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Chris Smith built his first wooden boat in 1874 at the age of 13. [1] Years later, he built a duck hunting boat. His friends liked the way he built them, and they asked him to build them one. This was technically the start of the boat company. He soon began to build more boats and joined his brother Hank in 1881 to begin producing boats full-time.
On March 6, 2012, Yamaha announced it had sold Century Boats back to an American company, Allcraft Marine, based at Dawson Drive, Dade City, Florida. Most assets with the exception of the Panama City plant were included in the sale. To continue Century Boat's history and quality construction, the new owners updated the firm's boats.
The Dutch coxed pair at the 1977 World Rowing Championships, Evert Kroes and Peter van de Pas with coxswain Poul de Haan in the bow. A bowloader or bow-coxed shell is a racing shell (a type of boat used in rowing) in which the coxswain lies semi-supine in the bow, as opposed to the normal seated position at the stern.
A full list of United States Navy LSTs.The Landing Ship, Tanks (LSTs) built for the United States Navy during and immediately after World War II were only given an LST-number hull designation, but on 1 July 1955, county or Louisiana-parish names were assigned to those ships which remained in service.
New York Central Railroad Tugboat 13 was a railway tugboat built in 1887 in Camden, New Jersey by John H. Dialogue and Son.The tugboat was built for the New York Central Railroad to push barges, called car floats, carrying railroad cars and other freight across the waterways of New York Harbor.
Vermont Route 232 (VT 232) is a 13.548-mile-long (21.803 km) state highway located in Caledonia and Washington counties, Vermont, United States. The route begins at a junction with U.S. Route 302 (US 302) in the town of Groton and runs north to a junction with US 2 in the town of Marshfield .
State Route 232 (abbreviated SR 232) is a 9.41-mile-long (15.14 km) state highway located in Oxford County in western Maine. It begins at SR 26 in Woodstock and ends at U.S. Route 2 (US 2) in Rumford. The highway functions as an eastern bypass of SR 26 and US 2 in Bethel, providing a more direct north-south connection to and from points east.
The Schweizer SGS 1-23 is a United States Open and Standard Class, single-seat, mid-wing glider built by Schweizer Aircraft of Elmira, New York. [2] The original "standard" 1-23 was introduced in 1948. [3] The aircraft quickly became the most numerous competition and performance sailplane in the USA.