Where to See Sailing Canoes: Museum Collections

Detail of Rushton Vesper model sailing canoe at Adirondack Museum.
Photo by Daniel Miller.

Gleaned from the MSCA Union List of Watercraft.
  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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