Yo bilnik, next time you contact Don Forrest, you could ask him what he knows about to whom Elliott Speer and Peter Chase sold the Dirigo business and molds out in the midwest. Messing About in Boats is/was a great mag. They published an article I wrote about circling Cape May NJ via Delaware Bay, the ocean, and the Cape May canal, in March 1986 (great trip!). I also bought my D17 in 1985, a demo boat from a small shop in central NJ called Boats and Paddles, as they were in the process of going bankrupt.

Carl