Calais ferme
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FullCircle
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Tillergirl would've put that through Google Translate for us
The Captain of the Region informs us that the Hundred Years War is far from over you Rosbifs, and the troops are manning the battlements
1-I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty-headed animal food trough wiper! I fart in your general direction!
2- Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!
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Toutvabien
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Heading home towards Brightlingsea from Brittany at the weekend, is Calais now open for business or is the building work still underway?
bendyone
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I was there yesterday, the work is still not completed, maybe the end of September. There is space for visitors on the South wall but not the best of places to be.
Toutvabien
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Brilliant, can't beat personal experience. Many thanks, will probably avoid Calais now. Currently enjoying the sunshine in St Malo after a couple of months in North Brittany.
bendyone
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Dont want to put you off, probably OK for a one night stop or pick up one of the buoys on the outside of the lock gates, or if you can dry out try the wall in the small harbour ( even the drying grid would be OK )
Doineann
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Has anyone (bendyone?) any idea of the current positon? It all seems to have gone quiet
Athene V30
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Some friends passed through Calais at the end of August on their way into the canals heading south to the Med. I received the following from them........
We weren't sure what reception we were going to get in Calais, as the marina had officially been closed to visitors for nearly a year, as they are undertaking major works to improve the facilities. Happily, a nice French lady was on the pontoon to direct us to a suitable spot for mooring. Visitors spaces are still very limited, but the welcome is the same. It seems that the works are overunning and are over budget. Its not just in the UK that this sort of thing happens then.
Upon enquiry, it seems that it's still possible to get the masts lowered here, I just need to go and ask Freddie, the chap who runs the chandlery.
We weren't sure what reception we were going to get in Calais, as the marina had officially been closed to visitors for nearly a year, as they are undertaking major works to improve the facilities. Happily, a nice French lady was on the pontoon to direct us to a suitable spot for mooring. Visitors spaces are still very limited, but the welcome is the same. It seems that the works are overunning and are over budget. Its not just in the UK that this sort of thing happens then.
Upon enquiry, it seems that it's still possible to get the masts lowered here, I just need to go and ask Freddie, the chap who runs the chandlery.
bendyone
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I haven't been over since the end of Aug but the latest is
"September 29: Area-consultation meeting representatives of recreational boaters to rate
September 30: theoretical end of poses paving and asphalt
Mid-October: two operational hoists
Second half of October: travel pontoons and basin bottom boats for implementation in their new configuration
October-November: new parking + final work securing new dock and provisional flushing basin side"
So it looks like the pontoon will be back in place by the end of October and the travel hoist may be working. This should have all been finished by May this year.
I will stay out of the water until next year now. Fingers crossed I will be back on my berth by May 2017!
"September 29: Area-consultation meeting representatives of recreational boaters to rate
September 30: theoretical end of poses paving and asphalt
Mid-October: two operational hoists
Second half of October: travel pontoons and basin bottom boats for implementation in their new configuration
October-November: new parking + final work securing new dock and provisional flushing basin side"
So it looks like the pontoon will be back in place by the end of October and the travel hoist may be working. This should have all been finished by May this year.
I will stay out of the water until next year now. Fingers crossed I will be back on my berth by May 2017!
bendyone
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Getting there maybe another month, The travelhoist is being delivered in the next 2 weeks., The visitors pontoon is back in place.
Getting there maybe another month, The travelhoist is being delivered in the next 2 weeks., The visitors pontoon is back in place.
Daydream believer
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Can one assume that Calais is now back to normality & visitors berthing etc all Ok
Supine Being
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For what it's worth, I emailed someone local last week and they told me that all is in order now.
bendyone
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Calais is back up and running, I was there yesterday to tidy up and prepare for launching next weekend. Only a year late after they said the travelhoist would be there.
Anyway my clean bottom
and here is the travelhoist
Anyway my clean bottom
and here is the travelhoist
Supine Being
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Thanks for the update Bendyone. Glad you're about to get back in the water. I look forward to seeing how it all looks over the whit bank holiday.