Venice Canals Holiday Boat Parade

Dec '09 13 Sun 12:45 PM
Location
MG's in Venice

432 N Venice Blvd
Venice, CA 90291

This is a private home or office

How to find us
"We will be meeting at Michael's Place"

Estimated attendance
 9  people attended.
4.50 4.502 (2 ratings)

Who organized?
Chris Ashford

Price

$38.00 per person
refund policy




Sunday December 13th is the annual Venice Canals Holiday Boat Parade. The parade starts about 4pm and goes around the canals, which by that point are lit up with holiday lights, etc. I usually just strap a plastic christmas tree onto one end of the kayak and a menorah to the other and paddle around, but with 8 SCOA kayaks we could make it a bit more of a presence if anybody felt like it.

The canals are shallow - 3' so you don't even need to know how to swim :-) Sign up and come on out and be social!

Here are some of the photos from LAST year - here

Overview:
Signing up here automatically signs you up for: 1) Pre-Game boat decoration party Wednesday December 9th - 2) Venice Canals Boat Parade & DeepavaliChristmasChanukahKwanzaaEidalAdha Party - and of course sea kayak event.



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  • Michael Gat
    Posted Dec 11, 2009 12:17 PM
    Weather will remain unstable through Saturday night but looks to clear up by Sunday afternoon. With luck this will give us another amazing sunset over the canals, just like last year. The BBQ will be fired up about 12:30 and I'll have some of "the basics" available along with some beer wine soft drinks and bar stuff. Feel free to bring anything else you'd like. Bring a warm layer for watching the parade. Oh, and please bring any ipods you have with good party music on them.
  • Michael Gat
    Posted Dec 11, 2009 12:17 PM
    432 N Venice Blvd is across from the intersection of N. Venice and Mildred, it's a set of bright-colored buildings. The name on the intercom is GAT, just hit #4 and we'll let you in. Street parking is usually available or you can park in the lot at Venice and Pacific. For those of you who are feline-sensitive, I'll clean the place well in the morning and put the beasts downstairs if necessary. Let me know. They tend to hide from crowds in any case. Claritin will be available at the door.
  • Chris Ashford
    Posted Nov 24, 2009 11:19 AM
    Co - Organizer
    This signup is no ONLY for SEA KAYAK rentals. If you want to participate in the other events sign up on your own. Hope this helps
  • Michael Gat
    Posted Nov 13, 2009 1:57 PM
    Now looks like we're on for a BBQ and more kayak decorating starting around noon. Then we'll migrate over to the canals for the parade for a couple of hours and return to my place after.
  • Rebecca
    Posted Oct 19, 2009 9:19 PM
    Michael, you rock! I like the pre-game idea
  • Michael Gat
    Posted Oct 19, 2009 8:10 PM
    Chris and I are discussing plans now that he's done with that whole getting married thing. Basic idea for this year is we'll try to set aside some advance time to decorate the kayaks during the week, probably in my garage and probably involving pizza and drinks. Then we'll do the boat parade and after party back and my place for paddlers and non-paddlers alike.

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