In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Brian Dominic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >I'm pleased to be able to announce that there WILL be a GiG (Great >Internet Getogether) in 2009. The venue will be the Soar Boating Club >at Normanton on Soar (location at: >http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?X=451400&Y=323250&A=Y&Z=1 ) > >and will be held on the weekend before next year's National at >Redhill, which is only an hour or three's boating away. There may well >be a limit on the number of boats attending - the SBC's Commodore is >slightly bothered that they may well get a good number of bookings >from AWCC members wanting a handy mooring near to the National. In >view of this, we may have to restrict boat numbers to 25 or 30, so >when entries are called for you'll have to get your fingers out! > >For those of you who haven't been, the event is a weekend affair, >starting at Friday lunchtime. There are some more-or-less organised >events: an "open mike" session on Friday night, some sort of musical >entertainment on Saturday night, a barbeque and a Mammoth Chinese >Takeaway, traditionally held on Sunday night. There is also a quiz and >an auction, and there has been a cruise in the past - we went to >Loughborough in 2001. Unorganised events (like the tea party) also >happen. > >There is plenty of room for those who want to attend with tents and >caravans, and the SBC lay on a very good bar, with guest ales. We >usually get to drink these dry.................... > >I'm happy to act as co-ordinator with SBC, but we'll be needing a >Harbourmaster, Camping Field Supervisor, Quiz Setter and >TakeawayMeister at the very least so if you wish to volunteer, let us >know. We'll also need somebody to design and produce the GiG logowear >and mug. > >I look forward to a cracking weekend! > >Brian L Dominic > >Web Sites: > >Canals: http://www.brianscanalpages.co.uk > I hope that we'll be able to make it - depends on my Greenland plans for next summer that should be finalised in a month or so. If we can come then I'd be prepared to act as Camping Field Supervisor for the GiG - will confirm at the end of October once we're back from a month of boaty activity - 2 weeks on Sometimes, a week of WRG (5 days chainsaw training for me then a weekend working on the 7 locks dig deep project on the Wilts & Berks) then 5 days on a somewhat bigger vessel as we join the QE2 for one of her last voyages before she retires to Bilbao, le Verdon and St. Peter's Port.
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