"Roger Millin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] : huge distance from the show-ground, despite an early block booking : (and the organisers had wanted to isolate us further at one stage by : leaving the swing bridge open all day, leaving the southern moorers a : huge hike around the perimeter of the site to get into the show). One : boater we met, who had booked well after us and yet was situated : right by the entrance, openly boasted to us as we lock-shared with : him that it was because he knew someone within the senior ranks of : the IWA that he got his preferential mooring. This sort of nepotism : degrades the whole organisation IMO. : Crick is a much better show and I feel that I will never again make : the effort to attend the National by boat and, probably not, by road. : : Phew, must go and lie down. Agreeing with Steve *and* having a good : rant all in one day........it's all getting too much ;-))
And Adrian. Reference the bookings,it was better than the year before. How you can have an early booking in and so be in the draw and still be the last boats in the moorings I don't know. Ann and Ian were so close to the bridge that if they had moored there you couldn't get a broad beam boat through. It was suggested they moored the other side of the bridge, where they could have moored for nothing. Last year was the last time I organised a block booking and this year, if we get there is the last time we will attend a National. -- Brian Ancient Order of Sewer Ants Visit this site and help save our waterways http://www.savethewaterways.org.uk/
