Ireland's bailout to Spanish citizen

[Eliseo Haro]

Good morning my diverse Banana crew,

 

As I told Eric and Manu yesterday, my projects outside US are gaining great momentum and it will be too irresponsible for me to leave my partners in this crucial moment. I am sorry, but although I was really looking forward this trip after receiving the honor of leading the Bananas on the endeavor (I already was there, your expectations cannot be creative enough to match reality), I won’t be able to make it.

 

The good news is that after a deep search around the globe in collaboration with the smartest head hunters and the intelligences agencies with wider networks, I finally find your capitan and spiritual leader. I discard many on the way, they were too focus on technicalities, not skill enough, not tough to endure the Banana way of life for a week or not capable to drink 5 beers in a row while managing the boat under a storm…but what I learned as a young exchange student in high school was that…..if there is a nation that can drink beer and multitask like no other, that is Ireland! Therefore, I came back to the principals to find a substitute able enough for the challenge: My Banana crew, welcome on board your Irish skipper Frank Hennigan.

 

I think it will be constructive to take some drinks together to find the right Banana nick name for Frank. Frank, there is also a boat leads and skippers meeting tomorrow at 7pm at the MIT campus, Gigi will lead it.

 

I attach Frank’s contact info so he can take my role from here:

Cell: 781-964-3881

FB: https://www.facebook.com/frank.hennigan.7?hc_location=stream

Email: frank.h...@gmail.com

 

Have fun and make sure no lady leave the banana boat dissatisfied.

 

With love,

Eli

 

 

 

[Frank Hennigan]

Good Morning All!

 

I will be at the meeting tomorrow night. I have a wake to attend in Southie on the way at 6 so I should be there right at 7.

 

Could we get together one of these nights before the trip so that we can get acquainted? I have a large amount of sailing experience all over the eastern Seaboard of the US and some carribean, including races and deliveries. This should be a fun trip for all! safety is my first goal, its not a fun trip if you don't come home with the same number of people, and yes the same people, we cant just kidnap someone on one of the islands should we lose someone overboard.

 

if you are looking for a little inspiration for this trip I highly recommend watching the movie Captain Ron(80's Kurt Russell movie), hilarious and all about a crazy captain in the carribean.

 

If you have any questions please let me know! I can not wait for this trip!

 

Frank

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG6k9sODCfo

[Guillermo Freire]

Hey guys...I am not very comfortable with this. Let's talk.

On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 8:59 AM, Eliseo Haro <elise...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Peter Sellis]

I'm around this afternoon. I can go to the meeting if we need someone still, also – do we?

-ps

[Manu Lohiya]

oh that would be amazing!!!! thanks banana crisis! you have truly averted the real banana crisis. 

i will let rob hale know. again, apreciate the backup!

--
Manu Lohiya
MIT Sloan School of Management '13

Brown University '06, M'07

Boston, MA

[Frank Hennigan]

hey guys, im looking into flights, I know there are some logistical issues of getting to the island. is there an airport right near the boat? I heard rumors of a ferry? just trying to get everything lined up.

 

see anyone tonight?

 

frank

On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 8:59 AM, Eliseo Haro <elise...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Manu Lohiya]

yes see you tonight. Peter Sellis is going to represent the bananas on the boat and it would be great if you could be there too from the skipper perspective. You should come to the C-Function after the meeting. Many of the bananas will be represented there. free beer free food. 

i will let the organzier rob hale too that you will be present. 

-Manu

[Peter Sellis]

Also, attached is the Floatplan that Rob sent a few weeks back.

-ps

[Michael Smouha]

I agree we should talk guys...

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[Janis Kukainis]

I'm fine with it. 

Mike and Guillermo what are your concerns?

Best,

Janis

Mr. Jānis Kukainis

MIT: Sloan School of Management

MBA Candidate Class of 2013

Phone: (516) 423-9173

E-mail: Kuka...@mit.edu

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[Guille]

I can be skipper

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[Eric Pignot]

Don't worry guille, we'll ask the skipper whether you can hold the helm. I think he ll be ok. 

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[Guillermo Freire]

I am just speaking up. That is what I learn in class today

[Eric Pignot]

you're the TA: aren't you supposed to know everything before the class?

--

Eric Pignot, MBA candidate 2013

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Sloan School of Management

M: +1 857 284 9397 │ E: eric....@sloan.mit.edu

[Michael Smouha]

Ahaha...if guille can skip, I'm cool with it. What r u guys thinking?

