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Old 10-27-2008, 08:26 AM   #1
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Good day all!

I need your help!

I'm writing a book about the history of the boathouses of Lake Winnipesaukee.

I've spent an awful lot of time this past summer in my 1948 CC Sportsman cruising the lake and spotting boathouses.

I'm asking for help in gathering information about your favorite boathouses and the stories behind them.

Here is a link to my photos so far:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/25518315@N07/

Please let me hear from you all!

Alan Gamble

metals@gmail.com
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Old 10-27-2008, 09:01 AM   #2
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If mine doesn't get rebuilt before too many more years, it'll be history. I guess that wasn't what you meant, though. It goes back to early 50's, I think, judging from the old boat plates in it. Just west of light 64.

I moved upshore to the property in 92, so I can't really say if it was used by early settlers or pirates or as an intimate meeting place for noteworthy historical figures. How much history does one expect from the smaller boathouses anyway?

I've often thought of turning it into a torpedo launching facility, for taking out the GFBLs that go by now and then. Imagine the cheers from the shoreline every time I bagged one! Maybe that would create history (and end mine).
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Old 10-27-2008, 12:29 PM   #3
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That post should be the first thing you "torpedo".
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Old 10-27-2008, 09:27 PM   #4
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There's a great one on Echo Point in Alton Bay that used to be part of the Fisher Estate. I know someone bought it a while back and then built a house on the lot behind it.

I remember it being yellow (like the house) and looking like it was about to fall into the cove, but the new owners really fixed it up. I have a postcard with the boathouse and the main house depicted in it. McDude posted it in the Photo Gallery:

http://www.winnipesaukee.com/photopo...php?photo=4167

It's a great boathouse, on the Peggy's Cove side of Echo Point. You can see from pretty far down in Alton Bay.

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There's a great one on Echo Point in Alton Bay that used to be part of the Fisher Estate. I know someone bought it a while back and then built a house on the lot behind it.
If you are talking about this one it can be yours for just $2.5M:
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Old 10-28-2008, 11:26 AM   #7
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Al. The Piping Rock boathouse in Winter Harbor is very old. I haven't seen that in your pictures yet. Before all the cabins were there, in the winter, all the neighborhood kids used to slide down the big hill right onto the lake. Neighborhood kids used to fish off the dock too. The upstairs is now a condo.
It seems like you are doing all boathouses, not just old ones. I also haven't seen the Marriott's which was rebuilt a few years ago, taking out one boat space and the state didn't like that and after several years of legal actions, the Marriotts were forced to put it back to it's original size.
The Brophy's (by the Marriott's) is a beautiful old boathouse too. Bill Marriott was putting gas in his boat and it exploded, catching his boathouse and the Brophy boathouse on fire. (This is not the one mentioned above which was rebuilt.)
Another one (newer) in Winter Harbor was Okun's which has now been seized by the government as he got into trouble. It was built by Bob Bridert and was very pretty, but the state said it was too tall so they made him remove the top section. That section can be seen as you ride by to the left of the house tucked in the trees. It was much prettier in it's orignal state.
There are of course, lots of others in Winter Harbor, these just have a bit of a story.
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Old 10-28-2008, 03:15 PM   #8
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There are quite a few old boathouses in Alton Bay below Sandy Point. There is 1 right across from Sandy Point on 28A which is one of the few buildings I recognize in a postcard dated 1903! Brian (of Mee-n-Mac) took a picture of this boathouse and has it on page 4 of the autumn scenes in the Gallery. It is white and has a very steep pitched roof (looks like a chalet) with an apartment on the 2nd floor. Farther down near the site of the old Oak Birch Inn there is Pleasant Point which I believe has 1896 on the building.

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Old 10-30-2008, 07:37 AM   #9
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If you are talking about this one it can be yours for just $2.5M:
Yup, that's the one I mean. Doesn't look so historic anymore, does it. I didn't know it was for sale, either.

Better let my mom know. She looooves this boathouse. Yeah, right.

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there is one ( the only one ) in Morrison cove, It is suppost to have been built in 1902. It looks it
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