Message-Id: <ab936ba100021004faba@[132.177.128.6]>
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 1995 12:39:21 -0500
To: baidarka@imagelan.com
From: prl@hopper.unh.edu (paul labrie)
Subject: Re: late announcement
OOPS!!
>> are allowed) (take 295 north from rt95. Look for the Commercial Street exit
>> and start asking
>
>Commercial street exit? What commercial street exit. The start asking
>was the key part of the directions ;-) The first person I asked knew
>where the show was and he highly recommended it.
As I was approaching Portland on 295, to my chagrin I saw an exit
which read "Waterfront" or something similar. When I was a kid and hung
around Portland a lot (I went to high school there) this was always known
as Commercial Street -- I hope Kirk was the only one who was lead astray
(next year I'll give the LORAN coordinates...)
>
>> Best way to sum up the Maine Boatbuilders' Show is to say that this
>> is the one show I can think of where you might see a baidarka... I'm going
>> this afternoon!
>
>There were 2 baidarkas in the parking lot on saturday. They were both
>on the roof of a vehicle from Danvers Massachusetts. There is a guy
>in Danvers who builds and sells Bruce Lemon designed boats. Both boats
>were wood frame singles with the upswept lower jaw bifurcated bow.
>One boat had the skin on it the other was just the frame.
I wish I had gone on Saturday -- the baidarkas weren't there on
Friday.
I managed to escape the show without spending too much money at the brass
table...& I confessed I lingered too long admiring the Buzzard's Bay 25...
- paul -
p.s. while on the paddle thread, I would mention that I stopped by the
Alden Ocean Shell booth. They offered oars which were unique, to me at
least. The oars had rather large blades (ala George's pizza) which were
shaped like triangles! They were touted as very high performance oars. I
will dig out the brochure tonight and see if I can describe these a bit
better tomorrow.
paul r. labrie paul.r.labrie@unh.edu
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