GSXIV - CANCELLED - $1185 to Shelter Cove Fishing Preservation Inc. - pg. 11

Ill be there as long as we dont bring plan Zen-chans first Japan trip that weekend 

Am, "we need to have zen meet your grandma before she dies"
Me, "but its gimmie shelter..."

I’m assuming that tent camping is still the same set up right?
Come in, pick the site and pay.

I haven't spoken to the campground owner yet, but I expect everything to be the same.

Cool

I called yesterday and was told that R.V. sites are for reserve and tent sites are first come . This works great for me . Hope to spend close to a week this year at the Cove.

Hopefully there's some space available when I get there for my first GS.

Oh! You gonna regret it  first time I attended this, my life was never the same.  I will be there if all goes according to plan of course. Likely leaving Friday Eve.

Here's the artwork for this year's event.

Registration is open through April 20th - see the three attachments on the first post of this thread.

The artwork looks awsome, but I'll miss the traditional. 
Might this be a sign of changing direction for the event?
Either way, this event has deffinatly changed my life!
See ya there, "Where Life is Good"
;0)

The artwork looks awsome, but I'll miss the traditional. 
Might this be a sign of changing direction for the event?
Either way, this event has deffinatly changed my life!
See ya there, "Where Life is Good"
;0)

Thanks, Eric!   

No big changes about the event.  After 10 years with the NCKA "Linghead" vector on the front of all the gear, I decided to move away from it.  It's just a refresh after a long history of repetition that was genuinely based on honoring the club.  I still honor NCKA and highly value the community - membership is still required for participation at GS.

Another issue was the artwork factor.  Working with a professional artist on this was a new experience after years of just getting my t-shirt printer or a friend to help me with my "art".  This year I set out to have a new design for the back of the shirt, and it occurred to me to work with my friend Shawn Griggs again - he'd helped me out last year with a quick drawing for a discounted rate for a friend.  I liked what he did so easily, so I went all in for whatever he charges for a t-shirt design this year.  Then I found out that the full price t-shirt design comes with a front design too, and that pushed me to something I've considered for years now - moving on from the longtime standard Linghead vector.

On top of that, I realized that working with an artist you've got to consider what you're putting on a shirt with their work.  It hadn't occurred to me until I was well into the process that it may be imposing on his style to just have his artwork on a shirt with other affiliations than my event itself.  So going with his suggestions on the paired front and back artwork felt natural and easy.

Last point here, and it relates to something that Mike Sapp brought up about making prints of the artwork.  I told my artist about the idea, and he said, "yeah, we could talk about that..."  I then went on to get an education about how buying professional artwork actually goes down.  I bought a t-shirt design - front and back.  I have the right to print t-shirts and other gear and use the art on media for the event, but I didn't buy the right to do prints of it.  I was a bit taken aback by this, but once Shawn very thoughtfully explained it to me I am in full understanding and agreement with this.  He gave me the example of a local brewery that commissioned him to do art for one of their specialty brews.  His "Day of the Dead" style with the skeleton character is very popular, and the brewery owner went on to put the artwork on shirts and hoodies.  Shawn explained that it's a very specific deal to do the beer label, and other merchandise and especially prints of art must only be produced as part of a contractual agreement between the artist and the buyer.

Shawn is doing a painting of the artwork that he intends to throw in as a gesture because we've been friends since we were kids, and I told him I want it in the raffle - he's down with that.

I like the art work. I see a fishing kayaker with some safety gear , a cooler with all his favorite beverages, one pac hali in the back and another fish on ! Whats not to like about this. 

Looking forward to getting there as early in the week as possible.

As you can tell by all the stamps i dont mail things often other than fishing tournament registrations.

Alex

I like the artwork a lot.

Brewery art is a little third rail, but since you brought it up, ask flatmo if you really want a familiar story with an unexpected twist.

 

Nice job, just asked for the check book. See you in May. Oh ya just told to buy one for her (wife sweat shirt) Again nice job you really nailed it this time.

Here's the sketch that'll become a painting to be in the raffle.   

Here's a change this year - I lost my access to the laminator that's produced way over a thousand Hawg Trough Extensions!  (and I'm doing a "refresh" on that tradition too!   )

If you want one you can make a note on your registration and I'll get one to you.   

Traditions become periods and are properly memorialized when they are part of a heritage.

That's what we're doing at Gimme Shelter.

 

It was 2006.  I'd been on NCKA for almost two years.  NCKA had been around almost 2 years...  Having bought my first yak - a Hobie Pursuit (no pedals) - in 1999, I had since picked up a few Costco boats, and my best boat at that point was a Scrambler XT - I still have it.

It was mid September, and I'd been catching a few smaller salmon down at the Cove earlier in the year.  Salmon season opened on the second Saturday in February back then - those were the days!

Here's the link to the report from 9/11/06:  http://www.norcalkayakanglers.com/index.php?topic=5461.0

Long story shorter, I caught a salmon that basically led to Gimme Shelter.  Half a dozen of us got together the following March to try for salmon.  We didn't land any, but we had a great time hanging out for a couple days in the upper corner of the campground.  A tradition had been born.

Hopefully we get a salmon season this year.

COVE FEVER.

IT HAS NO CURE !! 

Visit at recommended dosage depending on individual.

Alex

Count me in.