A guideboat built by William Vassar of Bloomingdale between 1900 and 1910
L: 15' 1 1/2" B: 39" Weight: 64 lbs
This boat is in the collection of the Adirondack Experience
"This guideboat demonstrates all of the construction characteristics typical of a William Vassar built guideboat including a full supporting piece under his well- known strip deck models, his characteristic "half-moon" stem posts; and his stern, pointed up at the middle of the 5th strake scribe rib, with ledge, (to support the stern seat cleat). Vasser built 100+ guideboats."
Used with permissionBorn: February 1866
Died: September 8, 1951
Married:Julia Fortune Vassar
Children: William Walter Vassar, Jr., Jessie Jane Vassar Brown
William Walter Vassar, Sr. was a guide boat builder in Bloomingdale.
