Grace Darling (III)

In 1923, Inkster built a larger, heavier barge measuring 30 ft. x 12 ft. x 3 ft., capable of hauling twelve tons. A custom built Turner boat, 20 feet in length with a vertical towpost stepped amidship, was ordered from Vancouver. The C.P.R. delivered it to Okanagan Landing on a flat car. This boat was also named “Grace Darling”, after the then retired Pease boat. It was powered by a single-cylinder Easthope engine built for towing. The new “Grace” soon gained a fine reputation as a first rate rough-water vessel. This vessel was well over forty years old and still going strongly in the late 1960s. One night during a storm her mooring lines let go and this vessel broke up on the rocks in Inkster’s Bay.