Gundalows plied the waters of the Piscataqua River.  The Gundalow Company
runs one and Paul Rollins Boatshop, of York, Maine, will be building another
at the Strawbery Banke Museum.  He would know of other flatboats in use or
existence.

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Of Maris Ensing
Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2011 2:16 PM
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Subject: Re: [MUSEUM-L] Flat Boats

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

Maris


-----Original Message-----
From: Museum discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
Of Deb Fuller
Sent: Friday, January 07, 2011 1:12 PM
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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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