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Dugout canoe. A dugout canoe or simply dugout is a boat made from a hollowed-out tree. Other names for this type of boat are logboat and monoxylon. Monoxylon ( μονόξυλον) (pl: monoxyla) is Greek – mono- (single) + ξύλον xylon (tree) – and is mostly used in classic Greek texts. In German, they are called Einbaum ("one tree" in ...
The Chesapeake Bay deadrise or deadrise workboat is a type of traditional fishing boat used in the Chesapeake Bay. Watermen use these boats year round for everything from crabbing and oystering to catching fish or eels. Traditionally wooden hulled, the deadrise is characterised by a sharp bow that quickly becomes a flat V shape moving aft along ...
The Corps of Discovery departed from Camp Dubois (Camp Wood) at 4 pm on May 14, 1804. Under Clark's command, they traveled up the Missouri River in their keelboat and two pirogues to St. Charles, Missouri where Lewis joined them six days later. The expedition set out the next afternoon, May 21. [40]
Pirogue Island State Park is a public recreation area on an island in the Yellowstone River, two miles north of Miles City, Montana.The 269-acre (109 ha) state park has 2.8 miles (4.5 km) of designated hiking trails and, according to the Montana Department of Tourism, "[w]ildlife viewing, fishing for sauger, river floating, and Montana moss agate hunting are popular activities."
Culture. [edit] Canoes were developed in cultures all over the world, including some designed for use with sailsor outriggers. Until the mid-19th century, the canoe was an important means of transport for exploration and trade, and in some places is still used as such, sometimes with the addition of an outboard motor.
Pirogue. Group of pirogues at sunset on the river bank of Don Tati, Si Phan Don, Laos. A pirogue ( / pɪˈroʊɡ / or / ˈpiːroʊɡ / ), [ 1] also called a piragua or piraga, is any of various small boats, particularly dugouts and native canoes. The word is French and is derived from Spanish piragua [piˈɾaɣwa], which comes from the Carib ...
Waka ( Māori: [ˈwaka]) [ 1] are Māori watercraft, usually canoes ranging in size from small, unornamented canoes ( waka tīwai) used for fishing and river travel to large, decorated war canoes ( waka taua) up to 40 metres (130 ft) long. The earliest remains of a canoe in New Zealand were found near the Anaweka estuary in a remote part of the ...
John Gardner (1905–1995) born in Calais, Maine, USA; was a historian of water craft, a writer, a labor organizer, and a designer and builder of wooden boats. Education [ edit ] Gardner graduated from Calais Academy, Maine, in the class of 1923; [1] he studied to be a teacher at Machias Normal School, Maine ; and obtained a Master's Degree ...