was a good sailing lake. They used the front porch of Bishop's Boat Livery and Marine Supply near the Eli Lilly estate as their first meeting place and dock their boats. Currently the club sails E-Scows, Lightnings, and Sunfish class boats in three regattas held from June through early October. Angler's Cove Angler's Cove was a surf and turf restaurant and bar located on N. Ogden Park Road, Ogden Island. The restaurant was popular with boaters in the late 1950s through 1970s and accessible from the channel on the west side of Johnson's Bay. A&W Root Beer stand From the 1950s through the early 80's, Jack's A&W Root Beer Stand on E. Pickwick Drive adjacent to the bridge over the main channel and on the east side of the channel. This root beer stand was accessible by boat and car serving standard hamburger stand fare. At the time, just the A&W, Angler's Cove, and Waco had food available by boat. The A&W is now The Channel Marker Restaurant. Boating on Wawasee Early boating on Wawasee Steamboats The Anna Jones, a steam tug named after Abram B. Jones' daughter, was purchased in Chicago in the mid-1880s. It was brought to Wawasee via the B&O Railroad and unloaded at the channel between Syracuse Lake and Wawasee. It was then cut in half and a center section added making it roughly 40–45 feet in length. The Anna Jones II, a steam yacht was purchased by Abram Jones about 6 years after the Anna Jones. Capable of holding 100 people, it was the largest boat to ever ply Turkey Lake. The Gazelle, brought to Wawasee in 1885 was another steam powered yacht with screw propeller and size of about with no sail rigging. Sailboats The Anita was a sloop built by Higgins & Gifford of Glouschester and owned by Walter Nordyke. The La Cigale and sister boat Margaret were designed by Dr. Harry S. Hicks of Indianapolis and were built in the barn behind the Jones Hotel. They were the first flat bottomed scows on Turkey Lake. The Keflin, the lakes first fin keel sailing yacht was built behind the Jones Hotel. Its unique feature was a torpedo shaped ballast of several hundred pounds on the keel's end. It was said to be impossible to capsize the Keflin. The Mary Louise was a large sail cabin yacht having the largest sail area of any