This week guests of the Painted Turtle Guesthouse will once again venture down to Maffeo-Sutton Park for a weekend of fun and excitement. The International World Championship Bathtub Race and Nanaimo Marine Festival Events kicks off Thursdays and promises to offer a little bit for everyone. With food fairs, hours and hours of live music, fireworks and the GREAT race, this year's list of events is long. Make sure you head down early; you'll want plenty of time to take it all in. Thursday

• 11:00 - 8:00PM Marine Festival Food Fare, Displays, Food Booths Harbour side Play dock & Kiddies Karnival Swy-a-lana Lagoon
• 11:00 AM Display & Information booths, Canadian Forces Recruiting booths, Torpedo Recovery Team from Nanoose plus much more...
• 3:00 PM Noon Opening of Marine Festival Entertainment Stage Maffeo Sutton Park All varieties of music all day

Friday

• 11:00 AM Marine Festival Food Fare, Displays, Food Booths Harbour side Play lot & Kiddies Karnival Swy-a-lana Lagoon
• 12:00 Noon Opening of Marine Festival Entertainment Stage Maffeo Sutton Park All varieties of music all day

Saturday

• 8:30 AM Line up for Sail past on Wheels Fun Parade on Selby Street
• 10:00 AM Downtown Nanaimo "Farmers Market" Pioneer Waterfront
• 10:30 AM Start of Sail past on Wheels Fun Parade. This years salute and theme is "Canadian Coast Guard Auxiliary" Honorary Parade Marshall Philip Dickinson, 2008 Englefield Bathtub Derby Winner from Auckland, New Zealand NOTE: Dispersal on Comox Rd. by Foundry Pub
• 11:00 AM  - 4:00PM Nanaimo Yacht Club OPEN HOUSE Information displays 400 Newcastle Avenue
• 11:00 AM Marine Festival Food Fare, Displays, Food Booths Harbour side Play lot & Kiddies Karnival Swy-a-lana Lagoon
• 12:00 Noon Opening of Marine Festival Entertainment Stage Maffeo Sutton Park All varieties of music all day
• 10:00 PM  QUALITY FOODS "Festival of Lights & Music" fireworks display sponsored by your Quality Foods stores and the LNBS and simulcast on CKWV 102.3 The WAVE (listen on your FM radio) "Vancouver Island's Biggest Ever Fireworks Show"

Sunday

• 10:00 AM 442 Transport & Rescue Squadron, Comox. Rescue demonstration Cormorant Helicopter Nanaimo harbour
• 10:30 AM  Clearing of harbour for "Great Race" START
• 10:59:30  - 30 second count down from START CONTROL (land based World Largest Bathtub)
• 11:00 AM RACE START Maffeo-Sutton Park Swy-a-lana Park and Lagoon & Spirit Square
• Firing of the 5th Field Battery Howitzer as well as sound shell for the START of the 42nd annual "Great" INTERNATIONAL WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP BATHTUB RACE.
• RACE FINISH - Departure Bay Beach Finish Line Kinsmen Park Bathtubs begin arriving at "FINISH LINE & BEACH PARTY"
• Broadcast by CKWV 102.3 FM the WAVE & CHWF 106.9 FM The WOLF
• 2:00 PM BATHTUB RACE TROPHY presentations at FINISH LINE Trophies sponsored by various Nanaimo businesses & clubs

Wow, what a schedule of events.  So come down to the park and join those staying at the Painted Turtle Guesthouse and partake in some or all of these great events.