On Fri, 19 May 2000, Sailboat Restorations, Inc. wrote: > Thanks for the tip. What town is NE Small Craft in? Rowley Mass, on route 1 just north of route 133. > BTW, do they still have the Sunday picnics at Castle Hill? > They used to have jazz bands on the lawn. I remember watching the J-Boats > race from there 10 or 12 years ago. Castle Hill is owned by the Trustees of Reservations there's an event schedule at http://www.thetrustees.org The picnic concerts are scheduled for thursday nights. For car buffs there's a concours auto show there in the summer that is supposed to be spectacular. If you make it to Castle Hill, stand on the steps and look down the grand allee, on a clear day you'll find the Isle of Shoals framed in the trees as you look down the lawn. There's a nice beach in front of Castle hill. There's also a sandbar that the local boaters picnic on about 150 yards offshore, the sandbar is under water at high tide. To get there you can launch in Ipswich, the public landing charges, I still hold a grudge for being charged something like $5 a kayak and being told I could only launch from the boat ramp, not from the dock. Because the "dock" was for loading and unloading, they wouldn't let me carry the boats down onto the dock to launch.... There's a small canoe/kayak "launch" site hidden across the way that I can give directions to if anyone wants to contact me directly, it's free and muddy at lower tides. From either launch it's a mile or two to the beach. It's a paddle my parents regularly did with 2 kids in the canoe - easy enough for beginners. kirk *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Fri May 19 2000 - 08:12:45 PDT
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