Thomas Dolman Shorts was a Canadian sailor, and one of the early captains on the Okanagan Lake.
[2] Ruth Shorts was a 22-foot-long (6.7 m) rowboat that could make a roundtrip from Penticton to Okanagan Landing in nine days.
Captain Shorts had no schedule; he left when he wanted or when there was enough people to make the trip worthwhile.
Meanwhile, Shorts took the engine from the Jubilee and attached it to a scow and called his new creation the City of Vernon.
After only two years of operation, Shorts and Ellis sold the Penticton to Leon Lequime of Kelowna for five thousand dollars.