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Topic: abandoned echo sailboat?
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Handsome Bill
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posted August 29, 2005 12:31 PM
  
Last week on a wilderness canoe trip I took a day to blaze a trail to an unnamed lake that was close to my campsite. I was hoping to find it teeming with fish and it would become my personal secret getaway. some good map reading and compass work got me to the water only to see an old sailboat hull, upside down about 40 feet from water's edge. There was no sign of anyone being there for a long time, maybe a couple of years. The boat was quite dirty and worn. There was no keel (just the open slot in the hull for one). It said "echo" in black letters just under the gunnel near the bow. I've learned there is a class of boat called the Echo at about 12 feet long which was the length of this one. A hatch cover was found on the ground about 10 feet away - moss was grown all around it. No mast or anything else. It must have taken 4 men to lug that thing through the very rugged bush I'd just been through. If I had to guess I'd say it was at least 20 years old. Did they make them back then? The odd thing is that there didn't seem any good beaching area to get it in and and of the water. It was located on a rock outcrop surrounded by deep bushes - it would have been hard to even launch a canoe from there. Who would leave this thing on MY lake!?[This message has been edited by Handsome Bill (edited August 29, 2005).] IP: 70.48.234.142 |
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posted August 29, 2005 01:07 PM
People around here used to do things like that. They would leave old rowboats, canoes etc partially hidden or submerged at an obsecure fishing lake...or they may use it to cross a particular lake and then continue on foot.
My brother-in-law does this very thing. He stashes two sets of canoes because he has to cross two lakes to get to a wilderness type camp.
I wonder if someone uses that boat as a rowboat or canoe.IP: 142.167.226.95 |
Handsome Bill
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posted August 29, 2005 01:12 PM
Other than canoeists, hunters also use the area. It could be they carried that in. But, it's an odd choice - an aluminum craft would be more typical and useful. On the other hand, it might be stolen.IP: 70.48.234.142 |
