such.
Floating art. Boats. Swimming. Dogs. Kids. Building stuff. Sailing. Biking.
It’s all sounding too wholesome. But after all, wholesome is the new decadence.
The trip is not about the money, but a TON of effort is going into it. Please pay the hundred bucks (or more if you can afford it). If you are absolutely flat busted broke and just have to go we can work something out… but if I don’t hit my fundraising number I can’t go to NYC. $22G is a ton of money. If 220 people pay $100 for this camping trip, I’ll probably make like $14g or so. It’s all so expensive. You have to RSVP, I’ll put you on another mailing list specifily for this event. You must pay in advance to hold your spot and you must say which days you would like to be there. I am not supposed to have more than 200 people, the place is pristine and they wanna keep it that way. So I am trying to be organized.
Please invite people!!!!! But lets start with friends and friends of friends first. Please do not post this to lists yet. Lets hand pick the people we wanna camp with. There is a reason I have waited to give the dates… I don’t want to disappoint people. We DEFINATLY want this to go well so we can return. I’d love to do Camp Tipsy every year.
You confirm with PayPal: chickenjohn@chicknejohn.com
I've already paid for the spot and stuff. It's ours.
The spot is like 2 ½ hours north of SF. I won’t tell you where it is until later. It’s super warm there. It’s not in the mountains. It’s beautiful. The lake is awesome. You can ride bikes and stuff.
I just bough 4 paddle boats.
There is so much more information to give, but for now lets just see how this works.
More info on the Mississippi boat at missrockaway.org
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