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Ransom · Joined: 27 Sep 2007 Posts: 106 Location: Grants Pass, OR

I know it's a bit early, but might be a good time to start thinking about Ojai. We just made our reservations at the Oakridge Inn, on the off chance that we do get to go this year. But, the manager of the Inn had heard that Ojai had been canceled. We told him it had been condensed into one weekend. Right now, the rates are at a low $76 dollars a night..down from $96 last year. So, with only 33 or so rooms available, you might want to get your reservations in now, as the Oakridge is the first hotel listed on the Ojai web site.

And this year, I'm calling ahead of time to make sure the hot tub is working!!!! LOL

Red-Handed Jill · Joined: 30 Aug 2005 Posts: 1960 Location: Redwood Shores

I had the same conversation with him as well when I made my reservation. Get 'em while they are available!
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Lady Jaxx · Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2010 11:55 am Post subject:

We will camp...

round tent - need at least 16' round

can be put in a corner....

will bring Murphy - camp guard / Rum Runner...

Mayhaps... Ronia - Camp alarm and chatter box...
Lad - alas... school starts same time.... gak!
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vixious val · Joined: 22 Dec 2006 Posts: 436

I am camping too 10 X 10, no guy lines. Both Mad Sam & I, she is coming too! THis is the weekend of Sept 18/19 right? Let me know, I have to put in for time off. So does Sam

vixious val · Joined: 22 Dec 2006 Posts: 436

It is the weekend of Sept 18 & 19th. Here is the website:
http://www.goldcoastfestivals.com/OjaiPirate.html

Valerie

Lady Jaxx · Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2010 8:41 am Post subject:

Heads up guys:

~ATTENTION ALL OJAI PARTICIPANTS~
After 20 years of event production at Lake Casitas, the Lake Management has decided to increase our fees by assessing a “camping and use fee” for all participants. Everyone participating will be charged $12, which will be good for the weekend and will include wrist band, camping Friday & Saturday, and vehicle pass. Vendors will receive ONE free pass per booth. Children under twelve will be excluded.
The lake Rangers will be enforcing this new fee by monitoring the vehicles on-site. If proper vehicle “tag” is not visible on your vehicle, Lake Casitas will issue a fine of $50. Your vehicle “tag” will be issued at time of registration.
We appreciate your participation in our events over the years and hope you will continue with us.
Thank you,
Dick & Condit Wixon
Gold Coast Festivals, Inc.
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Red-Handed Jill · Joined: 30 Aug 2005 Posts: 1960 Location: Redwood Shores

Ransom told me that their costs were getting too prohibitive, so this makes sense. It was either that or move the event elsewhere and not allow black powder, which would spoil it completely! Compared to the other costs (gas, hotel, etc.) $12 is nothing!
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Oderlesseye · Joined: 16 Jun 2008 Posts: 20 Location: San Diego

Eye am throwin in me lot with ye ..Eye will require a 9x12 Space for me 'A' frame and booty.
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Lady Jaxx · Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2010 4:31 pm Post subject:

Yes, I do not mind the $12 either... tis much cheaper than a hotel for sure!
and much more fun! ;)
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vixious val · Joined: 22 Dec 2006 Posts: 436

I am all for that too! I want to keep Ojai going! Mine is 10 X 10 no guy lines!

Valerie Patten
Sandra Moize

Red-Handed Jill · Joined: 30 Aug 2005 Posts: 1960 Location: Redwood Shores

The lofting shed is 10' x 20' and the Bang and Boom hut + awning is 20'x10'.
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Poison Quill · Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2010 1:16 pm Post subject:

OK I'll get "kracken" on the camp layout next week. Here is a repost from Facebook. Our application came in and I can confirm/deny the following rumors...

Looks like some of the rumors surrounding the Ojai Pirate Faire were correct and others were not. Here's the skinny:

Please be advised that due to the event organizers being charged a fee by Lake Casitas, EACH OF US WILL NEED TO COUGH UP $12 PER PERSON FOR THE WEEKEND. (Still a great deal for one of the most fun events ever IMHO!) Please plan to pay at the gate when you pick up your wristband. Please bring cash.

Also new this year, when you pick up your wristband get a tag for your vehicle. Lake Casitas rangers will charge untagged vehicles a $50 fine.

