Road Trip to RI

[ddeaton]

I just got back from the best weekend short trip to Rhode Island. We hit the Catboat Association meeting, IRYS, Beetle factory, Kirby Paints, and Mystic.
I have over 200 pics of the Concord and the boneyard at IRYS, the 28' Henley catboat at Beetle, and many more of all flavors of sailing craft. I am out of town working now, but will post pics when I return home if anyone is interested. I would like to thank all the above mentioned, if any of them read this post, as they were very open and helpful with all my dumb questions and took time out to tour us around.

[Meerkat]

Did you have an opportunity to meet up with Bruce Hooke? smile.gif

[Bruce Hooke]

Nope.

But I'm glad to hear that you enjoyed it down here!

[ddeaton]

We are ready to move to the east coast. We have worked our way down from Maine to CT on weekend trips and dont want to stop. Bruce, which location should I have met you at? I am gathering resources for a catboat build, after I get my ply boats finished. The 28 footer at Beetle is awesome. We have to come back soon, as we didnt have time to go see the original cat Sarah, which isnt too far from Beetle.

[rbgarr]

Would be interested to see pics of the 28' Hanley. She's being built for my brother's neighbor on Cape Cod.

[ddeaton]

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid201/p5a853217698bd94294ee6d7327a1a708/f0269ac7.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid201/p19df4733624d7969ecafcb7a10a0b81a/f0269a93.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid201/p19df4733624d7969ecafcb7a10a0b81a/f0269a93.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid201/p6e2e2a601add114c0ba451b18e791655/f0269a3a.jpg
More pics are on the Beeltle web site. Awesome boat!