The New Fleet on the Water

[BlueTail]

Hello folks,

 

Let me introduce you to the fleet:  

 

The Blue Tail Fly is a 1964 Starcraft Holiday 16 footer sailing out of Wellesley Island in the Thousand Islands. 

 

She's not technically from Lake Ontario, but I could take her up there if its calm.   She's light and the bluff bow doesn't take the big waves well.  But for banging around the river in the summer, I couldn't want a better boat.

 

 

The Rain Gauge is a 1965 Starcraft 14 foot boat pushed by a 6hp 1992? Evinrude.  This boat is the flagship of the fleet.  She stays in all year round.  Once the ice is solid at the dock, we pop her out and row around.

 

The rest of the fleet is made up of non-powered boats.

There is an aluminum 18' princecraft canoe.  Her 4 foot beam keeps her stable and fast and great to fish from.  We had this boat out with five people in white caps and just cut through the chop like the USS Missouri.

There is an aluminum 16' Springbok canoe that is currently banging around down river in Montreal.  Another excellent boat.

 

You can tell I'm a big fan of Aluminum.  I'm a mechanical engineer and know materials.  I would never buy a boat made from a sponge (fiberglass).

 

Finally, there are two plastic kayaks. 

 

And we used to have a 1968 Jet 14 sailboat made from mahogany.  She  was fast and furious.  The center board was 5 feet long and made of iron.  But I whooped this boat on a few occasions and she never could heal the crack in the centerboard trunk.  This boat was scuttled by my father a few years ago.  The mast and boom and sails are waiting for me to build an ice boat.

 

 

Pictures are attached.  The Blue Tail Fly no longer has that Merc500 because I stripped the sparkplug hole.  We put a new 40 hp Yamaha on it.  Great idea.  That Merc500 pushed like a bull, but drank like a fish.

 

 

The next addition to the fleet will be an outboard Starchief or Islander.  Something that I can put a hardtop on and fish the cold fall.  I got that Muskie Fever!!!!

 

 

 

Ottoleo

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