A Day Trip To "Newport" And The Antique Boat Show

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Interesting lead in with that glacial geography MTC. You should write for National Geographic.

Boats are cool. If you like Bikes and Cars, then boats may be the next progression, especially if you like water and live near the Great Lakes. Boat loads (sorry) of them are here in Peshtigo Wisconsin, which also had a fire in October of 1871 (same day as the Chicago fire) but killing @2500 people). Peshtigo was the home of Thompson Boats. They made wooden pleasure craft (inboard and outboard) from 1918 to about 1960 and you see quite a few of them in the Marinette area still. I'd be surprised if there weren't any at the Geneva show. Carver and Cruisers are also manufactured nearby as well as the big Littoral Combat Ships at Marinette Marine corp. Lots of builders still in Wisconsin.

There were quite a number of Thompsons at the show, their white lapstrake hulls shining in stark contrast to the smooth dark mahogany finishes on the Chris-Crafts and Hacker-Crafts.