JKay
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The Princess Matilda will not get to meet the Queen after all….
Posted by Shane on February 9, 2012 1 comment
The Princess Matilda is not going to be part of the flotilla on the Thames in June to mark the Queen’s Jubilee. The person who is organising ‘the bigger recreational craft’ on behalf of the Dutch Barge Association (they suspended our membership as we owed them £15 – and I thought I had canceled it years ago) has a rehearsal taking place at the end of April. Most people with Dutch barges are on the upper Thames the Medway or the Essex Backwaters. The Princess Matilda is wintering on the Isle of Thanet.
It would take us 2 possibly 3 days depending on the tides and weather of course, to get up to Teddington, which is where the tidal Thames ends, and where the rehearsal begins. Then we’d have to take her back as we don’t have a Thames mooring. Tim will be working April & May and cannot take time off. So we’re out of the pageant, shame really as we all know what a brave little ship we have and how many of her fans were looking forward to seeing her with her bunting flying. But this doesn’t alter the fact that we have a great skipper in Timothy Spall. The first person to skipper a Dutch barge around the British Isles. We hope everyone involved has a wonderful day.
So there may be a space for"Oldgit" and his shiny new props
Posted by Shane on February 9, 2012 1 comment
The Princess Matilda is not going to be part of the flotilla on the Thames in June to mark the Queen’s Jubilee. The person who is organising ‘the bigger recreational craft’ on behalf of the Dutch Barge Association (they suspended our membership as we owed them £15 – and I thought I had canceled it years ago) has a rehearsal taking place at the end of April. Most people with Dutch barges are on the upper Thames the Medway or the Essex Backwaters. The Princess Matilda is wintering on the Isle of Thanet.
It would take us 2 possibly 3 days depending on the tides and weather of course, to get up to Teddington, which is where the tidal Thames ends, and where the rehearsal begins. Then we’d have to take her back as we don’t have a Thames mooring. Tim will be working April & May and cannot take time off. So we’re out of the pageant, shame really as we all know what a brave little ship we have and how many of her fans were looking forward to seeing her with her bunting flying. But this doesn’t alter the fact that we have a great skipper in Timothy Spall. The first person to skipper a Dutch barge around the British Isles. We hope everyone involved has a wonderful day.
So there may be a space for"Oldgit" and his shiny new props
