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Author : Kenneth Durant,Helen Durant
Publisher : International Marine Publishing Company
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1980-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0877421250
Author : Stephen Sulavik,Edward Comstock (Jr.),Christopher H. Woodward
Publisher : Bauhan Pub
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 0872332608
The definitive guide to the history and makers of Adirondack guideboats
Author : Michael J. Olivette,John D. Michne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Adirondack guide-boats
ISBN : 0971306990
Author : Hallie E. Bond
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1998-08-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0815603746
Adirondack history is a tale written o~ the water. In the Adirondacks, people have traveled, conducted warfare, hunted and fished, gone to church, proposed marriage, and driven logs in, on, from, or by water. Without boats, small and large, Adirondack history—social, recreational, commercial, and environmental—would be an affair entirely different from what we have come to know. In this lavishly illustrated account, Hallie E. Bond presents a history of these boats—canoes, sailboats, power launches, outboards, and the indigenous guideboat—that figure prominently in the overall history of the Adirondacks. The pre-contact Indians paddled dugout and bark canoes; in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries these craft were joined by skiffs and bateaux. Between 1820 and World War II, a distinctive tradition of boat building developed, culminating in the famous Adirondack guideboat. As the nineteenth century progressed, a variety of small, fresh water, musclepowered boats was produced in the Adirondacks—an assemblage matched by only a few places in the country. There were the canoes and the men that made them famous—John Henry Rushton and Nessmuk—and the guideboats and their builders—H. Dwight Grant and Willard Hanmer. In the early twentieth century, the development of the internal combustion engine irrevocably changed not only boat use and design, but life and leisure in the Adirondacks. Bond skillfully captures the whole panorama of boats and boating in the Adirondacks, from early dugouts and bateaux to the highpowered inboards that won Gold Cup races on Lake George and the Kevlar pack canoes of today. Drawing on her experience as an historian and Curator of Collections and Boats at the Adirondack Museum, Bond places events and trends of the region in the context of national and international history and describes the significant contribution of the Adirondacks in the early twentieth-century development of recreation and travel in America. Boats and Boating in the Adirondacks also includes a descriptive catalog of boats from the museum's own collection with nearly two hundred illustrations in addition to those in the narrative, a list of boatbuilders active in the North Country before 1975, and a valuable glossary of terms.
Author : John Michne
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1986147959
The Adirondack guideboat has survived for well over a century as a unique regional classic, first as a workboat in the rugged Adirondack mountain region of New York and later as a recreational craft. It is noted for its graceful lines, elegant curves, easy and speedy rowing, and for having a very high ooh-ahh value among casual observers. It may be easily built by accomplished amateur and professional woodworkers alike. In this book, John Michne explains, in his usual excruciating detail with wisps of wit here and there, how you can replicate a guideboat exactly as if it had just rolled out of an Adirondack boat shop a century ago. Built from laminated spruce ribs and covered in narrow edge-glued strips or traditionally planked in pine, it is a woodworker's dream challenge. Making every part of the boat (except the oarlocks) is detailed in 25 chapters, with over 270 shop photos and six appendices, including 16 pages of detailed dimensioned drawings by John Gardner, courtesy of Adirondack Experience. As an additional bonus, there are 12 full-size CAD drawings included at no extra cost via download. These drawings of ribs, seats, oars, and more eliminate the need for the builder to spend many hours doing tedious manual lofting even before starting construction.
Author : Gordon Fisher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0980125820
Author : Atwood Manley
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1977-08-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0815601417
This is the story of J. Henry Rushton, a native of northern New York State who became world famous as a builder of canoes. He and his craft were at the center of notable events in canoeing history in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Rushton was born in 1843 in a small settlement on the edge of the Adirondack wilderness. In his thirties, seeking to cure himself of "consumption" in the mountain air, he built a boat for a trip into the woods. Tradition has it friends asked Rushton to build boats for them, too, and his career was started. Rushton was fortunate in his patrons. In 1880 he was approached by the outdoor writer, George Washington Sears, better known by his pen name 11Nessmuk.'' A frail man, Nessmuk asked Rushton to build him an exceptionally lightweight canoe. Nessmuk's solitary tours of Adirondack waterways in the 10 3⁄4-pound Sairy Gamp set a new trend in sports life. His letters in the journal Forest and Stream did much to popularize unguided travel through the wilderness and to spread Rushton's fame. Many illustrations, including two previously unpublished sketches by Frederic Remington, help tell the story here. Five appendixes include Rushton's catalog descriptions of his construction methods; a reprint of an article by Nessmuk, an account of the Rushton canoes extant today, drawings and specifications of seven of these extant canoes, and a lengthy discussion by Harry Rushton of his father's methods of craftsmanship.
