Fall 2010 Work Weekend Project List

This weekend, Friday, November 5 through Sunday, November 7.  Sunset Island will be hosting it's semi-annual Work Weekend.  We are preparing in earnest and eagerly awaiting the arrival of all the Work Weekend volunteers. Currently there are 26 confirmed participants, a mixture of alumni, staff, and friends of the Outward Bound School.  Here is a link to the current project list - Fall 2010 Work Weekend Project List .

We will post a report post work weekend of the projects completed along with a photo album of the progress, sweat, and laughs.

Please contact Program Director, Jeff Lovett, via email, JLovett@ncobs.org if you are interesting in receiving information about future Sunset Island or NCOBS Work Weekend Dates.

Let the projects begin...

FL Semester Phase Precourse

We are into day two of precourse preparations for the FL Phase of the fall semester course.  Julie Springsteen is working behind the scenes as course director.   Trish Haitz is co-instructing with Jimbo Schley. Jimbo is still in NC with the crew, but Trish is here in FL  course planning...seen below working on her 72 hour plan.

Meanwhile our new Logistics Manager - Kat Triplett is growing familiar with the field libraries in the front office.

The semester students fly into Fort Lauderdale on Monday and will drive directly to Flamingo to begin their 15 day canoe expedition.  So the season begins here on Sunset Island.  I'll sign off with a parting image of our first gear pile of the 2010-11 season all wrapped up and awaiting tomorrow morning's loading party...

Can you hear me now?

We are making steady progress towards opening up the base on most fronts.   Despite open box surgery on the heart of the phone system we are still without our primary phone lines.

We're Back!

Anne and I arrived on Sunset Island a few days ago.  The base looks great due in no small part to the efforts of the 2010 caretakers Billy and Shannon Snyder.  All the major systems are up and running except the phones.  If you need to contact us please use the ferry phone 239.695.0014.  We are working with Sanjay to repair the phone system and hope to have it back online by next week.

The staff working the FL Fall Semester Phase will begin arriving next week; our first students arrive on November 1; and the Fall 2010 Work Weekend is scheduled for November 5-7.  There is so much to get done so the updates may be few, but we will do our best to keep everyone updated.

FL Programs 2009-10 Photo Album

Trish and I have spent the last couple days working on the FL Programs 2010-11 staffing.  Reviewing work requests, professional summaries, and work histories is dredging up memories from past seasons.  These memories and a renewed excitement for the upcoming season inspired me to post an album of images from last season.  Enjoy... FL Programs 2009-10

2010-04-08 FL Spring 2010 WW

Thanks to all the volunteers and staff that chipped in to make the Spring 2010 Work Weekend a success.  Please follow the link to the right under the Photo Albums Heading to view pictures from the weekend.

Progress on the Sunfish!

Above is the progress as of January 2010. The images below were captured this morning.
After three seasons of slowing picking away at repairing the Sunfish we have made significant progress over the last two months and nearing the launch date. Thanks to all the staff the have chipped in to help out and add inspiration to complete this project.