Might want to talk to Dayton Sherrouse at the Augusta Canal museum, they had
some really nice flat canal boats built

Maris


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Subject: Re: [MUSEUM-L] Flat Boats

On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Jay Martin <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Do any of you know of a working flat boat representative of early- to
mid-nineteenth century river travel?
>
> I'm particularly interested in ones in the southeast on display on land or
in the water.

The Alexandria Seaport Foundation used to have a working dory boat that was
common in the area for the early-mid 1800s. I don't know if they still have
the boat but it's the boat on their logo. They also build little skiffs,
which I assume were also common boats.
http://www.alexandriaseaport.org/index.htm

The Calvert Marine Museum also has a collection of flat bottomed boats. They
can tell you which ones were common for your time period.
I assume all of them were since the styles have been around for at least a
couple of hundred years:
http://www.calvertmarinemuseum.com/ships_and_boats.htm#Collection

The Reedville Fisheman's Museum might have some more information as well,
though I don't think their boats are flatbottomed.
http://www.rfmuseum.org/

Hope this helps!!

Deb Fuller

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