While cleaning out some old boxes of stuff I found an interesting "time capsule" from 1985. It was an Oct. 1985 issue of "Messing about in boats" with an old Dirigo17 brochure in it. In the mag. was an add for "Salt Marsh Sea Kayak Supply Co.". Thats were I bought my first D17 in 85'. Don Forrest is the guys name and when I called the number I found it was no longer in service. He has to be around 60/70 yrs. old now.
I remember he was an iron-worker living in the Dartmouth, Mass. area. It would have been cool to talk to him about D17s. Oh well.

bilnik