There are no indications that there are any changes to the black powder regulations on this years application. Shoot away mates! Arrr!!
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dman · Joined: 23 Mar 2007 Posts: 253 Location: Soledad , CA

Sorry our pirating days are done for this year so no Ojai for Victoria and I *#2

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vixious val · Joined: 22 Dec 2006 Posts: 436

D-man & Victoria, You will be missed at Ojai! :0( I hope things get better for you both!

madPete · Joined: 16 Jul 2010 Posts: 8

Ahoy to TO7S crew!

Do ye have room fer a couple o new hands fer this here voyage?

madPete and hawkins from Arizona would like to camp with ya.

approx 7x14 Wedge tent and fly.
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Poison Quill · Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2010 7:28 pm Post subject:

Ahoy Pete!
I will do my best to fit you in! Working on the layout now...
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Poison Quill · Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2010 8:11 pm Post subject:

Jaxx you're talking a 16' circumference, not diameter, right? Also is there any way we can go smaller than 10' x 10' on the kitchen this year? I'm having trouble fitting everyone.
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Poison Quill · Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2010 9:47 pm Post subject:

Crew, we have space issues and I'm going to need everyone to be willing to be a bit flexible here.

Jaxx, I need ot know the diameter of your tent. I can fit a 10' but there is no way in heck I can fit a 16' diameter tent. I am hoping you weren't talking diameter on your earlier post?

Jaxx, can the kitchen be smaller than 10' x 10'? If your tent really is 16' across, would you rather give up the ktchen, or bring a smaller tent?

Iron Jack and RH Jill, I shortened the fly in front of the Bang & Boom by 2', will that work? Would it be an option not to bring the tent and just use the fly?

This is the reality of what we're dealing with here:

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madPete · Joined: 16 Jul 2010 Posts: 8

I'm sorry I had no idea space was limited at this event.

Please - We don't want to short change yer members. fit us in last if'n ya got room . 7X10 is bout as`small a space as my tent will fit.

Altho we'd prefer to camp with ye if possible, is there modern camping available fer participants? If so that gives us another option.

Thank ye!
mP
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Oderlesseye · Joined: 16 Jun 2008 Posts: 20 Location: San Diego

Well it looks as though the organizers didna give us much room to set up a large group.. Me also thinks it as a Suggestion, to -e- mail them and ask for a few more feet each way to accommodate our needs. Ifen it gets to be too big a problem I could move myself to the waters edge east of the privies. However Eye will be as flexible as possible before coming to that conclusion..
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Poison Quill · Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2010 10:43 pm Post subject:

Space is super limited at Ojai unfortuantely. But we would love to have both of you in camp. So let's see if we can't do some faneggallin' and fit you in. I'm thinking that if Jaxx tent really is 16' in diameter if I put her in the back corner where the kitchen is and reduce the kitchen size I can make this happen.
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Red-Handed Jill · Joined: 30 Aug 2005 Posts: 1960 Location: Redwood Shores

Unfortunately, the fly is held up by the bang and boom hut.

BTW, I don't think Patt will be there - he's been going to Burning Man these past few years and there's only about a week between the events.
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Wicked Wench · Joined: 09 Sep 2005 Posts: 532

My crew and I won't be attending this year's Ojai. Hope you all have a wonderful time... and we'll see you at future events!
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Poison Quill · Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2010 10:24 am Post subject:

OK great, Patt's spot will free up room. Jaxx said the kitchen could be shrunk down so I think we're in good shape. I will revised the drawing and post it here and on facebook
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Lady Jaxx · Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2010 5:05 pm Post subject:

mum... just take the kitchen out... I will tuck it in someplace...

we might be moving Dru back into UC Santa Cruz that same weekend... so we will travel light again....

I would like to roast a chicken or two on the spit..... do you have a larger fire pit? of not... i will bring my baby pit!
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Poison Quill · Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 9:24 pm Post subject:

Ours is about the same size as yours I think. I't just one of those round Home Depot ones.
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Lady Jaxx · Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2010 8:40 am Post subject:

Thanks mum! I will brimg mine! Ta!
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Red-Handed Jill · Joined: 30 Aug 2005 Posts: 1960 Location: Redwood Shores

Also, we need to keep in mind that oftentimes we don't get the space we were allotted. Folks on both ends take a few feet here and there and since we travel further than probably every other group, we're the last ones and end up with less space.

