Online Maps and Photos

[CapnK]

Rhetorical question begs asking:

IF you caught a fish that BIG, and IF you were the size of the old boy on the left (the one you can barely see behind the fish, struggling to hold up his half o' the fish...), would you be standing around in the water?

Not I, says I.

Gar blimey, that's a big old guppy there. It musta been eatin' lotsa grits from a young age. Or maybe thats a nuclear reactor cooling pond.

Mike G - An M-16 & South Cackalacky? Was you down at Parris, or up near Columbia? Thx for your Service, if so. (PS - Next time, use real bullets not blanks, it won't take 16 rounds. They teach that in elementary school here. )

[Mike Goodwin]

I were crawling in the sand near Columbia , if SC ever needed an enema that's where..... well you know .
They wouldn't give us real bullets , or nobody woulda made it to Nam . We'ed all be missing a big toe .

[commanderpete]

Some nice photos on this site.

http://www.skypic.com/index.html

Montauk Lighthouse, built in 1796

[c_amos]

I wonder if this is the old Pearson factory. Burnside St., Bristol, Rhode Island.

Somebody's still building boats there.

This might be the answer to mystery....

Fresh off of the sailnet 'Pearson' list;

Pearson looks to be back in the sailboat building business according to the
March issue of Blue Water Sailing.

The US  Naval Academy has ordered twenty four Navy 44's from the Pearson
Composites, LLC  Warren, RI facility.  Designed by David Pedrick, Pearson is
quoted in that magazine as building the boats to "2.7 times ABS
specifications.  It's a brick."  Delivery starts this summer.  Commercial
versions will be available after the Navy order is filled.

Maybe they are being stored at the old factory?

[ebb]

Hey, look,
that's Wally Pearson down there and
next to him son Joey picking his nose agin!

[commanderpete]

That could be Proper Yachts, builders of the Alerions. They have an address on Burnside St. in Bristol, and an address in Maine.

http://www.yachtworld.com/properyachts/

Those two boats look huge. Might be brokerage. I think the photo was taken in 2002.

I believe Pearson started building boats at the old Herreshoff Yard in Bristol.

Sometime in the '60s they opened a new factory in Portsmouth.

My builder's plate says Bristol, but who knows?