The smallest sailing scows were sloop -rigged (making them technically a scow sloop), but were otherwise similar in design. The scow sloop eventually evolved into the inland lake scow, a type of fast racing boat.

2024年8月2日 · Scow Sloop LITTLE MARTHA African Americans played a vital role both before and after slavery as skilled captains and boatmen on the Hudson River. Built circa 1870 to carry lumber, Little Martha was captained by African American Clint Williams and his two brothers. They were described by sloop historians Collyer and Verplank as “capital ...

2024年8月8日 · Built circa 1870 to carry lumber, Little Martha was captained by African American Clint Williams and his two brothers. They were described by sloop historians Moses Collyer and William Verplank in The Sloops of the Hudson (1908) as “capital boatmen.”

Archaeological analysis and comparison of known scow schooner wreck sites helps to answer questions about the specifics of scow features on the Great Lakes and how they differed from scows around the world.

2016年11月25日 · The Scow-Sloop This most unusual sailing vessel began to appear on the Great Lakes around 1825. The scow-sloop was a shallow draft sailing ship having a single mast, flat bottom, and a squared off bow and stern. The combination of the scow shaped hull and the sail plan of the sloop is what made this ship very unusual. Hence the name Black Duck!

2023年10月25日 · There has been a raft of new sailing scows announced this year, with the cruising market following the racing world in design philosophy.

2025年1月24日 · Scow sloops and schooners were more easily and inexpensively built than their fully-molded counterparts. The shallow draft boats were surprisingly good sailers and appeared on the Hudson River, Lake Champlain, the Great Lakes and San Francisco Bay where they remained in use well into the 20th century.

2016年11月26日 · The Black Duck is a one-masted ship known as a scow-sloop, a type of boat that was not typically used for Great Lakes travel, as its small size made it vulnerable to the...

2016年11月25日 · The Black Duck, found on the bottom of Lake Ontario, was a working boat called a scow-sloop, few of which operated on the Great Lakes.

We focus on the last remaining Laguna Madre Scow Sloop (La Tortuga) and its construction process to give insight into the assembly of one of the most prolific nineteenth to mid-twentieth century south Texas fishing vessels.