Fish Tugs of the Greatest Lake

NORTH CAPE

Built at LaPointe by John Peterson, the 37 ft.(approx.) fantail vessel was initially owned by Henry Johnson, Sr., Bayfield, and operated from South Twin Island. Lenus Jacobson bought the boat and Johnson's fish station at the island, and operated from there through the 1920s and until 1938, when he sold her and had a new boat built. After having various engines it had a Buick car motor when Jacobson sold the boat to Hjalmer Edwards. Edwards re-powered with a Chrysler Crown gas engine, fished with her for a few years, and sold out to Earl Russell, LaPointe. After some time the boat was hauled ashore and broken up.

Photo: NORTH CAPE at Lenus Jacobson's dock, South Twin Island, mid-1930s.