Forum: Diving Winnipesaukee
03-20-2023, 10:44 AM
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Forum: History
02-05-2023, 04:42 PM
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Replies: 1
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Looking for old Moultonboro pictures
This winter's project is a photo history of Moultonborough to be published next fall in the "Images of America" series, including time period late 1800s to about 1960. Focusing on the built...
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Forum: Diving Winnipesaukee
10-30-2022, 08:01 PM
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Replies: 17
Views: 17,150
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Forum: Diving Winnipesaukee
10-30-2022, 07:58 PM
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Replies: 17
Views: 17,150
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Forum: Home, Cottage or Land Maintenance
05-26-2021, 09:41 AM
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Replies: 13
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Insurance for island properties
Having trouble getting homeowners/fire insurance for an island property, they say that in case of fire it would be a total loss, therefore won't issue a fire policy. There are hundreds of cottages...
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Forum: History
12-20-2020, 10:32 AM
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Replies: 16
Views: 10,300
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Forum: History
04-09-2020, 10:55 AM
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Replies: 2
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Old film of Winnipesaukee
Question for the group: I found some old home movies from the 20s and 30s at the dump-brought them home because Moultonborough and Wolfeboro were mentioned on the labels on the film cans. I think...
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Forum: History
02-21-2020, 08:54 AM
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Replies: 192
Views: 179,728
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Forum: History
01-26-2020, 10:27 AM
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Replies: 16
Views: 10,300
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Forum: History
01-20-2020, 04:50 PM
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Replies: 16
Views: 10,300
And you thought flying at the Weirs was only in...
And you thought flying at the Weirs was only in the summertime! Here we see the "Staggerwing" Beechcraft parked on the ice near the summertime location of the seaplane base. I think winter of 1936-7...
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Forum: History
01-13-2020, 08:44 AM
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Replies: 56
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Forum: History
01-06-2020, 08:08 AM
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Replies: 56
Views: 78,025
Excellent news, please let us all know when...
Excellent news, please let us all know when you're planning the fly-by so we can see it in person! If I didn't already share my book about the Weirs seaplane base with you I will be happy to send you...
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Forum: History
12-30-2019, 09:17 AM
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Replies: 48
Views: 70,083
And just for fun, here's a nice view of the old...
And just for fun, here's a nice view of the old "Mount" taken from one of the seaplanes that was based at the Weirs. Judging from the wing strut in the edge of the picture, it was the "Staggerwing"...
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Forum: History
12-30-2019, 09:11 AM
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Replies: 48
Views: 70,083
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Forum: History
12-30-2019, 09:07 AM
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Replies: 48
Views: 70,083
Cool, I've never seen any pictures of the deone...
Cool, I've never seen any pictures of the deone of the debris of the Weirs Cafe and the old "Mount" being removed after the fire. Here's one showing seaplanes with the fabric burned off the wings and...
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Forum: History
12-30-2019, 08:48 AM
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Replies: 192
Views: 179,728
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Forum: History
12-01-2019, 11:59 AM
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Replies: 16
Views: 10,300
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Forum: History
12-01-2019, 11:52 AM
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Replies: 16
Views: 10,300
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Forum: History
12-01-2019, 11:48 AM
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Replies: 16
Views: 10,300
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Forum: History
12-01-2019, 11:34 AM
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Replies: 16
Views: 10,300
The aircraft pictured on the postcard is a...
The aircraft pictured on the postcard is a Curtiss MF flying boat, F for the original model designation and M for Modified, known as a Seagull. When Bob Fogg bought it surplus in 1923 it came with a...
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Forum: History
11-29-2019, 03:54 PM
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Replies: 16
Views: 10,300
And here is the front of the postcard. 1924 was...
And here is the front of the postcard. 1924 was Bob Fogg's first full summer of flying at the Weirs. The aircraft pictured is a First World War seaplane trainer which Bob purchased as surplus in 1923...
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Forum: History
11-29-2019, 03:50 PM
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Replies: 16
Views: 10,300
Great book on Winnipesaukee history!
Not in the book-just found this on eBay a couple days ago. First I've seen of a postcard from an actual passenger of the Weirs seaplane base. To save everyone from having to read the handwriting, the...
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Forum: History
11-17-2019, 05:30 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 11,210
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Forum: History
11-16-2019, 06:03 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 11,210
The B-17 was given to the city of Laconia by...
The B-17 was given to the city of Laconia by Robert Thompson, president of Scott and Williams, and flown up from Portsmouth by Floyd Miller, formerly of the Winnipesaukee Seaplane Service and the...
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Forum: History
11-16-2019, 10:18 AM
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Replies: 16
Views: 10,300
Winnipesaukee Seaplane history!
Many readers of the Forum have enjoyed my book about the seaplane base that operated at the Weirs during the 1920s and 30s. Well, the warehouse that was selling the book online is going out of...
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