Re: seating positions in Beckfoot rowing boat


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Posted by Rob Boden on December 14, 2008 at 21:50:41 user humyar.

In Reply to: Re: seating positions in Beckfoot rowing boat posted by Andrew Craig-Bennett on December 14, 2008 at 18:50:23:

I happened to have the Windermere Steamboat Musuem's brochure on my desk, for another reason, when I read this. Glancing through it I came across their exhibit of Breatrix Potter's rowing boat from 1890 which she used on Moss Eccles Tarn. My memory of this in the Museum was of a very crude structure built from wide planks, perhaps even virtually a right angle between the sides and the floor. The brochure says it was 15' 6" (4.65m) and 4'9" (1.45m) beam. Their drawing shows two rowing positions and four main thwarts, with a fourth in the bows and a fillet that maybe could perch on in the pointed stern. Almost a heavyweight, rough, canoe in fact.

I would see this more as something Mary Swainson or Mr Jackson would have had access to, rather than Captain Flint. The brochure shows much more sophistocated small boats available around that time (though, as befits a steamboat museum, these were all powered in one way or other). I suppose I also wonder if a type of boat used on a tarn would have been OK on the much larger lake.

Rob



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