In Ireland the Howth 17 was designed by Sir Walter Boyd in 1897, and is the oldest one-design racing keelboat in the world. A keelboat is technically any sailboat with a keel —as opposed to …

Keelboats were the boat of choice to carry valuable produce, such as whiskey and pelts, to market in the early Ohio and Mississippi River Valleys. Unlike boats previously used on the …

As its name suggests, the keelboat was constructed around a rigid timber in the center that could withstand collisions. Generally longer than the flatboat, the keelboat carried a sail on top of its …

The keelboat departed Fort Mandan on April 7, 1805 and arrived in St. Charles on May 20; it pulled into St. Louis on May 22. There is documentation that shows the keelboat continued on …

Dec 21, 2021 · Between 1837 and 1839, four Cherokee detachments utilized eight keelboats for their journeys to Indian Territory Keelboats took their name from their construction— long, …

Aug 3, 2015 · The keelboat is an almost forgotten piece of Americana — but once it was the king of river transport on the American Frontier. Back before the railroads and before steamboats …

Lewis and Clark's keelboat was built as a galley in Pittsburgh in 1803 for the Lewis and Clark Expedition, after detailed specifications by Meriwether Lewis. [1] [2] A keelboat, it could be …

Aug 1, 2024 · A keelboat crew included a patron or captain, bosseman or assistant patron, and twenty voyageurs who pulled the boat up river by means of a 300-yard cordell rope attached to …

John Melish (1771-1822), a Scotsman who moved to America early in the 1800s, and published the first important traveler’s guide to the republic in 1812, described the new keelboat, “so …

Keelboats were long, narrow craft, usually about seventy-feet in length, though the first keelboats used by explorers and fur traders were smaller. They had a keel providing stability, especially …