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[Janis Kukainis]

I am fine with Guillermo or the other guy. But I understand if others in the group feel like they need a more experienced skipper. 

The fact of the matter is its all sunk cost now because the other guy pays for his own plane ticket and we already paid for the boat and food. Unless we get another person on our boat there is no reduction of cost.  

Those are my thoughts. Best, Janis

Mr. Jānis Kukainis

MIT Sloan School of Management

MBA Candidate Class of 2013

Phone: (516) 423-9173

E-mail: Kuka...@mit.edu

[Manu Lohiya]

Hi Guillermo - thanks for elaborating on your concerns and yes we are not saving any money by having guillermo as skipper. However, if we feel the need to discuss, I ask that we move quickly on this. 

1. There is a mandatory skipper meeting tonight from 7-8. Guillermo, if you are serious about this, you will need to attend it. Frank, our new default skipper, is going to be present there.  Let me know if your plans have changed so I can inform Rob of this situation. 

2. Those of us who feel strongly about this should chat as suggested by Guillermo and Mike. Can you two figure out a time that would work for the group or atleast those interested in being part of this decision? We need to do this ASAP in the next 24-36 hours as it is not fair to the other skipper who is about to buy his plane ticket.  

Thanks guys!! Lets not forget that this is going to be the MOST EPIC week of our time at SLoan!!!! see you guys tonight at the kong!! i will be representing the BANANA BOAT in the drag show. 

[Guille]

I don't feel uncomfortable any more, Frankly speaking I think that Frank would be an awesome skipper!! 

 

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[Manu Lohiya]

hahaha....awesome!! i am glad this is resolved. thanks all. 

Guillermo, can you please be skipper of getting everyone drunk starting 9AM??

[Guillermo Freire]

Can you at least call me captain....?

[Manu Lohiya]

CAPITAN UNDERPANTS!!!!

[Guillermo Freire]

Invictus

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul. 

Guillermo Freire (2013)

[Peter Sellis]

Oh man, we need a YouTube playlist to fire ourselves up.

-ps

[Frank Hennigan]

Hey everyone, I know GIgi sent out the email with the code, but I talked to some friends at atlantis weathergear and they gave Sloan Trip a discount code incase anyone needs gear for inclement weather. I know it "never" rains down there but I just checked the weather for this week and its rain every day. if you guys need gear spread the word, 25% off everything from atlantisweathergear.com use promo code AWGFH for the discount.

 

frank

[Manu Lohiya]

Thanks Frank!! Great call. 

Hope everything went well yesterday at the meeting. lets plan to get everyone together soon. i will try to find a date that works. 

[Peter Sellis]

I'll send out some notes from the meeting. They are going to send out a really helpful presentation.

-ps

[Frank Hennigan]

What I go from the meeting, sunblock, baby wipes and water is the necessity items 

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[Peter Sellis]

Yeah, baby wipes seem like the secret weapon.

[Frank Hennigan]

Baby wipes, q-tips, tooth paste and a bar of soap all you need for sailing trips 

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[Eric Pignot]

yes: rest of the boat can be used to store beers & liquors

[Michael Smouha]

Thanks frank. See u soon bro

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[Peter Sellis]

Here are my notes:

• Boats are big, skippers will need help while sailing
• Re-read the guidebook and print it out
• Sign the liability waiver and put it in Rob's folder
• Voyager boat pickup is at West End -- you should call ahead and pre-arrange a taxi with your rental company
• Wifi is $120 for the whole boat for the whole week -- and you can Skype call from it (non-video)
• If you use a lot of gas (motoring instead of sailing), you will need to pay for it
• There's a 200 gallon tank of water. You can drink it but it's better to buy bottled water, and lots of it. Take short showers (or shower in the ocean)
• We get a local phone on the boat, mostly to call for help / repairs if needed
• Top off water before you leave any port
• Pay attention through the boat walkthroughs
• Get fucking baby wipes. Throw them in the trash, not the head. Throw nothing in the head.
• You need your own trash bags

Word,

-ps

[Manu Lohiya]

wow, sounds like you guys some serious knowledge. Baby Wipes 4 Life!! thanks peter and frank for the strong work. 

we owe you beers?

Speaking of which, when do the bananas want to meet up to share some banana flavored juices together? 

Does Tuesday evening work?

[Peter Sellis]

I'm in for Tuesday.

