Saratoga Lake

My first nitro, I had a Johnson 115 on it.

My son and I were on Saratoga Lake.

and running to the upper end and we were almost to the south end and all of a sudden my i heard something and i started getting all this vibration in my steering wheel so i automatically cut the throttle and he goes what was that i said i i don't know i need to shut this off and figure out what's going on i trimmed the motor up and i threw a blade on the prop from metal fatigue a blade came off So I had two blades, and even though it was my first nitro, I did have enough knowledge at that point to know I can't run it like this because I'll blow out the seals from the vibration because the prop isn't balanced anymore.

So I said, we're going to need a tow.

American Scenery, Volume 1 by Nathaniel Parker Willis.

Saratoga Lake A singular feature of American scenery is the great number and beauty of its small fresh-water lakes, from one mile to twenty in circumference, fed universally by subjacent and living springs, with outlet rivers which carry off all that is superfluous, and with shores always richly fringed with foliage and oftenest hilly and picturesque.

They lie in the midst of the wild forests like silver mirrors, tranquil and lovely, mingling a refinement and an elegance with the bold character of the scenery, which contrasts like Una with the cochant lion.

Most of them are feeders to the great lakes and rivers.

They are counted fifteen which send their waters into Lake Ontario from the side of New York alone, a fact which gives a fair idea of their numbers, while it shows the resources so difficult to conceive of those vast plains of water.

Saratoga Lake must depend for celebrity on the campaigns of General Burgoyne and its fish dinners.

Of the first, the history has been written and read.

Of the last, the traditions are oral.

Yeah

... on Saratoga Lake.

Yep.

Let's talk about that.

Yeah.

And, uh, I was like, "Oh, that'd be cool.

I wanna get my captain's license," you know? So I, um, got my captain's license, and actually would take out the big boats on Lake George, the Horicon and the Adirondack, and, uh, and I wanted to start kinda my own thing, and I, I was trying to find somewhere that didn't, n- you know, had that need, and Saratoga Lake had really nothing going on.

So I started with a, just my l- 16 or a 22-foot pontoon boat doing nine-person charters, taking people out, and take people around the lake, and kinda show them Saratoga Lake, and tell them about, you know, what made this an attraction.