Foxy Boats

[admiral goodie]

Chickie, your information is quite accurate. My father sold the dredge to Capt. Lavallee. The barge was cut into 4 sections along with all the machinery, 2000' of pipe which floated on tanks and placed on a bunch of flat cars and shipped to Lakeport and reassembled. Capt. Lavallee built the Weirs Beach with the dredge along with a few other projects. The equipment sat in disrepair for some years after that. My father bought it back from Ed; put the equipment back in shape and dredged out what is now Fays Boat Yard, Gilford Yacht Club and a few other projects. By then the state and the feds were starting to get involved with dredging operations. Life for the dredge on Lake Winnipesaukee was comming to an end. All the machinery was sold to a company on Statten Island and the barge was bought by Winnipesaukee Marine Const. in West Alton. They used it for many years but my guess is that it finaly made the burn pile. Don't know for sure. Call Patsy Scribner (the owner) 293-7768. Anything else I can help you with? Someday we got to have a long talk. We're easy to find on Mark Is. starting Memorial Day.

[Chickie]

The December 9, 1949 edition of the Laconia Evening Citizen gives a detailed account of the dredge’s move from Quincy to Lakeport. The 45 X 75 foot dredge was sawed in half and loaded onto two large trailer trucks – each section being 75' long by 22-1/2' wide. It began its journey on the morning of December 8th and arrived in Somerville that evening, where it spent the night. At dawn the next day it continued its way north, passing through several congested Massachusetts communities, and headed towards open country and the New Hampshire border. The caravan moved along Rts 28 and 3 to Concord, then Rt 4 to 106. The weather was described as “near-zero cold”. Arriving in Laconia, and with the able guidance of Chief Dunleavy and Laconia PD, it inched its way up Main Street, down Church Street to Normandin Square, where it began the final leg of its journey along Union Avenue. It had left Concord at 1:15 and arrived at the Wallace (Foxy Boats) property in late afternoon of December 9th. It was reassembled and launched into Lake Paugus on February 17, 1950. Account of the launching reported it crushed the 15-inch ice “like an egg shell”.

[VitaBene]

Originally Posted by admiral goodie

Chickie, your information is quite accurate. My father sold the dredge to Capt. Lavallee. The barge was cut into 4 sections along with all the machinery, 2000' of pipe which floated on tanks and placed on a bunch of flat cars and shipped to Lakeport and reassembled. Capt. Lavallee built the Weirs Beach with the dredge along with a few other projects. The equipment sat in disrepair for some years after that. My father bought it back from Ed; put the equipment back in shape and dredged out what is now Fays Boat Yard, Gilford Yacht Club and a few other projects. By then the state and the feds were starting to get involved with dredging operations. Life for the dredge on Lake Winnipesaukee was comming to an end. All the machinery was sold to a company on Statten Island and the barge was bought by Winnipesaukee Marine Const. in West Alton. They used it for many years but my guess is that it finaly made the burn pile. Don't know for sure. Call Patsy Scribner (the owner) 293-7768. Anything else I can help you with? Someday we got to have a long talk. We're easy to find on Mark Is. starting Memorial Day.

Are you a Goodhue? Regardless thanks for the history!