-ps

[Marcus Haymon]

I'm free later Tuesday (after 7:30 or so).

[Manu Lohiya]

Bananas,

Seems like people are busy with finals tonight so maybe a different night is better. What about tomorrow evening?

[Frank Hennigan]

I'm free all this week

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[Guillermo Freire]

Hey guys i am buying this....

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005XYI2BC/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER

[Eric Pignot]

Carabeans bus party tomorrow and folies thursday. How about Friday ?

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[Manu Lohiya]

works for me!

[Peter Sellis]

I have dinner at 9 but after I'm free.

-ps

[Frank Hennigan]

hey guys I found a flight for Thursday 9 am from boston lands in STT at 1 pm. I know I have to make a ferry to the boat but just want to make sure the boat isn't leaving Thursday am or anything like that. If I have to fly down on Wednesday its about $300 more just trying to plan it out.

 

frank

[Manu Lohiya]

hey frank!

here is the description for Day 1 from the float plan. It seems we board at 6PM on thursday evening so you should be good. Also what is your dropbox email id? I can share all the docs with you. let me know if this makes sense. 

Day minus 1 (Thursday May 23rd)

Flights to STT and EIS for evening night stay at dock.

Once you arrive to ST. Thomas you should ask a taxi to take you to the Charlotte

Amalie Ferry Dock. Here you will be able to get a ferry to Tortola. We have not

reserved any tickets for you, but we will work with the ferry boats to ensure they stay

a few minutes late if some Sloanies’ flights get in near the departure time of the last

ferry of the day or have delayed flights (see here for boat schedules:

http://www.vinow.com/general_usvi/interisland_ferry/). There should be no need to

reserve a ticket until you get to the dock on the 23rd there

is a lot of room.

Feel free to get any ferry you prefer, but knowing which harbor on Tortola you need

to go to is up to you (this depends on which charter company you used). Dinner is

up to you today, so if you want to grab something in St. Thomas that might be a

good idea!

Board boats around 6pm. Hopefully get walkthrough of your boat this night, but

probably in the morning. Use only shore bathroom facilities, not heads on boats

while at dock! Confirm your departure taxi requirements with your charter office

before leaving the dock so they can arrange taxi upon your return. This should make

things run better when leaving.

[Frank Hennigan]

All I booked my flight. I have a 855 flight out of boston Thursday which lands at 1255 pm in STT. I fly out Friday at 5 pm.

 

frank

[Michael Smouha]

Hey gentlemen,

Can we get wifi on the boat?

Also, we actually need costumes. Here's what I'm thinking. We can skip the speedos and just wear the tutus also....this way we don't need sizes. Should I go ahead? Any issues?:

1) Cape: $11.99

http://www.amazon.com/Abracadabrazoo-Super-Superhero-Reversible-Yellow/dp/B005NIBQAW/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1368642395&sr=8-6&keywords=yellow+cape

2) Yellow swim cap: $4.99

http://www.speedousa.com/product/index.jsp?productId=3106237&page=1&sort=price-asc&cp=3124326.3128423.3132045&cid=1062189

3) Speedo: $44.00

Sizes: 30, 32, 34, 36, 38

http://www.speedousa.com/product/index.jsp?productId=13115665&view=all&sort=price-asc&cp=3124322.3124331.18908536&cid=1062213

4) Fairy tutus

http://www.amazon.com/Three-Layer-Ballerina-Fairy-Tutu/dp/B004YHFSIO/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_2?s=toys-and-games&ie=UTF8&qid=1368644024&sr=1-2-fkmr1&keywords=yellow+hula+skirt

[Manu Lohiya]

sounds great to me!! would not count on wifi sir. thank you big mike!!

[Michael Smouha]

Can't we order wifi or something? I dunno but the roommates were talking about it yesterday...

[Frank Hennigan]

at the meeting they mentioned wifi is an additional $125 I believe for the week for the boat. not positive but that's what they mentioned as cell service is patchy at best and international calls are $4/minute? I don't know, I don't plan on calling anyone unless I have a paternity case but that's what was brought up at the meeting

[Peter Sellis]

Yep:

• Wifi is $120 for the whole boat for the whole week -- and you can Skype call from it (non-video)
  

Also, should we get Frank on the Google Group and remove Eliseo (unless he wants to keep gettin' e-mails).

-ps

[Michael Smouha]

Good idea Petey! I'm in for wifi...

