[JONAT] I am Jonat!

[Bob]

Mark

You echo my thoughts exactly!

One thing I disagree on though ... don't keep these thoughts to the end of
the Tour - remember we are only slightly over half way done, and the SC's
who are yet to be "on Tour" can benefit from the wisdom of the "post Tour"
SC's.

Bob

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From: jonat-admin@autox.team.net [mailto:jonat-admin@autox.team.net] On
Behalf Of Mark Stephenson
Sent: June 2, 2004 11:42 PM
To: jonat@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: [JONAT] I am Jonat!

Certainly this is something we can discuss, and probably in much more detail
at the end of the tour. Hopefully we can put our heads together and figure
out
what worked and what didn't. Here are some random thoughts.

One thing we learned is that JONAT is much more a relay than a marathon.
Having a local club that is had a few dozen active members (excluding the
members you never see) is part of the formula for success. Another is having
a
handful of people who are either retired. independently wealthy, or willing
to
spend a week of their vacation traveling the route. Combining those three
data, means that your primary vision really has to be local. Choose the
route
and the activities for the locals because there will be few, if any
long-runners.

If we didn't do it this year, in the future we should plan the tour around
the
regions of the local clubs (or better yet, get some kind of official
sanction/cooperation from JCNA). The areas that worked well had a connection
to a local club. Phoenix, San Diego, LA, San Francisco, all were headed by
local JCNA club members. There are probably others, and it will be
interesting
to see if they had as much success. The important thing is that you have a
ready clientele of Jaguar afficienados in the local clubs. You don't need
many
-- 3-5% of them is enough to transform it from a solo run to a small convoy.

I realize that some of us aren't joiners and some of the local Jaguar clubs
are reputed to be a bit snobbish, but I can guarantee that any club of any
size at all has some members who want to get their cars out on the road. You
join the club to make connections with those people. If you don't get along
with the "trailer queen" crowd, then avoid them, but don't not join.
However,
if you can talk the TQ crowd into it, the annual concours can be the JONAT
weekend.

It will be interesting to see if there were any sectors that equalled the
success of those with a connection to a local club.

Next, find something unique and local for every sector. We had the Rt. 66
Fun
Run. Vancouver had the Van Dusen, LA had the Peterson Museum, I can't even
remember what all SF had, but it was a lot.

Weekends are critical. A three day sector mid-week isn't going to attract
much
attention unless you have something stupendous to offer. But, if every
sector
had at least a Saturday or a Sunday and was at least three or four days
long,
it would make something that local people could take a few days off to join
for the full length, or they could link in just for the weekend and be part
of
a transition. Of course this wouldn't be written in stone, especially when
there are local events.

Anyway, those are some thoughts I had for the next go-around.

Mark - AZ

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From: jonat-admin@autox.team.net on behalf of Alan Heartfield
Sent: Wed 6/2/2004 8:30 PM
To: jonat-chat@autox.team.net; JONAT@autox.team.net
Subject: [JONAT] I am Jonat!



Hello all,

Jonat has degenerated into a modern-day version of the pony express.  Ian
Bailey
rushed Jay out to the end of the Regina sector today.  Mike Scales was along
in
his Apollo, but Ian's was the only Jag.  I met him all alone in my XJS, we
transferred all the paraphenalia, had an ice cream and a quick chat and each
re-
traced our steps home.  All 300 km of them.  So the 'tour' is down to single
cars
now. And it looks like for the rest of the Winnipeg sector at least, Jay
will
not even
be travelling in a Jaguar.  I hope he will catch a ride in a Jensen to
Minnesota, but
if not, then it'll be in the  back of a UPS truck.
Speaking for myself, but I suspect others also, the Canadian turnout has
been
very disappointing.  And it looks like the rest of the US section is going
to
be a bit
thin, also.  What happened to all the tourers?  Doesn't anyone 'truck'
anymore?  If
it wasn't for Regina (of all places) Western Canada would have had almost no
participants at all.
Ian said there is talk of making it mandatory that everyone do the sectors
before
and after their home sector as a minimum.  Good idea, but how many would
commit then?  Something has to change.  A tour of one or two cars is no tour
at
all.
Perhaps a change in route so people could take a mini-tour would work.  In
other
words, make it possible for people to loop around a section of the continent
and do
it in no more than 4 weeks.  Calgary-Denver-SF-Vcvr-Calgary or
Phoenix-LA-SF-
Denver-Phoenix for example.  Well, maybe Lethbridge.  Calgary has had its
chance :-).
Tonight Jay is resting at the corner of 50 and 100, almost spack dap on top
of
the
Central Meridian.  Lets hope he has as good a trip home as he has had
getting
to
the middle of the continent.
Bob - glad to hear you are online again, but at what cost! Ian says you had
some
'help' in the disaster.   Remember the 'P' in PC means Personal.  What
happened
- did a PBX destroy your modem?  Surely it can't have been a software
problem?

Buffalo Alan
Winnipeg Sector Co-ordinator and Express Rider.
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