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Any paddlers familiar with the NE corner of Massachusetts, please let me know if there are rental shops in this area. I'll be in Andover in a couple of weeks and may get a chance to get a paddle wet. I see Plum Island on the map and the name is somehow familiar. Any information on this area is appreciated. Information on the N.H. coastline is also helpful. jerry. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
I'm not all that familiar, but I did recently paddle for a few days out of Rockport, Mass. I know there is a rental place in Essex, called Essex River Basin Adventures (or something). I saw lots of boats there, although I wasn't all that impressed with the quality of what I saw. I found the area a bit touristy and overdeveloped, but still better than my usual paddling area in Long Island Sound. We paddled out to the Dry Salvages and had a lot of fun watching the seals. Access is very limited, as is parking. It's one of those areas, like Mass has so many of, where "foreigners" do not seem all that welcome. (We were told by passersby that if it had been "in the season" we would not have been allowed to launch from the beach we launched from, although we had checked with the local police in advance (lots of busy-bodies, you know). North of there up along the coast is nice, but very developed. If I were in that area I'd consider going north or west . . . . Mark Lane writing from Rockport Maine > Any paddlers familiar with the NE corner of Massachusetts, please let me know if there are rental shops in this area. I'll be in Andover in a couple of weeks and may get a chance to get a paddle wet. > > I see Plum Island on the map and the name is somehow familiar. Any information on this area is appreciated. Information on the N.H. coastline is also helpful. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
Check out the Northeast Paddlers message board at http://www.npmb.com/home.htm Also check out Charles River Canoe & Kayak at http://www.ski-paddle.com/cano/canoe.shtml > Any paddlers familiar with the NE corner of Massachusetts, please let me know if there are rental shops in this area. I'll be in Andover in a couple of weeks and may get a chance to get a paddle wet. > > I see Plum Island on the map and the name is somehow familiar. Any information on this area is appreciated. Information on the N.H. coastline is also helpful. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Jerry Hawkins wrote: > Any paddlers familiar with the NE corner of Massachusetts, Intimately. I've been paddling that/this area for about 25 years. Ask away. > please let me know if there are rental shops in this area. I don't know of any that rent "performance" sea kayaks. ERBA, http://www.erba.com has already been mentioned. http://www.nspn.org, north shore paddlers network, is the local kayak club. It would be worth posting this question to them. Jed Lube is active with them, I would expect a few other NSPN members to be on this list. > I'll be in Andover in a couple of weeks and may get a chance to get a paddle wet. > I see Plum Island on the map and the name is somehow familiar. >From an old "trip" report: Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 09:12:00 -0400 (EDT) I paddled around Plum Island saturday. I launched at 10:30 from the sea wall (high tide was sometime after 2) Headed straight across and out the mouth. Not a stretch for the faint of heart, or slight of skill. It was in incoming current with several sections of standing waves. Probably the toughest stretch was rounding the end of the jetty. The current was coming along parallel to the beach and then taking a fairly abrupt turn to enter the river. This resulted in a brisk current plus standing waves while making a turn. Going down the front was uneventful, the refuge appears to be closed to humans. Just small flocks of terns and shore birds for the entire stretch of the refuge. As you paddle down the frontside there are 2 hills in the distance, one is the hill that Cranes castle is on the other is Hog Island in essex bay. As you get to plum island point the only one you can see is hog island, so it looks like you've got further to go than you do. After rounding the point I pulled over to stretch my legs and drain my boat (it leaks a bit) I lucked out and pulled in between 2 boats, one of which on of my buddies owned! They offered me juice boxes, soda, beer, cold cuts, chicken salad... I sucked down a couple of juice boxes and hung on with them for about a half hour. Headed up the backside was nice, slight tailwind (which had been a minor headwind going down the front) with the current. About a half mile shy of the plum island bridge I was distracted by a waterskier and his idiot friends (they didn't know how to pick up a skier and were yelling at each other) and got lost ;-) I found myself even with the end of the runway, as the river branched repeatedly and got smaller. I turned around before it was too late. While lost I watched 4 people parachute onto plum island. After finding my way back to the main channel (the fork I missed was right where I had encountered the water skiing crew) Just past Woodbridge island I saw a minimum of 25 big swirls from large fish or schools taking off as I passed by. It almost made me want to take up fishing. I landed at about 3:20. According to one of the people hanging out while I was sucking down the juice box Plum Island is 7 miles from end to end. I was awful tired, and quite slow, if that distance is accurate. +++ A couple of weeks ago I did a race from the town landing in Ipswich to Rings Island in Salisbury, paddling the length of the backside of plum island. The race was billed as 11 miles. At the finish the 2 finishing kayakers commented that the race had been harder than the prior 2 Blackburn challenges... The race announcement was "11 miles, past participants have had problems with dehydration, navigating through the marsh, and tricky currents in the Merrimack. difficult". If you are paddling the backside of plum island it's worth keeping in mind that on an incoming tide the tide flows from the south up to the Parker river, and from the north down to the parker river. A couple of years ago Clyde Sisler posted an entertaining trip report about going up one of the side channels and discovering the local mud. Which is deep and thick. Portaging across the marsh may look easy but is quite difficult... kirk *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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