The Fairmile....
...that was in Toronto was eventually bought by Howard Hughes and the entire hull was fibreglassed, It is now a houseboat on Lake Erie. The Sarnia one was used as a tour boat there for many years and is now being refurbished, There is another at Black Creek Marine on the North Shore of Lake Erie. It is beached and used for storage. The Collingwood one disappeared to parts unknown. It too was a tour boat. There is another sunk in Georgian Bay. For the real enthusiast two are in the breakwater on the North shore just west of the Burlington Bridge.
Finally the Dundas Fairmile was cut up and burned by the Cadet Corps using it in 1965. It was just beside the Dejardins Canal.
Peter Simundson
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