By Benjamin Mayock, Champlain Longboats coach and coxswain As you might remember last summer, thanks to our Community Rowing club, …
Building the Adirondack Guideboat
By Charlie Beyer, Champlain Longboats Assistant Director I’m writing this with my feet still damp after taking our newly finished …
Moving Thoughts to Action
By Susan Evans McClure, Executive Director As we grapple with systemic racism, police violence, and the legacy of slavery unfolding …
A Salute to our Graduating High School Senior Rowers
By Nick Patch, Champlain Longboats Director This spring has been a spring like no other and it has impacted us …
The King’s Shipyard Archaeological Project Series – Part 1: Historical Context
By Daniel E. Bishop, PhD Student, Nautical Archaeology Program, Department of Anthropology, Texas A&M University Hi folks – Cherilyn here …
Jahaziel’s Two Worlds: The Hudson River and the Champlain Valley
By the Collections Team at Lake Champlain Maritime Museum Preface: This is the eighth story in a blog series about …
Working from Home: Boat Shop Volunteers Are Keeping Busy!
By Nick Patch, Champlain Longboats Director As you’ve probably been following our updates, the Museum’s boat shop team has been …
A Window on the Lake – Meditations on Lake Champlain by Poet Daniel Lusk
By Eloise Beil, Director of Collections As this showery month of April comes to an end, it also means National …
International Smuggling by Steamboat: Jahaziel’s Congress
By the Collections Team at Lake Champlain Maritime Museum Preface: This is the seventh in a blog series about Vergennes …
Caring for your Canal Schooner in the Winter (and sometimes during a pandemic)
By Evan Wing, Replica Fleet Coordinator Winter, 1870, Whitehall, New York: you rise early to bank up the fire in …