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Lake Stewards Prepare for Adirondack Boating Season

May 21, 2020 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Adirondack Watershed Institute Lake StewartPaul Smith’s College Adirondack Watershed Institute will be providing free boat inspections and decontamination starting Memorial Day weekend at nearly 100 locations across the region to help the public stop the spread of aquatic invasive species. [Read more…] about Lake Stewards Prepare for Adirondack Boating Season

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Nature, Recreation Tagged With: Adirondack Watershed Institute, boating, DEC, Invasive Species, nature, Paul Smith's College, Wildlife

An Adirondack Guideboat Returns to Long Lake

August 25, 2019 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Colleen rows the boat on Long Lake by Alexandra RoalsvigCharles Bryan, in The Raquette, River of the Forest (1964), argued that Long Lake played a major role in the development of the Adirondack Guideboat.

That legacy got a local revival recently, when Long Lake resident Colleen Smith re-launched a guideboat on Long Lake built there by her grandfather George W. Smith in the early 1900s. [Read more…] about An Adirondack Guideboat Returns to Long Lake

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, History Tagged With: Adirondack Park, Adirondacks, boating, Long Lake, paddling

New Book On Lake George Speedboat “El Lagarto”

December 18, 2018 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

El LagartoA new book by Jon Bowers, Legend of Lake George “El Lagarto” and the Men That Made Her Great, is set to be published in the next few weeks, and is now available for pre-order.

Bowers says the book “sets record straight” on the story of the famous wooden Lake George speedboat owned by George Reis. Bower’s grandfather, Anderson “Dick” Bowers, was the mechanic who worked with and for Reis over the lifetime of El Lagarto. [Read more…] about New Book On Lake George Speedboat “El Lagarto”

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Books, History Tagged With: boating, Book Notices, Books, Lake George, Warren County Historical Society

Annual Tugboat Roundup In Waterford This Weekend

September 4, 2018 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Harvey with Dazzle paint jobThe annual Waterford Tugboat Roundup is set for this weekend, September 7-9, with an estimated 30 boats expected to attend. The boats range from historic to modern tugs, workboats, fireboats, crew boats, tenders and more.

A main attraction of the Roundup will be the new paint job of the Harvey. This historic fireboat became itself a palette for Tauba Auerbach, an artist commissioned by the Public Art Fund and 14-18 Now Exhibition. The rendering of the Harvey shows contradictory directions of whites and reds, emulating the ‘dazzle designs’ applied to ships during World War I to confuse U- boats in firing torpedoes. [Read more…] about Annual Tugboat Roundup In Waterford This Weekend

Filed Under: Events, History, Western NY Tagged With: boating, Erie Canal, Maritime History, Waterford, Waterford Tugboat Roundup

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