Fish Tugs of the Greatest Lake

HUSTLER (KARI A.)

HUSTLER  42 ft. all-steel gillnet tug built by Burger Boat Co., Manitowoc, WI for Joseph Jacobi, Chicago, IL in 1938. Equipped with a 45-54 HP Kahlenberg Oil Engine. Later owned by Don & Bob Slenk, Holland, MI and later still by Jim Petersen, Muskegon, MI. Boat was repowered with a Cummins diesel and operated by an owner in Door County, Wis. for a number of years, renamed KARI A.