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Schooner Lois McClure |
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The Schooner Lois McClure is a replica of an 1862 sailing freighter. This type of sailboat would travel Lake Champlain, and then drop her masts, raise her center-board and become a canal barge, suitable for towing through the Champlain Canal, and then later, sail the Hudson River to New York City.
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This Schooner has an unusual steering gear. Here we see the wheel is mounted directly on top of a tiller. When the wheel was turned, the entire mechanism would swing side-to-side along with the rudder.
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Schooner Lois McClure sits at the pier in Brockport, NY. She is owned and operated by the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, and offers free tours at many ports.
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Back in 1862, crews lived aboard the boats, so to give that live-aboard look, undies typical of the time period are hung on a clothes-line across the deck.
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The Lois's rudder partially folds up for use in the shallow canal system. Her companion tug, C.L. Churchill is tied alongside.
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A view of some of the Lois's cargo hold.
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2014: Tug C.L. Churchill pushing the Lois McClure up the Fort Edward Yacht Basin Channel.
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2014: Schooner Lois McClure with her masts down, being pushed by Tug C.L. Churchill approaching Lock C-7 in Fort Edward.
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http://www.lcmm.org/our_fleet/lois_mcclure.htm |
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