Wednesday, November 20, 2024
Heading to Buffalo, we stopped at the
Finger Lakes Boating Museum in Hammondsport, NY.
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In the Motorboat Gallery: Miss Buena Vista is a
1928 Ceestepper (canvassed cedar) by Penn Yan |
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Miss Buena Vista was the 2016 overall winner in
The Great Wine Country Classic Boat Race |
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| A 1910 Fay & Bowen "Special" with a cypress hull |
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| The "Special" is for high class picnicking |
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| Restoration Shop for smaller boats |
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In the Steam Boat Gallery: painting of the steamers Urbana,
Holmes, and Halsey awaiting the launching of Mary Bell
at Hammondsport in 1892 (1975, by Ray Blowers) |
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| Model (by Steve Harvey) of the 1882 Holmes |
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The first aircraft carrier, the Lon Springstead, a steam freighter,
carried the Red Wing, the first aircraft built by Alexander
Graham Bell's Aerial Experimental Association; the plane
had skids to use frozen Keuka Lake as a runway, and the
freighter was used to reach the frozen part of the lake |
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The Under Renovation "gallery" had
miscellaneous items such as this diving
helmet (by William Jacob Pilgrim, using a
water heater tank) (KSS) |
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| Children's Area |
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| Personal Flotation Devices |
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A model of a steam boat pulling multiple
barges headed for the Eire Canal |
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| Canoes Gallery: 1955 Penn Yan "Scout" Canoe |
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| Morehouse Boat Company "Rowboat" |
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| The Coffey SimulatOar, a rowing trainer |
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Wightman Hall display of outboard engines:
1952 Mercury "Hurricane" |
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| 1961 Mercury Merc 110 |
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A 1939 boat mold for Skaneateles Boats, Inc
"Lightning" model |
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Wightman Hall had a section called The Lake,
with an example of a lake cottage |
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The Lake had several boats "in the water,"
including this 1951 Penn Yan "Swift" |
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| 1941 Wright "K-Boat" #130 |
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The Boating Museum is housed in the former
Taylor Wine company buildings, and
have kept up the barrel room in the cellar |
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| The Taylor Room is also in the cellar ... |
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| ... along with the Admirals' Room |
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| A mural, I assume, of Keuka Lake |
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Building #9 houses the Trout Boats, along
with silhouettes of lake fish |
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| Ben Reno rowboat |
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Lamp for night trout fishing, where the light attracts
plankton and smaller fish who attract predator trout |
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Building #10 has Large Motor Boats and
Sailboats, including this ice boat
built for speeding across the frozen lake |
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| Cut-outs of many gull species |
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Shrike is a 1914 Fay & Bowen "Custom"
made with mahogany plank |
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| Inside the Shrike |
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| 1948 Thompson Brothers Manufacturing Company "TVT Lake" |
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| A look into the Thompson boat |
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