36th ANNUAL – JUNE 19-26, 2021
Food Vendors that are planning to be at the 2021 JRBF: CARTERSVILLE: Big B’s Menu:Dinner: Sandwiches: Philly Cheese Steak (meat) Summer Vegetable Sub (vegetarian) Jalapeños popper grilled cheese (vegetarian) Cuban sandwich (meat) Sides: Cucumber salad Watermelon salad Seasoned French fries Chips BREAKFAST!!!!!! Mixed sandwiches Fresh fruit Drinks, bottled water ******NO COFFEE******** MAIDEN’S LANDING: Legendary Provisions…
History of the James River Batteau Festival, Vol. 1, 1986-2020, the first 35 years is the newest book being sponsored by Bill Trout. Holt Messerly is gathering old photos, stories, historical events and information from the JRBF’s first 35 years. This year, 2021 and probably into 2022, the goal is to visit many of the…
https://vacanals.org/shop/?group_id=5 Dear JRBF Partipants, It’s that time of year again, preparing for the JRBF by paying camping fees and dues. The VC&NS online store has camping fees, dues and donations available. Camping fees online can be purchased for daily, or weekly. Donations can be made at $1 each or $100 each as there are two…
JRBF, It’s hard to believe we are only a little more than 6 weeks away from the 2021 Batteau Festival! I wanted to send out some information about this year’s float and cleanups. Additionally, in lieu of our traditional spring meeting we will be flipping our new boat on Sunday, 5/16 at 1:00 in…
Thank you to Curtis Daily for sending in photos he took of the batteau Maple Run departing the private landing near Lynchburg on Saturday, June 27th, 2020. The water looks like it was clearing up in these photos. Good to see the Maple Run going on down the river to destinations to be determined. By…
Bill Trout made it to Maiden’s landing just fine and set up his table with a few things to show. There were a lot of tubers and various other plastic boaters on this nice sunny Saturday! Walking up the bank waiting for batteaux to arrive, I came upon Diane Easley sitting at a small table…
With my dog Jake resting his nose on the nice cool air in the truck the whole way to Cartersville, we arrived just in time to for me to jump out with the camera and take a group shot! I brought Bill Trout a biscuit for breakfast and left Jake in the truck a while…
Arriving at Scottsville and going over the railroad tracks towards the boat ramp I quickly saw what a mess things were down there with lots of mud from the recent high water. I took a photo of the river level lines with the river in the background and decided an indoor place to eat was…