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Thompson Hiawatha model canoe. The Thompson Brothers Boat Manufacturing Company of Peshtigo, Wisconsin was a manufacturer of pleasure boats and canoes.Founded by brothers Peter and Christ Thompson in 1904, [1] the company became prominent in the field and built boats for nearly one hundred years. [2]
Cajune Boats is a custom manufacturer of wooden drift boats in Montana. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was established as Montana Boatbuilders in 1996 in Whitefish, Montana . [ 2 ] The business is owned by Jason Cajune and the paddle fishing boats, including the Kingfisher, are produced near the Yellowstone River . [ 3 ]
The skiff with a sail has developed into specific sailing boats bearing the name "skiff". In Sydney, the term was used for a number of racing classes (sizes from 6 ft to 23 ft have existed). These were originally heavily crewed and canvassed boats that were relatively short for the canvas and crew carried and were developed from working boats ...
A schedule of ship's boats of 1886 shows 34 to 30 feet (10.4 to 9.1 m) cutters pulling 12 oars, 28 feet (8.5 m), 10 oars, 26 to 20 feet (7.9 to 6.1 m), 8 oars and the two smallest sizes of 18 and 16 feet (5.5 and 4.9 m), 6 oars. The smaller boats could be single banked whilst the larger and later examples were generally double-banked. For ...
The Minto skiff eventually got stored in Bob's barn, where his friend Heine Dole, a NW marine architect, saw it and convinced Bob it would make a great dinghy reproduced in fiberglass. Heine took the skiff to Ed Hoppen, the Gig Harbor boat builder who was the original builder of the popular Thunderbird sailboats. After cutting out about two ...
The Sea Bright Skiff is a box-skegged skiff developed on the northern shore of New Jersey. It was used for fishing, by being launched through the surf, sailed to the fishing grounds, and returned through the surf .
The Jersey Skiff is a boat that was once popular for sport fishing in the United States. [1] They were introduced by fishermen on the Jersey Shore , and were originally designed to be launched from the beach through the surf, so they could tend their fishing nets offshore.
A skiff is any of a number of types of small boat. Skiff may also refer to: Skiff (company), seller of e-reader content; Skiff (email service), an email service; Skiff, Alberta, a small hamlet in Canada; 2554 Skiff, an asteroid; R-29RMU Sineva, a Russian submarine-launched ballistic missile