Miss Winnipesaukee

[Smith Point]

There were 2 Miss Winnipesaukees?
The Irwin Files - Classic Boat Footage From The late 1940's - 1950's - YouTube
about 1/2 way through there is a drag race with 2 miss Winnipesaukees.

The Irwin Files - Classic Boat Footage From The late 1940's - 1950's - YouTube
cut and copy.

try this one. The Irwin Files - Classic Boat Footage From The late 1940 ...

[Top-Water]

Are you reffering to these videos that I posted a while back from this thread
https://www.winnipesaukee.com/forums...ad.php?t=21020


They had more than one, possibly more than two or three when the speedboat rides where popular. Someone on the forum will know how many they had. I'm not really sure of an exact number.

Originally Posted by Top-Water

Some more videos, not sure if these have been posted before

From Woody Boater

Part 1
The Irwin Files - Classic Boat Footage From The late 1940's - 1950's
Rare footage of Irwin Marine from the 1940's to the 1950's provided by Jim and Jack Irwin, many classic Chris Crafts



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3gWUSrIO6k

Part 2
Irwin Files Part 2 Classic boats, Chris Crafts
More vintage boat footage from the 1940's and 1950's from Irwin Marine



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrKIAHzvBAE

Very interesting how they used the railroad back then to deliver these large heavy cruisers. Looks like but not show in (as a complete part of the film) that they came right off the flatbed car onto a raceway right into the water.

[ursa minor]

Thanks for the cool videos, that's fun to see. There's at least one still on the lake, I believe it lives in the big boathouse on Pick Point in Tuftonborough.

[garysanfran]

I encountered one of them while going under the bridge connecting Governor's Island... Driven by a white haired gentleman who waved.

Nostalgia brought me back to when I was 11 and, during a visit to The Weirs, my father promised me a ride on one. Never got the chance. But he soon bought a 19' Slickcraft and Miss (Ms.?) Winni was a thing of the past.

[Top-Water]

More info in this thread from a few years ago.

https://www.winnipesaukee.com/forums...ad.php?t=14234

[Descant]

Originally Posted by Top-Water

They had more than one, possibly more than two or three when the speedboat rides where popular. Someone on the forum will know how many they had. I'm not really sure of an exact number.

I drove the Winni's for a couple of summers. We had two in the water and a third in storage. I think I recall correctly that the sign the roof said "8 boats, no waiting" when I was a youngster.

[Top-Water]

Originally Posted by Descant

I drove the Winni's for a couple of summers. We had two in the water and a third in storage. I think I recall correctly that the sign the roof said "8 boats, no waiting" when I was a youngster.

I'm jealous, .... and they probably paid you to do this. You should have worked for free.

I have seen different info on how many boats they had, but your comment about 8 boats maybe makes this true as well. Maybe 8 boats at the water ready to take on passengers and 4 boats in for repairs and maintenance. It must have been a site to see back then if there was group of them all together.

Originally Posted by Diver1111

Here is what Jack Irwin told me:

We had a total of 12 Miss Winnis. I have one restored. There are two more on Winnipesaukee. One is a rebuilt and the other is a patched up boat that I gave to a friend and I was surprised he was able to get it to float. The one that was rebuilt is the one that blew up in Weirs Bay about 1945. Twenty years ago a guy brought it up. It had burned to the waterline before it sank. A guy with a lot of money had it rebuilt. It must have cost $150K. The motor was taken out by another guy. It was totally rusted out. It was an A120 250HP Chris-Craft. A new motor was put in the rebuilt.