Stop by Cape Ann Smallcraft(N.E.Smallcraft) on rte 1. The owner(Joel) is quite knowledgeable and colorfull. Good selection of new and used kayaks and sailboats. If you are into sailboats we have a great museum in Newport R.I. wilth America's Cup yachts on display.Have fun Mark. Guinness drinkin, shillelagh toten... SEAN *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
> Stop by Cape Ann Smallcraft(N.E.Smallcraft) on rte 1. The owner(Joel) is > quite knowledgeable and colorfull. Good selection of new and used kayaks > and sailboats. If you are into sailboats we have a great museum in > Newport R.I. wilth America's Cup yachts on display.Have fun Mark. Thanks for the tip. What town is NE Small Craft in? As for the Newport museums, yes, they are really a lot of fun. Although I enjoy the one out on the peninsula in Newport itself, the Herreshoff Museum (which I believe is in Bristol) is even more interesting. Newport is a great area to visit, although IMO the town made some really bad planning errors some years ago and the whole area has gone down hill since then. But that's a subject for another day. 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. Anyway, thanks again, and I'll definitely stop in that store, if I can find it. Mark *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
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/ ***************************************************************************
On Fri, 19 May 2000, Henry Donnelly wrote: > Stop by Cape Ann Smallcraft(N.E.Smallcraft) on rte 1. The shop is just north of route 133 in Rowley Mass, which is a couple towns north of Cape Ann (depending on who is defining what towns are in Cape Ann). While there don't miss stopping across the street at Kathy's Country Kitchen. Amazing breakfasts, fresh baked bread and marvelous scones - mmmm, scones. > The owner(Joel) is > quite knowledgeable and colorfull. Good selection of new and used kayaks > and sailboats. My only gripe with that shop is there are no prices on any of the boats. Maybe that's a good thing for those into haggling. On the positive side it's one of the few shops, that I know of, that takes trade ins. There seem to be at least a dozen used boats each time I stop in. If anyone has been in lately did they get the new Walden Paddler outrigger canoes? Joel said he was ordering a fair number of them(30?) for this season. 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/ ***************************************************************************
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