Dear Tweeters,

While doing my Bellingham CBC area this year, I came
upon a Spotted Towhee (token bird reference) and a
very strange boat. My quesetion is about the boat!

This ruined hulk sits in a junkpile near the
Bellingham School District's maintenance yard. This is
at the south end of Bakerview Valley Road. This road
accesses a small industrial park just SE of the corner
of Hannegan and E Bakerview, and lies north of SR 542.


At first I thought it was an old airplane. The boat
had a twin tail as on certain old cargo planes. On the
tail fin was the inscription "CH-NCH." I thought it
might have been Swiss-made, since "CH" means
Switzerland. Googling produced nothing but references
to some chemical that has a similar formula.

The boat was a ferry. It has buslike seats in it. It
would have carried fifty to maybe a hundred
passengers. The cockpit had some rusted old
helicopter-like controls in front of the right-hand
seat.

What is interesting about this craft is the
propulsion. Back aft is a big, circular fan of some
sort. The fan is about eight feet in diameter and
still rotates on its axle, which axle is perpendicular
to the earth. I reckon the big fan would have raised
the boat up in the manner of a hydrofoil.

Does anybody in Tweeterland know anything about the
history of this craft?

Yours truly,

Gary Bletsch


Yours truly,

Gary Bletsch

near Lyman (Skagit County), Washington

garybletsch at yahoo.com



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