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Ticket sales for the Booze Cruise are going great! This weekend 25 were sold. The boat is 150 passengers, so I know this thing is going to sell out. So get your tickets now... use the order form on the booze cruise page, or if you see me at one of the bars on the site, I'll have tickets with me.

The crew for the Booze Cruise is set, and they are all-stars! From Red Rock West: Jessica and Tracy; from Doc Holliday's: Joanna and Li; and representing from Coyote Ugly Saloon: Char and Maria!

Tickets went on sale today, so snap them up. I am sure this will sell out.

HOLY SHIT! The Booze Cruise is the same day that Fleet Week New York begins!! What timing! We will be boozing and cruising out there amid Navy battleships! This is going to be so awesome!

People are e-mailing me about the booze cruise. Yes, you can buy blocks of 10 tickets. Bring your friends from work. Boarding begins at 6:30 and there's a bar there. The boat is at New York Sky Port Marina, Aviation Marina, East 23 street & FDR Drive (not Chelsea Piers).

I am really psyched up about the first nycbp.com booze cruise, on Wednesday, May 21. I have wanted to have one for a long time, and now it will happen. I am calling the cruise, "I Love New York 2003" for obvious reasons.

Tickets are going on sale at noon, Friday, April 4, for $45. (They will be $55 the day of the cruise, if any are left).

What I am most excited about, besides the obvious fun of sailing around the greatest city on the planet and having unlimited supplies of drinks at hand, is that I am getting some of my favorite bartenders in the city to guest bartend! It will be soooo much fun to see the bartenders from different bars together.

That was what happened when we had the first (and only) nycbp.com bartender awards a couple years ago (that broke my bank, so there's not been another one). I have been calling and e-mailing bartenders all over town to line up a great team to work part-time on the booze cruise. There is something special about seeing a bartender from one place next to another from across town. Kind of like when Superman met Spider-Man in the old DC-Marvel cross-overs in the 1970s. I'll tell you Friday who is on the confirmed list -- but I will give you a hint -- every one of them owns a cowboy hat.

We are going on the Half Moon, which is owned by Marco Polo Cruises, the best in the booze cruise business in the city. They have run the successful Murphguide cruises and the wild 2002 Who's on First Cruise (that ended with a drunk in the drink, literally).

It is a terrific boat, it holds upwards of 200 people, has 2 bars, a dance floor and lots of space to party on. This will be open bar, with food, a DJ, and suprise guests.

Keep checking the site for details about the booze cruise, it will be a blast, that's for sure.