And I'd like to get some ideas about the back fence area. Last year, all we had was a rope to hang from the garden hooks and I threw some fabric I happened to have over it. It looked pretty darn pathetic - everyone else had these nice, tall backdrops that gave their areas some privacy and we had this wimpy, cobbled-together excuse for a fence that anyone could step over. This isn't such a problem with other faires, but since the back of our camp butts up against a road, I'd prefer to err on the side of privacy.

What I'd like to suggest is something like this:

http://www.lowes.com/pd_231190-87439-654194_0_?productId=3159943&Ntt=bamboo+fencing&Ntk=i_products&pl=1&currentURL=/pl__0__s?newSearch=true$Ntt=bamboo%20fencing$y=0$x=0

We could use our existing shepherd's hooks to act as posts to hold it up. I think three of these would do it - the remaining five feet would be covered by the porta potty enclosure.
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Poison Quill · Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2010 10:16 pm Post subject:

It is $21.00 for fifteen feet, so we would need four rolls to do the back of the camp which is fifty feet long. We would have to take that out of the Tales account. It's up to you guys, I can make the purchase if you want, so chime in and let me know and we can do whatever the group agrees upon.
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vixious val · Joined: 22 Dec 2006 Posts: 436

I will pitch in!

Rob Anybody · Joined: 28 Dec 2005 Posts: 58 Location: Solano County

I still have the jute netting we used at Norcal and was planning on bringing it to Ojai. Let me know if there's a use for it.
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vixious val · Joined: 22 Dec 2006 Posts: 436

Rob, that netting was pretty cool and was tall enough to keep people out! :0)

madPete · Joined: 16 Jul 2010 Posts: 8

Hey -it looks like the event policies say ya can't tear down or high tail it out of there before crowd is cleared after 6PM on Sunday... And camps have to be down Sunday night... Is this true?

Aye have a 7 hour drive from Phoenix, was gonna take Friday off, but looks like I need Monday off and a hotel Sunday night ??

Can I take me tent down Sunday morning, what be me options here? What do you all do when driving down from the Northern reaches?

Thank ye,
mP
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Lady Jaxx · Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2010 8:30 am Post subject:

@ Pete... I believe that if you run by the organizers, the fact that you will be out of the camp by Monday, there should be no problem. We have broken most of camp down on Sun... and left mid Monday. The Rum Runners, who are next to us... take 3 days to set up... I do not think that they could break down in one evening.... You could send the organizers a note asking.... We too have a 6/7 hour drive home.....
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Caroleen Cross · Joined: 15 Sep 2005 Posts: 350 Location: here fer now

Oh my, my pirate friends....the time is upon us, and only to be true to my soul......I Can't Wait! Has been TOO LONG! Anything that I can do for anyone on this end, (since I am here), please just ask and I shall do what I can to accomendate your needs. I am so looking forward to this faire!
p33

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Lady Jaxx · Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2010 2:54 pm Post subject:

Aye miss! I will need an able bodied Kitchen Wench / Durty Gurl to run amuck run amuck run amuck with me!
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Poison Quill · Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2010 5:54 pm Post subject:

Pete, that's right, if you have a tent in camp, you have to leave it up until after the faire closes at 6pm on Sunday. You can do some "soft tear down" packing up stuff inside your tent earlier, but no, you cannot pull down a tent before the event is over. They have stopped us when people tried to pack up early. If I put you in the back of the camp, you could tear down early Sunday morning as long as the tent was not up when the faire opens and as long as it doesn't leave a gapping hole in the camp. That's about the only way around it. Let me know ASAP.

Sorry mate, but if your tent is in the encampment ye be there for the long haul. ps#5

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madPete · Joined: 16 Jul 2010 Posts: 8

Apologies, most weekend events we've attended are tearing down by 4pm on Sunday, so this caught us by surprise.
We're lookin at getting monday off and if camping til Monday morning be an option we might be good.

