Annual Steamboat Meet 2025

thinkxingu · 09-06-2025, 11:30 AM

Today is the start of the annual steamboat meet in Lee's Mills!

Parades are on the first Sunday at 2:00 and the last Sunday at 10:00. The cove just outside Lee's Mills is a great place to anchor out and watch.

More info at the link below, and if you happen to float to the end of Hanson Cove and see a rotund midaged suburban father of two sitting on a chair on the lawn reading, wave!

https://weirsbeach.com/reasons-to-vi...teamboat-meet/

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Grant · 09-08-2025, 11:19 AM

Sorry that this is the first time we've missed it in the last 12 years or so. Always a good time.

pondguy · 09-08-2025, 12:54 PM

I went there this morning just got back home a lot of boats being launched as well as going in and out of the cove. I just sat on a rock and took it all in on this beautiful morning.

Thanks for the heads up Think! I should have taken some pictures but getting them from my flip phone to my laptop is above my pay grade.

mofn · 09-08-2025, 02:17 PM

If the lake gets any lower will they drag them like they did the steam boat in the movie the African Queen? LOL

webmaster · 09-08-2025, 02:22 PM

For anyone who hasn't seen them, here's a series of videos I made in 2010:

LIforrelaxin · 09-08-2025, 02:25 PM

The good news is most of those steamboats don't draft all that much water, so I don't think this years low lake level will be a big deal.... unless it starts to affect the usability of the ramp at Lees Mills..... Never having used it I am not sure what it is really like....

It is always a good time, to go to the meet and look around..... I have always enjoyed a few years, going up and watching the parade by boat....

09-06-2025, 11:30 AM	#1
thinkxingu Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2014 Posts: 6,433 Thanks: 1,182 Thanked 2,136 Times in 1,324 Posts	Annual Steamboat Meet 2025 Today is the start of the annual steamboat meet in Lee's Mills! Parades are on the first Sunday at 2:00 and the last Sunday at 10:00. The cove just outside Lee's Mills is a great place to anchor out and watch. More info at the link below, and if you happen to float to the end of Hanson Cove and see a rotund midaged suburban father of two sitting on a chair on the lawn reading, wave! https://weirsbeach.com/reasons-to-vi...teamboat-meet/ Sent from my SM-S931U using Tapatalk

09-08-2025, 11:19 AM	#2
Grant Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Pennsyltuckey, Tuftonboro, Moultonborough Posts: 1,505 Thanks: 385 Thanked 232 Times in 126 Posts	Sorry that this is the first time we've missed it in the last 12 years or so. Always a good time. __________________ "When I die, please don't let my wife sell my dive gear for what I told her I paid for it."

09-08-2025, 12:54 PM	#3
pondguy Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 292 Thanks: 598 Thanked 213 Times in 135 Posts	I went there this morning just got back home a lot of boats being launched as well as going in and out of the cove. I just sat on a rock and took it all in on this beautiful morning. Thanks for the heads up Think! I should have taken some pictures but getting them from my flip phone to my laptop is above my pay grade. Last edited by pondguy; 09-08-2025 at 02:09 PM.

09-08-2025, 02:25 PM	#6
LIforrelaxin Senior Member Join Date: May 2006 Location: Texas, Lake Ray Hubbard and NH, Long Island Winnipesaukee Posts: 2,919 Thanks: 1,050 Thanked 900 Times in 530 Posts	The good news is most of those steamboats don't draft all that much water, so I don't think this years low lake level will be a big deal.... unless it starts to affect the usability of the ramp at Lees Mills..... Never having used it I am not sure what it is really like.... It is always a good time, to go to the meet and look around..... I have always enjoyed a few years, going up and watching the parade by boat.... __________________ Life is about how much time you can spend relaxing... I do it on an island that isn't really an island.....

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