Article: Ahoy! Old boats sail again: Boat show, featuring a rare Penn Yan, part of Harveys Lake Homecoming Festivities.

Byline: John Davidson

Aug. 13--HARVEYS LAKE -- When Harold Snowden was a teenager in the 1950s, his chief mode of transportation at his family's house on Harveys Lake was an 18-foot, solid mahogany Penn Yan motorboat. His sister and brother used it too; it was the family boat.

But after Snowden and his siblings grew up and moved away, the craft was sold and he all but forgot about it. Some 40 years later, Snowden said he got a phone call from a friend who had found the rare, 1950-model Penn Yan in the barn of antique boat collector Earl Lewis.

"I said ayou've got to be kidding,' but it was the very same boat," Snowden said. "The serial number matched. It was in ...

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