This is a square stern version with a rear mounted inboard engine. Based on the tail plume off the stern of the boat this may in fact be an early prototype jet version.Notice the cowling covering the engine and the gauges on the front side of the cowling as well as the unique right side mounted steering wheel. The passenger sitting on the engine cowling is unidentified but is believed to be one of the employees from the boat works.
John Cockburn, the present owner-craftsman also builds a modified version of the pointer, a square-stern type, for pleasure boaters. Early in 1962, he fitted this model with a jet-propelled inboard engine which makes 30 miles per hour with a heavy load. The protoype operated successfully and seemed likely to revolutionize the pointer's use in summer freighting operations.
Officers of the Department of Lands and Forests observed trials of the new jet-pointer and reported favourably on its speed and capacity and the jet motor's built in hose couplings which allow it to double as a fire pump. This presents the prospect of a new development in forest protection.
"The Pointer Boat"
Ontario Department of Lands and Forests
1963
Pictures by Montaigne of Pembroke Sept 6, 1955
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