Foxy Cruise Boat
The Foxy and the Foxy II were excursion boats that operated from Weirs Beach and Lakeport until the mid 1960s. In Weirs Beach, the ticket booth was located adjacent to the Half Moon Penny Arcade, as can be seen in this circa 1960 night-time photo.
Here is a very interesting brochure for the Foxy. Notice: 1) the drawing of the ticket booth, which matches well with the night-time photo; 2) the logo for Northland Skis, which were manufactured in Laconia. Northland was much better known for its snow skis than its water skis. 3) The “foxy” bathing beauty, seen waving near a beach umbrella. A similar beauty was used for the cover of the 1954 Weirs Beach Chamber of Commerce brochure. Owner and Captain Carl Wallace passed away in April 1960. His wife Amy continued the business for a few more years before selling the Foxy boats and its shorefront Lakeport property.
Here are advertisements and posters for the Foxy. The first ad announces the 1945 season. This was likely the first season for the Foxy. The larger Foxy II was probably added to the fleet in the mid 1950s. The two boats are easy to tell apart. The Foxy I had a solid, one-piece roof, while the roof of the Foxy II was seperated into two halves, with a notch cut out of the roof between the two sections.
The Foxy boat service began in 1945, but the Foxy boat itself may have been much older. This photo shows a boat named the Foxy with the original Mount Washington steamer in the background of the photo, dating the Foxy to 1939 or earlier. However, this Foxy has a steam pipe. The modern Foxy boats were diesel driven.
The postcard below was postmarked in 1910. It shows a boat called Fox that very closely resembles the Foxy in the previous photo. It seems likely that they are the same boat, with the Foxy having received some updates and a name change from the original.
Foxy I on left, Foxy II on right, seen off the public docks, early 1950s. This photo is used in one of the advertisements above.
Foxy I (left) followed by Foxy II departing the Weirs wharf.
A group aboard the Foxy poses for a photo. Owner/Captain Carl Wallace is standing on the left.
