Fish Tugs of the Greatest Lake

WILLIAM G.

Built by Burger Boat Co. in 1948 for E.W. Bodin Son, Bayfield, WI. The 42 ft. x 12 ft. all steel vesssel was equipped with a 45-54 Kahlenberg oil engine and was possibly the only 42 ft. Burger boat to be built entirely of one-quarter inch steel. In the spring of 1986 William Bodin sold the boat to Clayton Furness, Michigan City, IN. In 1997 Furness sold her to Eric Nelson, Sheboygan, WI. The original Kahlenberg engine is still in the boat.

Photo: WILLIAM G., July 1981.