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First and foremost we would like to thank everyone for attending the event on Sunday. As all are aware things did not go to plan and there are many unhappy people, which we completely understand...and we sympathize, as we also would have liked the cruise to unfold the way it was planned. I will say, we are fortunate to have had all three of the boys on the boat as the NYC cruise just one day earlier was missing both Omid and Demi due to their flight from Lithunia not being able to land in NYC in time due to weather. Desyn made it as he left Lithuania on an earlier flight than the other two.
As far as leaving late and coming back early, when hiring a boat for a cruise you are given a 5 hour window. That window was Noon - 5 PM which is supposed to leave 30 minutes for boarding and 30 minutes to disembark...that is the ideal forumla. In this case, we did not have all ticket holders boarded until 1 PM and when we did, Desyn was not yet on board. The reason he was not on board was because his flight from NYC was cancelled and he did not arrive in Toronto until Noon...still having to pass through customs, immigration for his work visa, baggage claim, and then get from the airport to the boat. At 1 PM when we had everyone on board and were ready to sail we made a call to the water taxi to ensure that we could get Desyn on the boat if we took off. The answer "if he came right now it would be no problem, but because it is Caribana it may get busy...if it gets busy there is no way I am cruising all the way out to meet the Northern Spirit as I loose too much business to do so by sending out one of my boats for too long...my suggestion would be to wait for your DJ." We made a judgement call that was based on people paying to see SOS. It was either we give people SOS for shorter period than promised...or give people 2/3 of SOS also for a slightly shorter period...we decided to wait.
As for the volume issues, I have to admit I was abit taken aback by how things unfolded. Last year as soon as Demi stepped on the boat at Noon we started the music (at a reasonable volume) and he played until 5 PM...again the last half hour of disembarking (at a reasonable volume). I expected exactly the same thing this year and was not notified otherwise...but apparently they no longer allow music while the boat is docked. In fact, they wanted to completely shut off the music as soon as we entered the inner harbour...I had to negotiate a lower volume in order to keep the music on. This is something that I will be taking up with the venue operators as I feel that we were completley screwed out of what we expected based on the success of last years cruise.
Hopefully this message clarify's a couple of things for those assuming otherwise. Again, we do appreciate you support and sympathize with the fact that you all spent good money to be there. As a gesture, we would like to extend the invitation to be on our comp guest list for our 1 Year Anniversay of EXPOSED at the Mod Club. For those that bought tickets on www.ticketbreak.com we have a list of names who purchased tickets and you will be automatically added to the list at Mod Club on Friday August 22, 2008. The list is open until 12:30 AM. If you bought tickets from a promoter, please contact them to be added to the list. If you purchased tickets from Play De Record please contact me directly at [email protected]
Once again we apologize that this did not unfold as we planned. Thanks for the patience and thanks for the phenominal vibe on the boat. The party was extremely memorable. The SOS boys thoroughly enjoyed the crowd and do wish they could have played longer as well.
Best,
Carey
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