Postering West Coast Marinas
Today, the Harbor Masters Association [1], a trade group
representing 65 marinas up and down the west coast *happened* to
circulate our flyer to all of their marinas. This is especially
encouraging, because this trade group tends to have coastal
marinas as its members. The poster was circulated by one Nick
Pronman (?), Director of Operations at Santa Barbara Harbor. I
have never talked to Nick before and heard this news second-hand
while phone calling another SoCal Marina. I don’t know who or what
persuaded Mr. Pronman to forward our flyer, but that news really
saved the day.
I also had a conversation with Diane Isley. She coincidentally is
harbor master of the marina next-door to my Emeryville apt *and*
the *president* of the Harbor Masters Assoc. She informed me that
there is one *other* major trade association on the west coast
called the Marina Recreation Association [2]. Their members
strongly represent the San Diego and Baja CA areas. I have
sent them an email, hoping that
they too can syndicate our flyer. If anybody has any contacts in
the marina associations, please step forward.
The phone calling itself is time- and energy-consuming but
ultimately productive. I didn’t end up with any helpers today and
could only call about 15 marinas (let’s estimate there are ~120
to call). I think, even with emails, it’s still worth calling
harbor masters. Though some of them will have seen emails,
getting a phone-call may help us get more flyers
posted. Unfortunately, something like 80% of those harbor masters
I spoke with (all around the LA area) were unaware of the
Tenacious or JG. This is in stark contrast to the Bay Area, where
*everybody* knows and is concerned. Based on conversations,
I don’t think the CG is broadcasting about the Tenacious down
there). Occasionally, one of them had read about it in the
newspaper. To call all of the marinas, we’ll need more people.
I’ll continue tomorrow and hope for more help.
Thanks to Harbor Masters Nick Pronman, Don Wetterstone (who
returned my voice mail to tell me about Nick’s forward) and Diane
Isley.
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On another note, I just heard news from our volunteer Ramu
Sunkara that he has finished postering the key southward areas of
Monterey (including the Aquarium) and Moss Landing (where lots of
fishermen hang out). I also heard (over email )from a harbor
master at Santa Barbara that a lady had put color posters at all the key
locations (though I had not coordinated with said lady). Was that help
from UCSB folks?
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REFs:
[1] http://www.harbormaster.org/
[2] http://marina.org/