Harbour Belle photos

Someone told me there were pictures of the old Harbour Belle on this site, but I can't seem to find them, any ideas where they may have gone, not with the boat one would hope....

Well, we did ... but I'm not sure where they went. I'll dig them up and make sure they get posted.

Thank You, I'm sure its amazing the number of pictures of the park there are, but without the boats, from the old steamers and the "G.A. Boeckling" and the speed boats, to the steel fleet of 65 footers and the ill-fated "Harbour Belle", the boats have been a serious part of Cedar Point history. I'm sure the "Belle" would still be running had it not been for some problems with the people who operated it making it expensive. Running aground regularly and breaking off the new radar and mis judging windage will do that though. The park still needs a boat ride/ferry operation.

Was that the boat that is now/was being used as a floating storage out of state?

They used to give rides around the park for about $7 if I am remembering it right. We went out during the big power outage. If my info is correct I think they wanted to use that boat to shuttle guests from Castaway to the park. They could not because the water is too shallow in that section.

Wow, when did the boat give rides? I have never seen it out there by the park. I wonder why they stopped operating it?

^ neat you went during the outage..........:)

I think Crazy Horse is thinking about the old steamer "G.A. Boeckling". It ran from the city to the park and back for a number of years, was sold off and sent to Sturgeon Bay Wis. to serve as a floating warehouse at Petersen Builders. Years later a group "rescued" it for historic reasons, only to fall to mismanagement and lose the boat to a fire while moored in Toledo, Ohio Damn shame too, was a nice boat. I remember hearing upon its return, officials from the park wanted to take care of it, but that group had better ideas, like taking it to the islands!!! It had never been there. They obviously didn't work and should have let the park work with them.

The "Harbour Belle" took narrated cruises on Sandusky Bay and if the weather was OK, out onto the lake just off the park for a view from both sides. It only ran about two years before they laid her up again and sold it. Heard it went to "foggy bottom", Washington DC and had issues with money and such and didn't start cruising there. It was a nice boat, a Skipperliner built in Wisconsin I think, though not positive. Was originally for the run back to the hotel in the harbor where the wterpark is now on Cleveland Road and Causeway Drive. Her hull was shallow enough, but her props and rudders were not, and the operators kept forgetting about a sand bar just outside the back bay between the bridge and the park. The repairs made her expensive to operate.

No.. He's talking about the Harbour Belle, It did a tour of the park/Sandusky Bay and the Islands. Food and drink served on board with an pretty cool info track that would play as you passed various items of interest. Went on it once. It was actually pretty nice.