Lake Otsego: cruising Cooperstown. (Cooperstown, New York)

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From: Trailer Boats
Date: 19980201
Author:Armitage, Dan

A boating enthusiast describes his cruising experiences at the Lake Otsego in Cooperstown, NY. The cruise consisted of both site seeing and fishing as the lake shore were dotted with famous and old landmarks.

Immortalized as "Glimmerglass" by James Fenimore Cooper and situated next to the Baseball Hall of Fame, this beautiful lake in the Catskills hits a home run with trailer boaters.

Our audience of non-boaters looked hungrier for free entertainment than for the baskets of fried food set before most of them. Several among the dinner crowd gazed at us through the plate glass window ...

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