From: zvalten@aol.com [mailto:zvalten@aol.com]
Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2008 11:42 PM
To: info@emyr.org
Subject: Re: You are invited to the occasion of 20. EMYR anniversary Dear Hasan, this was realy wonderful to have your Email today!!!! You won´t believe it, since 4 weeks we are in Saint-Martin/West-Indies and tomorrow the newly rebuilt NEREE, a truly wonderful ship, will arrive from NAJAD- Sweden under the stewardship of a professional british crew since Zdenka still was too weak to do a second transatlantic crossing. We will take NEREE north to the wonderful British Virgin Islands, our favourite region, and  sail her from there south again to Trinidad, where she will be laid up for the forthcoming hurrican season in late MAY.We are due to return to Trinidad by late November 08 and than may sail NEREE accross the Panama channel or go south to Latin America. Zdenka is fine, but still on two crunches..., what, however, doesn´t prevent her from dancing.....She will be operated again in early June in Paris and than may hopefully be back to a normal walking condition without crunches. For the rest of the year we are most happy residents of Monaco and participants in the famous Monaco Yacht Club.
Now to the EMYR 2009: As NEREE will still stay most likely in the West-Indies, we can only do this with the Catamaran BINGO and our friends Christian and Danielle. We expect both in early April in the West-Indies, where they shall stay together with us for the rest of the local sailing season on NEREE. I am most certain, that they will most enthousiasticly support the EMYR-09 project. We shall discuss all this with them and revert to you in MAY with a final decision. Everything will be done in order to be with you in 2009 participating too in all sailing options you may plan and helping you to guide a group. As you know, there is no kidding....., but lots of fun!!!! As we return always only in late November after the end of the hurrican season to the West-Indies, we shall have plenty of time. So, please, put us already on your reservation list and do wait for the final confirmation in MAY. All our data are already with you, no changes, but unfortunately some more years have gone by....., some more gray hairs too, but the spirit, dear friend, is unchanged!!!!Please extend our friendship to your lovely live, to Umuth and to all former and still existing EMYR friends. We love you and you know this, VOLKMAR & ZDENKA, S.Y. NEREE