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Oh goodie - I shall see you there - they told me I get to paddington and turn right so it is easy to get to! I am popping along for the day - which day is best?

 

Hi Bones

 

When you get off the train, do not walk towards the front but look to the rear, there should be some steps going up to a gantry take those steps at the top turn right and just keep walking.

 

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&sour...mp;t=h&z=17

 

On this map you can see the walkway at the top near the Padddington Underground sign. (looks like a snake)

 

Little Venice is up and to the left if you zoom out.

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Don't worry, as long as you are there around 4pm on Friday everyone starts moving into the pool to moor stern on to the south side of the pool where the Waterbus normally picks up from. Boat ballet! Short boats near the blue bridge and the Waterside Cafe and longer boats towards the Paddington basin/Warwick Road bridge. The harbourmaster has lots of experience I'm told so just have a large beer and relax. At least your 70 foot ish of steel so should have any worries except for gongoozlers.

 

D :lol:

As I said, thats what I was told last year. Yes it works if you are in the Pool. If you didn't go and book while you were there last year you have very LITTLE chance of being in the Pool. The rest are first come, first served. If you want to be near the Pool get there EARLY.

The other thing that rubbed me was the boat I was moored against, they were bank side, didn't pay a penny and weren't booked in.

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Don't worry, as long as you are there around 4pm on Friday everyone starts moving into the pool to moor stern on to the south side of the pool where the Waterbus normally picks up from. Boat ballet! Short boats near the blue bridge and the Waterside Cafe and longer boats towards the Paddington basin/Warwick Road bridge. The harbourmaster has lots of experience I'm told so just have a large beer and relax. At least your 70 foot ish of steel so should have any worries except for gongoozlers.

 

D :lol:

 

 

What a releif ! :-) will be there !

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I'm really confused

 

I have mooring plates that say CC09.

 

It appears from the posts here these are completely meaningless and I just have to try and find somewhere to put my 70 foot boat.

 

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Correct. CC09 just lets you into the Cavalcade area. Mooring, if you're not in the Pool (allocated on an order of entry basis), is along Delamere Terrace or Paddington Basin. It's all in the bumph sent with the CC09 labels.

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Woo hoo!

 

Dave & I will be in London on Saturday on a coach trip to a matinee performance of Oliver - We get a couple of hours free in the morning for sughtseeing so we intend to jump on the tube and seek out Little Venice.

 

Hope we get a chance to say hello to a few of you before we have to dash off again.

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All the bumph I had just says about the festival. There's no layout or anything. So if I turn up with 70 foot boat there is someone there to moor me up?

If you are 70 foot I suggest you get there lunch time tomorrow at the latest. This is working on my experience there last year. The only reserved moorings were for boats in the Pool

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Ok so I arrived... some person on a tug that kept getting in the way (I was towing) said "Go back to the visitor moorings" by then I was fedup so I just moored round the back of paddington station.

 

What's really needed here is what they do at ricki. Clear moorings with clear allocation. Anyway I'm happy here just sad I wasted £32.00

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Ok so I arrived... some person on a tug that kept getting in the way (I was towing) said "Go back to the visitor moorings" by then I was fedup so I just moored round the back of paddington station.

 

What's really needed here is what they do at ricki. Clear moorings with clear allocation. Anyway I'm happy here just sad I wasted £32.00

 

More pics at http://www.londoncanals.co.uk/w-ops/calv09.html

 

Few have bothered to display their mooring numbers, thats probably one reason the system is in chaos!

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Had a great day today and I think we have discovered how the system works.

 

We were told to go to the information tent to book for boat handling. So Lil' Chris did, there, he was told "see that lady there with the clipboard go and see her" so he did, when he got there she said "oh go to the information tent"

 

However, later on we did meet up with a lovely lady and we're both duly booked for the boat handling.