Author : Kenneth Durant,Helen Durant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Adirondack Mountains Region (N.Y.)
ISBN : 0686752791
Author : Nick Schade
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2008-11-14
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0071643370
The first comprehensive book on stripbuilding almost any type of small boat Strip-planking is a popular method of amateur boat construction, but until now there has never been a book that showed how to use it for more than one type of boat. Author Nick Schade presents complete plans for three boats of different types (canoe, kayak, and a dinghy) and shows you step-by-step how to build them. Written for all amateur builders, the book covers materials, tools, and safety issues.
Author : Mac McCarthy,Henry McCarthy
Publisher : WoodenBoat Books
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0937822396
Using the Wee Lassie as an example, the author opens your eyes to the natural beauty around you. A practical and beautiful craft, this lightweight and strong double-paddle canoe will carry you to waterways that are inaccessible in most boats.
Author : Susan Thomas Smeby
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0738509698
In the northwest corner of the Adirondack Park lie Cranberry Lake and the village of Wanakena. This remote area was the last-settled part of New York State; from the mid-1800s to the early 1900s, its name evoked the very essence of wilderness. Initially, sportsmen, naturalists, and artists flocked to the area. By 1900, summer tourism was booming. The logging industry followed, to harvest the virgin timber; after that, the state purchased the mostly cleared lands. Today, seventy-five percent of the lake's shoreline is state owned, and the Five Ponds Wilderness, south of Wanakena, is one of the largest and wildest areas in the Adirondacks.
Author : Christine Jerome
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105009800868
The author follows a trip through the Adirondack Park taken a century earlier by George Washington Sears.
Author : Mystic Seaport Museum,Maynard Bray
Publisher : Mystic Seaport Museum
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Reference
ISBN : UOM:39015011860239
Maynard Bray was Director of Mystic Seaport's preservation shipyard when he compiled this catalog of 220 craft in the museum's collection. Each boat is described and illustrated, and valuable bibliographies are included for further reading. An appendix contains sample plans of 24 of these watercraft, from dinghies to large vessels. This second edition includes a listing of 124 additional craft acquired between 1977 and 1985. The only book of its type, Watercraft is of particular interest to boatbuilders and maritime scholars and traditional small-boat enthusiasts.
Author : John Gardner
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781493068326
The dory has seen duty as a fishing boat, lumberman's batteau, lifeboat, recreational rowing boat, and racing sailboat. The most comprehensive book about dories ever published, this is at once a history of the dory, a practical handbook on dory building, and a compendium of 23 dory designs with full construction details. The author, a longtime contributor to National Fisherman, and the illustrator, Sam Manning, are perhaps the foremost experts on the subject. A steady stream of letters and photographs to the late John Gardner from successful dory builders worldwide has been testimony to the widespread popularity and influence of this book.
Author : Anne Labastille
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1991-10-11
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780140153347
Ecologist Anne LaBastille created the life that many people dream about. When she and her husband divorced, she needed a place to live. Through luck and perseverance, she found the ideal spot: a 20-acre parcel of land in the Adirondack mountains, where she built the cozy, primitive log cabin that became her permanent home. Miles from the nearest town, LaBastille had to depend on her wits, ingenuity, and the help of generous neighbors for her survival. In precise, poetic language, she chronicles her adventures on Black Bear Lake, capturing the power of the landscape, the rhythms of the changing seasons, and the beauty of nature’s many creatures. Most of all, she captures the struggle to balance her need for companionship and love with her desire for independence and solitude. Woodswoman is not simply a book about living in the wilderness, it is a book about living that contains a lesson for us all.