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The boat that

started it all!

During a storm in 1934, a small lifeboat from a passing
freighter washed overboard and came ashore at the east
end of Port Credit village’s Cumberland Drive. Young
Ted Schofield found her, rigged her with a mast,
centerboard, rudder and sail, naming her Arrowhead.
The 16’ sailing dinghy attracted the attention of other
young men in the neighbourhood and soon a group of
men raced their boats and kept them moored on cans
and tires in the Port Credit harbour. For a while the local
men, including Bert Bradley, George Cousins and his sons
Charlie and Howard, Edward (Ned) Green, Jack Macmillan,
Jack Morch, Percy Oke and Ted Schofield met as a group
at Jack Morch’s boathouse on Cumberland Drive.

Arrrowhead – The Boat that Started it All!
Ted Schofield and daughter Edna sailing Arrowhead off the
beach at Cumberland Drive, Port Credit.

6 The 1930s