10 Dixie Queen Saturday 17-July-2010
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hat a fantastic day out by
many of our mem- bers, family and friends. Many thanks must go to Jim Haines for suggesting and organizing the event.
t started with all of us meeting at
Upminster Railway Station, and thanks to Jim giving navigating lessons to a few taxi drivers at Fenchurch Street we made it on time......
T
he boat is the DIXIE QUEEN - or should I say Ship? I was always told that
“a ship sails on the Sea and Boats on the river” and “you can put a boat on a ship but not a ship on a boat”. Neverless, this boat- ship is a pseudo-Mississippi paddle steamer, which is moored at Tower Bridge, and usually travels from St Katharine's Pier to the Thames Barrier for a four hour round-trip, but on our trip it only traveled half-way as after an hour it turned-about back to St Katharines Pier, picked something up and set off again for another hour trip to the same spot it had just done, and not reaching the Barrier as we all had expected! There were many rumors as to why it returned - some said that we ran out of beer as it sure
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was being downed very quickly. Perhaps we could all be excused as it was a lovely hot sunny day. Nevertheless, there were no complaints, perhaps because most of the passengers did not notice as they were being suitably entertained by two fantastic Jazz groups in the large saloons on two decks.
BARRY PALSERS SAVOY JAZZMEN and
MAX COLLIER RHYTHM ACES
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