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Just east of the dock featured a few days ago here is another dock.
Eleanor B might be among the “newest” of the fish tugs I’ve seen, 1950. Click here for photos of her christening at Peterson Brothers in Sturgeon Bay and more.
In the same fleet colors–I think–and two years older than Eleanor B is Twin Sisters, a trap net boat. If my info is correct, she was once known as Sue Carol.
Kristin Beth . . .I can’t find any info about her. I’m wondering if the shelter forward is original or a repurposed portion of an old boat.
Crews were mostly working on the three boats above, even though I caught these photos without them. Obviously, no one earns money when the boat’s at the dock. There were boats–fish tugs–moving toward and away from the docks, like this unidentified one, and
this one, Gary. If I may borrow from “the fish tug” site, here’s their info on all the modifications done to Gary: “GARY 247461 .Built by Burger Boat Co. in 1945, for William Yauger, Jr., Algoma, Wis. The 40 ft. x 11 ft. steel hulled fish tug was equipped with a 45-54 hp. Kahlenberg oil engine. The cabin was of wood, over steel frames, with pilot house mid-ship. Yauger was owner until 1951, when she was sold to Canadian owners, and renamed BARRY MCKAY. In 1962 the boat came back to the U.S., retained her original name, and was owned by William Heward, Rogers City, Mich., until 1969. Bought by Gilmore Peterson, Bayfield, the Kahlenberg was removed, and a Cummins diesel installed. The wood cabin was replaced with steel, and the pilot house moved to the stern. Gilmore sold the boat to his nephew, Michael Peterson, who still has ownership.”
Boats came and went at the dock. An arrival was Thomas C. Mullen, a 1946 Burger built boat. Click on the link in the previous sentence for info on all her modifications since 1946. I may have mentioned this before, but Burger–still in Manitowoc–has built many vessels since 1863.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who plans many more posts on fish tugs and is fully to blame for any errors in info here.
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