New England Mod & Meetup Thread: May 17 at Jared’s!!

Hopefully it doesn't rain today. It's misting in RI

 

Looks like we'll be good thru 2:30 then a storm might hit

 

Not raining here.

There is room at the lot on the top if the hill.

 

Nice little meet up with some tw peeps! Weather held out till about 3

Considering it's memorial day weekend I'm glad at the turn out. Next time will be bigger and looking forward to BBQ!
Nice to put some faces to names and of course see the ones I already know



Kept that one for you Chase

 

Likewise nice meeting and seeing some of y'all. Definitely get some bbq going - I'll look at some places we can do a couple hours on the water maybe an upstream downstream type of thing.

 

Looks like a good event. Next time I’ll be up for a meet and greet

 

Sorry I couldn't make it, the Corona got me.
I see someone decided to be fancy and show up in a porsche.

 

Smile and everything

Good to meet ya John, and see everyone else again.

 

Yeah, sorry about the rona man. @CTSpruceMica came in style

We'll see you for the next one!

 

Definitely up for another one at some point..had too much to do at home today

 

Available for test drives at meet-ups

 

My wife: "His name is what?"
Me: "you heard it right"

 

I thought about you guys today when I went by the drive in BBQ place in Wrentham today.

 

Sorry went camping in the Green Mountains, sad to miss a meet up. Definitely looking forward to the idea of an upstream/downstream

 

Cool beans! I - have spent no time looking yet. Gotta set a date first, if I can't make it that's fine too. I have looked in eastern MA and haven't really found much overall. There's the Saco obviously. Ipswich maybe too. Not sure if there's a lot of portages though.

 

Swift River, Nashua river are rivers that might work. Ashland reservoir is pretty centrally located with lots of parking.

No sorry, hope you had a good time and stayed away from the poison ivy

Haven't even looked at dates and just started looking at locations.

 

Double check. There was one I looked at that didn't allow outside boats only rentals managed to control invasive species. Eastern MA is kind of shenanigans. Ipswich could work there's a decent river but I don't know it.

Yeah we gotta hammer that out my summer is pretty busy.

 

Thinking 8/13 or 8/14 might be a good. Plenty of time to plan and I can do a recon to any potential spots by then to get details squared away.
I'll have at least 1 extra kayak for anyone that wants to go but doesn't have something.

 

Hot damn that weekend works for me!

I have several decent spots down here but none are floats and they're all kinda "meh". Two are pretty cool but the rest are meh - and for being out of the wah for everyone else not really worth it.

 

I don’t know specifically about Ashland Reservoir but Quabbin in Belchertown is one that only allows rental boats or boats specifically steam washed and tagged by an approved site prior to launch. The swift river coming off of Quabbin however does allow kayaks and canoes.