kurt Posted August 19, 2016 Report Share Posted August 19, 2016 Any of you upstate guys ever been out to Boldt Castle in the 1000 Islands? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Raymond Posted August 20, 2016 Report Share Posted August 20, 2016 Last week. Its a cool building. If you go take the boat house tour too. My kids weren't too impressed with my inspetor notes. Pisspots. Just try to ignor all the portland mortar the "artisans" are smearing all over it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Raymond Posted August 20, 2016 Report Share Posted August 20, 2016 I'd post some pics but they are all on my phone and too large to upload. The antique boat museum in Clayton is 10 miles from Alex Bay and welm worth the trip too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Booth Posted August 20, 2016 Report Share Posted August 20, 2016 .........it's been 50 years since I've visited the castle, but as Tom said, the boat museum is well worth the trip to Clayton - I try to get there every few years......Greg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurt Posted August 20, 2016 Author Report Share Posted August 20, 2016 I was vaguely aware that there was something like that up there, then stumbled on it when I was looking at some stuff about the Great Lakes Basin. I think I gotta check it out. Interesting story, sad, but interesting. The boathouse looks amazing. Are there any boats in it...(I hope)? I used to do boat shows up east of there with the canoe and Whitehall, but it's been about 30 years since I've made it up there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Raymond Posted August 21, 2016 Report Share Posted August 21, 2016 The boathouse has several SLR skiffs, a steam launch, an unusually sterned pick nick, a racer, and a totally awesome 1948 Hacker that is registered, some poor sap gets paid to drive it. The museum has a runabout building with two boats you can board and explore, the Elco with fore and aft staterooms was pretty cool. There is also a small craft building, a repair shop, and a hydroplane building. There are several craft in the water, skiffs to paddle if the water isn't too rough, and Boldt's houseboat La Duchesne. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurt Posted August 21, 2016 Author Report Share Posted August 21, 2016 Those are boats. Serious boats. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chad Fabry Posted August 22, 2016 Report Share Posted August 22, 2016 Just there yesterday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurt Posted August 22, 2016 Author Report Share Posted August 22, 2016 The place looks amazingly cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gtblum Posted August 22, 2016 Report Share Posted August 22, 2016 Last time I was there, it was a graffiti filled shell. Nice they were able to scrape up the loot to try to finish it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurt Posted August 22, 2016 Author Report Share Posted August 22, 2016 I read that it was in pretty bad shape....never actually even finished because the guy died before completion. It just sat there for decades, or something like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gtblum Posted August 22, 2016 Report Share Posted August 22, 2016 Here's you story. Well, their story. http://www.boldtcastle.com/visitorinfo/about Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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