“Messin’ About In Canoes”: An informal BYOC* get together to paddle, share stories and just enjoy being on the water with other canoeists.
*Bring your own canoe (paddles, gear, etc.)
As what we hope will be a special treat for this paddle, we’ve invited the Norumbega Chapter of the Wooden Canoe Heritage Association to join us. We’re hoping to have a number of wood and canvas classics to admire and the paddlers who love them to share their experiences with these fabulous boats. I’ll be bringing a Chestnut Canoe Company Playmate - a 14’ tandem that we have in our demo fleet at the shop.
We’ll put in at the Peabody Street Landing, off Peabody Street in Middleton. This launch is one of five maintained by the Middleton Stream Team (big thanks for all the work they do on the river!). There is a small amount of off-road parking at the launch and the street is not marked with no parking signs
We’ll paddle upriver, past Rachel’s Rest (named after Rachel Carson, author of Silent Spring). We may or may not make it all the way to Mortalo Landing, where the Ipswich passes under RT 62 (Maple St). We’ll ride the river back down to the put in. Should be a really pretty paddle.
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The Middleton Stream Team established and maintains five landings along the Ipswich and are great supporters of the Ipswich River and the Ipswich River Watershed Association.
Mortalo Landing is named in honor of Vito Mortalo. He was a Middleton contractor from Italy, an American for 45 years and a stone lover who pooh-poohed short lived wooden stairways and did great stone installations at the Peabody, Mortalo and Farnsworth landings at very little cost to the town
Note: This is not an “official” event - just folks getting together to paddle at the same time in the same place.
