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Buffalo Maritime Center is a maritime museum and a collective woodworking and handcrafts center in Buffalo, NY that focuses on boat building and restoration to engage the community. It encompasses a museum displaying historic ships and displays about the history of shipping on the Great Lakes and New York state canals, a boat-building program ...
Penn Yan Boat Company, which produced a wide range of wooden and fiberglass powerboats, sailboats, canoes and rowboats, [1] was founded in 1921 by German-native Charles A. Herrman. [2] It derived its name from the location of its headquarters, Penn Yan, New York . [ 2 ]
Henry B. Nevins, Incorporated. Henry B. Nevins Incorporated was wooden-hull yacht builder in City Island, New York founded in 1907 by Henry B. Nevins. Nevins was a master yacht builder and author on vessel construction who apprenticed at the island's Charles L. Seabury & Company. [1] Later he purchased the nearby Byles Yard to increase his ...
Day Peckinpaugh is also the last surviving ship from a fleet of more than 100 of her type that once carried freight from the upper Midwest to the port of New York City. [ 5 ] At a length of 259 feet (79 m) and width of 36 feet (11 m), she is among the largest boats to operate on New York's canal system where the maximum area available for ...
Headquarters. Camden, New Jersey, U.S. The New York Shipbuilding Corporation (or New York Ship for short) was an American shipbuilding company that operated from 1899 to 1968, ultimately completing more than 500 vessels for the U.S. Navy, the United States Merchant Marine, the United States Coast Guard, and other maritime concerns.
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Purdy Boat Company. The Purdy Boat Company, of Port Washington, Long Island, New York was one of the most famous makers of custom yachts and racing boats in the 1920s and 1930s. [citation needed] The name "Purdy" evokes a bygone era of classic race boats and cruisers custom designed and built by James Gilbert Purdy's sons, Ned and Gil Purdy ...
Menger Boatworks. Menger Boatworks was an American boat builder based in Babylon, New York on Long Island. The company specialized in the design and manufacture of fiberglass sailboats, particularly catboats and character boats. [1][2] The company was founded by William Menger in 1976. Hs son Andrew Menger also worked there and contributed to ...