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| Detail of Rushton Vesper model sailing canoe at Adirondack Museum. Photo by Daniel Miller. |
The listing format is:
Name Length Builder Built
Penobscot Marine Museum (Searsport, ME)
Vesper type 16' Rushton 1915
Antique Boat Museum (Clayton, NY)
Vesper type 12' Rushton Adelanta 16' 1" ....... 1893 -- 12' 10" A. Bain & Co. -- 15' 10" Lakefield Canoe Co. -- 15' Ruggles -- 16' 9" Rushton
Peabody Essex Museum (Salem, MA)
Urchin 12' Underwood 1880 (ACA Sailing Canoe) Also, photo collection from 1880-90s ACA meets.
Adirondack Museum, (Blue Mountain Lake, NY)
Nomad 16' Rushton
Diana 14' Rushton 1882-85
Wasp 16' Stevens
-- 16' Rushton 1903-06
-- 16' Rushton 1893-1900
-- 13' 1" Rushton
-- 13' 1" Rushton? or 1880-83
Spaulding?
New York State Historical Association (Cooperstown, NY)
Holds the American Canoe Association Historic Picture Collection, including material from such noted canoeists as C. Bowyer Vaux and W.P. Stephens.
Marine Museum of Upper Canada (Toronto, ONT)
We4 16' Gilbert Motor Co. 1910-15
Bruce Mines Museum (Ontario)
Yakaboo 17' W.F.Stephens & 1900-1910 (rudderless) Frederick Fenger
Museum of Yachting (Newport, RI)
Theta 20' P. Ellam (early ULDB design)
The Mariner's Museum (Newport News, VA)
Little Sunshine 15' 6" James Everson (Shadow model) Much Quicker 16' H. Lansing Quick
Maine Maritime Museum (Bath, ME)
Whynyms 18' 5" James Bernier 1897
Mystic Seaport Museum (Mystic, CT)
Kestrel 15' attr. W.P.Stephens 189
Argonaut 16' Rushton 1910
(Vesper model)
Mermaid 16' W.F.Stevens 1923
& Gilbert
Bee 16' W.F.Stevens 1890
& Paul Butler
Teal II 17' Max Anderson (Sweden) 1953
Foam 17' 1" Uffa Fox 1938
& Seth Persson
Doris 17' 1" Peterborough Canoe Co. 1905
Skitch 17' 2" Willits Bros. 1937
Patsy Green 16' 3" Robertson
Blackbird 20' ACA Class A canoe 1930
Nomad model 16' 4" Rushton
Rob Roy type 12' ....... 1880
-- 15' 2" sailing canoe
-- 15' James Everson
-- 15' 11" Canadian Canoe Co.
-- 13' Rushton
-- 17' Max Anderson (Sweden)
-- 17' 1" Louis Whitman 1970
-- 18' 6" Starling Burgess
-- 11' 8" attr. Old Town Canoe Co.
See also:
Half Moon 18' 3" Akester, Barlow, 1930
(canoe yawl) & Salisbury
-- 16' 8" Klepper (Germany) 1936
(folding canoe or kayak
Oriole 15' 1" Delaware ducker
-- 15' Delaware ducker
-- 14' 10" Delaware ducker
Maritime National Historic Park (San Francisco, CA)
-- 19' 3" sailing canoe
Lake Champlain Maritime Museum (Vergennes, VT)
-- Rushton
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