 

Woohoo

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Dave and I managed to look in for a couple of hours this morning. We were on a coach trip for a matinee performance of Oliver at The Theatre Royal. We hopped on the tube at Covent Garden, changed at Piccadilly circus and then popped up at Warwick Avenue - I sent a text from each place to Baldock to forwarn him of our imminent arrival:

 

Covent Garden

Piccadilly Circus

Warwick Avenue

 

Then the reply came:

 

Mornington Crescent! :lol:

 

Wonderful to see Chris and Lise again and The HBF - also lovely to meet Debbifiggi. The beer was good, the lebanese lamb and chicken wraps were great and a bargain at only £3.50. It was just a shame we did not have longer to spare before we had to jump back on the tube and head to the theatre.

 

However the show did not dissapoint at all. Oliver seemed to have a cast of thousands and was extremely impressive - sets, costumes and production was fantastic. Rowan Atkinson did a fantastic job of Fagin (meets Mr Bean) - complete with a teddy and a scene where he pretends the pieces of jewellery are talking to each other! - Hilarious!!!! The one dissapointment for me was that Bullseye was not an English Bull Terrier! - how could they? :lol:

 

Back onto the coach and homeward bound - we drive past .............................

 

Mornington Crescent! :lol:

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Utterly fun run down from Uxbridge with Baldock and Lise on Friday, and a thoroughly nice day today. Great to meet Taf and Little Chris, too. (Taf - when are you going to put an Narrowboat bit on Second Life!?)

 

Shame that circumstance meant I had to leave earlier than I would have liked as was dying to see what evil thoughts Baldock had for the handling competition .... :lol:

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Yesterday at Little Venice was a lot of fun. '09 was a lot better than '08. Pity about the bar tent closing at 5.30 though but the Warwick Castle didn't. No idea when it closed. Did it close? Got a sore head.

 

Congratulations and a very big thank you to all those volunteers who put in so much hard work on this event. It's much appreciated! (Especially the teenager manning the Sth London IWA stand who when asked "I see you do trips out on the Thames Tideway....do you do narrowboat trips across the Bay of Biscay?" thought about it seriously, then answered "I think so but only in the summer.")

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yes thanks to all the volunteers!

 

I asked today "Where is the boat handling breifing?"

 

"Over there" He pointed at the stalls.

 

I think someone needs to tell the volunteers where the boat handling briefing is. - Luckily Baldock designed the course so we were able to ask him. Looks like an exciting course!

 

BUT I do echo your sentiments stort_mark. It is wonderful in terms of the fact it is happening at all. I don't want to seem like a boring old f*rt even if I am one. I would be really happy to volunteer to help with this event having been here from a boat coming for the first time - there are frustrations but its a huge event with loads of boats. There seems to be the odd upset with moorings but I think that's normal of any festival. There's a lot of logistical difficulties here that I was not fully aware of. Mainly things to do with the fact of rights to moor. If someone doesn't pay it seems they can moor where they like here. Except in the main pound, I reckon they'd be lynched if they tried.

 

Chiswick I think THINKS he has signed for the boat handling but I think he's just put his name on the list (there are masses of lists) not actually got a slot.

 

 

Utterly fun run down from Uxbridge with Baldock and Lise on Friday, and a thoroughly nice day today. Great to meet Taf and Little Chris, too. (Taf - when are you going to put an Narrowboat bit on Second Life!?)

 

Shame that circumstance meant I had to leave earlier than I would have liked as was dying to see what evil thoughts Baldock had for the handling competition .... :lol:

 

 

Yeah good to meet you to Chris, well the great news is that I already have working narrowboats on SL you can steer.

 

Pnc Blessed - Im me!

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Yesterday at Little Venice was a lot of fun. '09 was a lot better than '08. Pity about the bar tent closing at 5.30 though but the Warwick Castle didn't. No idea when it closed. Did it close? Got a sore head.

 

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The bar closes at 5:30 to get rid of the general public and reopens an hour later for boaters and volunteers.

Sue

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