[CINC] SB CINC Boat Kit News

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Hi All,
 
List of reminders for SB Boat Kits:
 
1.  Please do not leave kit items unattended. 
2.  Please keep baleen on top.  
3.  The Friday volunteer turns in sighting reports.
4.  We are still filling out additional detailed otter sighting reports if there is an otter sighting.  Extra data sheets are stored in thick white binder labeled Resources and Extra Data Sheets.
5.  Please help to keep kit tidy and organized.
6.  If items are missing, torn, broken, etc., please let me know.
7.  Please read Joel's posting (below line) from Mar. 31st
 
Missing CX item:  The waterproof humpback guide
This item was replaced, however please check to see if it possibly migrated with your belongings. 
 
Thanks to Valerie for her updated visuals and Sally for her printed binder reminders
 
Thanks for responding directly to me with concerns (not to all) re: SB CINC boat (CX & DD) kits, and contact Lisa Anderson for IPCO CINC kit concerns, and Joel Justin for PID questions or concerns.  

Best,
 
Debra Herring 
(SB boat kit monitor)
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>From Joel Justin
PID Coordinator
Mar. 31
 



Hi Fellow Volunteers,
 
In the past, the sighting logs (both blank and completed) were in the large white binder with other resource materials in the whale kit. To avoid having to lug around this large binder to record your sightings, we have now provided a small white binder that contains blank sighting logs only. Please use this small binder to keep a few blank sighting logs in while you roam around the boat, or for PhotoID'ers, in the wheelhouse or on the flybridge. This will keep the other resource materials in the large binder in the whale kit for other volunteer naturalists onboard to use and alleviate your having to lug the large binder around with you. If you have a different technique you use to managing sighting logs while on the boat (like a clipboard with a rubber band around the bottom to keep the papers from flying around), that's fine. You may continue using that. Here's a quick summary of the process:
 


If you are the volunteer who will be recording the sightings, get the small binder out of the whale kit. 
If there are any completed sighting logs in it (there shouldn't be), put them in the large binder in chronological order with the other completed logs. 
Make sure you have 3-6 blank sighting logs and 1-2 of the special otter sighting logs in the small binder and use it during your day on the boat. There are plenty of extra blank sheets in the large binder. And again, if you have your own technique for managing your sighting logs for the day, you may use that. 
At the end of the day, remove all the completed sighting logs from the small binder and put them in the large binder in chronological order with the other completed logs. 
Replace both binders back in the whale kit. 
If you are the last naturalist on Friday, remember to collect all the completed sighting logs for the week and put them in the Sightings Envelope located in the Santa Barbara CINMS office rack card holder.

 
For reference, the large binder is labeled "Resources and Extra Data Sheets" and the small binder is labeled "Sighting Reports". This is already implemented on the Condor Express and will be shortly on the Island Packers boats.
 
Hopefully this makes your lives a little easier. Let me know if you have any questions.
 
Thanks, Joel...




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