Else we may have to reconsider... getting home at 2-3AM and having to go to work at 7AM makes fer a tough trip.

mP
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Caroleen Cross · Joined: 15 Sep 2005 Posts: 350 Location: here fer now

Aye Lady Jaxx, I was hopin ye didn't replace me......hehehehe ! Put ye in the galley, make me a happy Pirate.....and by & by......gonna be a durtest faire yet.....so to be speakin....hehehehe CAN'T WAIT! p33

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Lady Jaxx · Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 2:20 pm Post subject:

http://www.goldcoastfestivals.com/PirateInfo.html

Just a bit more info!
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Poison Quill · Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2010 11:21 am Post subject:

Those are not participants rates Jaxx listed. Those are the rates for the public to get in at the gate. Participants pay $12 for the whole weekend.
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madPete · Joined: 16 Jul 2010 Posts: 8

Plans are worked out and can be there Early Sat morn thru closing Sunday! who to contact for staying Sunday night? at worst they have a campground there also correct?

mP
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Patrick Hand · Joined: 12 Sep 2005 Posts: 284

Jill already posted this.... but I can't take offa long weekend for Ojai right after taking off a week for Burning Man... So that frees up that space....

(I should be at Sacramento the weekend after that tho....)

Ransom · Joined: 27 Sep 2007 Posts: 106 Location: Grants Pass, OR

@ Pete

Chain Shot and I get a motel room, since for us, the drive down is around 12-13 hrs. We will be driving down on Thursday, and driving back on Monday. Yeah, it's a long haul, but Ojai is our home event, even though NorCal is closer. Ojai is where we first met the Tales gang, and were received like long lost family. It was touch and go this year, whether we could make it or not, but Robert requested and got the time off just yesterday, and we had made our reservations months ago, just in case, since the rooms at the Oakridge Inn fill up fast.

Come on, it's Ojai.... can't miss that!

Anyway, can't wait to see everyone! ps#9

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Old Crow · Joined: 10 Mar 2006 Posts: 61

Ahoy Mates!
I too be wishin' to join ye all fer the festivities down in Ojai. Even though I currently have a broken wing, so to speak, I'm fercastin' to be much better about the time of the event. I too have me 9X9 A frame tent, but should be able to "scale down" if needs must so I can camps out with ye.
I'll be hailin' again in the next few days.

Keep yer noses in the wind,
and yer eyes on the skyline!

McKerrin

Poison Quill · Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2010 11:32 am Post subject:

I will try to get the camp layout up tonight. Old Crow what can you scale down to? I may need to have you go smaller if you can. I'll try to squeeze in the tent.

Pete for camping after the event is over Sunday night they do allow it and the way it gets done is that I just let the organizers know which people are there an extra day, but we don't do it until we actually arrive at the event.
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Old Crow · Joined: 10 Mar 2006 Posts: 61

Dearest Cap'n,

I looked up the merchants from whom I purchased me 9X9 A-frame and it seems they gots a smaller tent that just may make things a wee bit....less congestive. (fancy wordin' fer a swamp brigand). It appears to be a 6X8, just wide enough fer me cot and a few pieces of gear. What say ye?
Standin' by fer orders.......

McKerrin

Old Crow · Joined: 10 Mar 2006 Posts: 61

Or...encouraging suggestions.......uh...yeah.

Red-Handed Jill · Joined: 30 Aug 2005 Posts: 1960 Location: Redwood Shores

There's usually room in the Bang and Boom hut (if Mr. Smee isn't going to sleep there - let us know, Mr. Smee.) That is, if you don't mind rooming with the black powder stores...
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Poison Quill · Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2010 2:48 pm Post subject:

Had my hands full last weekend, if I'm not home too late tonight I'll try to get this done. I've got errands to run after work tonight but should have some time.
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Poison Quill · Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2010 10:05 pm Post subject:

OK here's the camp layout, it's gonna be cozy, but I got everybody in ps2

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Red-Handed Jill · Joined: 30 Aug 2005 Posts: 1960 Location: Redwood Shores

Just heard from OderlessEye on the Pyracy Pub - he's got a scheduling conflict so can't go to Ojai. I'm sure he'll be posting this here soon but wanted to give you a heads-up so the camp layout can be adjusted.
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Old Crow · Joined: 10 Mar 2006 Posts: 61

THUNDER IN HELLL!! Crew's droppin' like flys! Damn! *#2

vixious val · Joined: 22 Dec 2006 Posts: 436

Mad Sam & I are still going! :0) It will be my last "Single" weekend! and ps#8

Mad Sam's first trip to Ojai! We gots lots of celebratin' to do! ps#9