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Lake Champlain Maritime Museum

Rowing Gigs

Vermont Family Forests provided the wood from one of its well-managed forests, Hannaford Career Development Center provided the labor, and the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum provided the know-how. See the beautiful results of this collaboration for yourself. Read more about VFF's involvement in LCMM's Gigs Program in Vermont Life magazine's Spring 2002 issue and Northern Woodlands magazine's Summer 2001 issue.

 

 

      

Vermont Family Forests Director of Family Forestry David Brynn brings students from the Hannaford Career Development Center into a VFF-certified forest to learn about forest health and measure the White Pine that will yield lumber for their boat-building project. The result? A 25' Whitehall-style gig for four rowers and a coxswain, which they named Eclipse and launched on May 26, 2005.

 

Lake Champlain Maritime Museum's Longboats Program, directed by master boat builder Nick Patch, has used VFF white oak and white pine to build its last two longboats, including Triton, being launched here on May 23, 2002.

VFF-affiliated logger Bill Torrey fells a white pine from Ron and Karen McEachen's 43-acre woodland
to build the Redwing, a 32-foot Scilly Isles pilot gig.

Students from the Hannaford Career Development Center row the Redwing, which the students constructed
at the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum and launched in May, 2001.

The Redwing, which LCMM now offers for public use through its Community Rowing Club. VFF lumber has been used in two pilot gigs thus far.

Read more about: Rowing Gigs at the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum web site.