KNIFE ISLE

Knife Isle

 

KNIFE ISLE. Built at Bayfield by Frank Muhlke,in the mid 1940s, for Knife River, Minn. fisherman Laurence Bugge, the 35 ft. vessel was equipped with a Chrysler Crown gas engine. Later owned by Sivertson Fisheries, Duluth, the boat was bought by Wilfred Peterson, Bayfield, in the late 1970s. The boat was demolished circa 2002.

Photo: Knife Isle at Bayfield Fisherman's Festival, July 10, 1983.

 

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