 The original "Popeye", a boat holding up to 20 passengers, was built for Gordon Stanley Watts, a Gallipoli veteran, by Harold Lounder in 1935 in one of several workshops which were then dotted along the banks of Torrens Lake.She proved so popular that in 1939 a second boat, "Miss Centenary", was purchased, which had previously run cruises at Glenelg.She did not however (according to the local legend) gain the same acceptance with the children, who preferred to "wait for "Popeye"", prompting Watts to re-christen her "Popeye II".