Finer Points About Pointers
According to Camp Tamakwa's website Cockburn Pointer boats propel people with purpose, positive performance and practicality. They carry 25 big people or 30 little people and all their gear to and fro across the lake from their water access only camp to the landing on the west side of South Tea Lake along Higway 60 in Algonquin Park.
With a wide flat shallow hull for stability, long pointy bow that noses close to rocky shorelines for boarding passengers and long hull to keep the motor far from rocks and deadheads the Pointer boat seems tailor made for an Algonquin camp that is accessible only by water.
They fondly refer to their outboard motor powered boats as the "Day-Off" boat.
Their first Cockburn pointers were bought second hand by "Unca" Lou Handler starting in 1950 with a 20 ft. tiller driven outboard model. Since then, there have been many versions:
Black 36 Ft. inboard named "Jennifer Jo II"
Red 36 Ft. outboard named "Cheryl" later painted yellow and renamed "Daisy"
Yellow 36 ft. outboard named "Daisy II" built in 1968 by Cockburn & Sons
Green trimmed cedar named "Daisy III" now known as "Cowan" built in 1981 by Cowan Brothers
Burgundy now brown trimmed cedar named "Unca" built in 1982 by Cowan Brothers