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[Manu Lohiya]

sounds great! i am assuming htis is something we can get once we are there? or do we need to setup up while here

[Michael Smouha]

Think we need to setup here. Is it confirmed that I order these costumes?

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[Michael Smouha]

We could go with banana costumes:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0060KF6Q2/ref=mp_s_a_1_7?qid=1368649527&sr=8-7&pi=SL75
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[Frank Hennigan]

banana costume may be a little hot seen as the temps down there will be in the 80s

 

[Frank Hennigan]

Also forgot to mention it, but no bananas allowed on the boat. im not superstitious but... bananas are bad luck on a boat.

[Eric Pignot]

hummmm I think we have a problem there.

--

Eric Pignot, MBA candidate 2013

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Sloan School of Management

M: +1 857 284 9397 │ E: eric....@sloan.mit.edu

[Manu Lohiya]

yeah that might be a problem because we have at least 10 human sized bananas...should we throw them overboard?? 

i like the tutus. unless someone has an objection, mike go for it by the end of the day today. it might take a couple of days to get here and it would suck if the tutus are here but we are not 

[Peter Sellis]

That banana costume in the humidity will be just brutal. Tutus can work.

-ps

[Frank Hennigan]

Not sure that pertains to human size bananas. Meant the fruit. There's a rumor that every boat from the carribean carrying bananas in the 1700's sank. 

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[Manu Lohiya]

Hi guys - as we approach departure date, please note the following things before we have the best time of our lives:

Money: Please send me the outstanding moneys for booze+food+groupfood. Based on what you have already paid, Column G has the latest amount you guys owe me. Please try to do it ASAP as i'd rather not be floating $4000+. My paypal, BoA and venmo are manul...@gmail.com. Once you send it over, please just send me an email indicating that you have done it. See Banana Payments tab https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aty1n5n74rm2dDRGZHhpTWVObnNjdUJHX3V0YVRpaXc#gid=3

Food Chefs: Please volunteer for at least 1 chef slot and 1 cleaning slot if you have a preference. Some people might have to do two. If no preference, we can assign you to a random cooking slot. See Meals tab

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aty1n5n74rm2dDRGZHhpTWVObnNjdUJHX3V0YVRpaXc#gid=3

Input flight info: Frank and Guillermo - please input your flight info. this way we all can have each other's travel info (row 271 onwards): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AsEOp-E4zf4zdHFrM3FsZkRkeTVEZl92eFdoZWEtZ0E#gid=1

Costumes - Thanks Mike for ordering them! Let us know what the per person cost is and I can factor it in

Snorkeling Gear - The link that guillermo seems like a great deal. I might get in on that too!

First Night - Some of us who are arriving on Wednesday (22nd) are staying at a hotel room that Xi Wang organized. If you are arriving early and not on the email chain please let her know because she is coordinating that first night stay. 

Meetup - Getting everyone together is harder than expected due to finals/people travelling. It may not happen before we leave. But thats okay because we will have 1223232 hours of alone time on the boat. 

Documents - I have consolidated all the documents into a dropbox. if you dont have access, let me know!

Ok thats all I got. Hope everyone is excited!!

Manu

PS - Frank you should now be on the google group. let me know if you didnt get a notification from the google group. Taking Eliseo to BCC (sad :(

[Frank Hennigan]

Think I'm in the group now! 

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[Janis Kukainis]

Gents,

I added another tab called "Watch List". Frank needs 2 - 3 hands helping him sail each day, which means you can not be fall over drunk and must be ready to help with lines and anything else Captain Frank may ask of you, including being is little cabin boy. Please fill in your names at least twice by this Sunday. If your name is not filled in on Sunday I will have the pleasure of doing so for you! Boooyaaa! Thanks! - Janis

Mr. Jānis Kukainis

MIT Sloan School of Management

MBA Candidate Class of 2013

Phone: (516) 423-9173

E-mail: Kuka...@mit.edu

[Frank Hennigan]

Count me in to cook and/or clean whenever you need. 

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[Michael Smouha]

Guys,

Ordered costumes and everything should arrive on time. We have yellow trucker hats that we can write on, yellow hula skirts and a yellow cape...

Total came to 323. Divided by 11 = $30 each. You can just paypal me at mikes...@gmail.com

Smokey Banana

[Eric Pignot]

yes of course, but we have the most amazing skipper on earth, we should be fine no?;-)