Wooden Boat Foundation
www.woodenboat.org
Commercial Vendors - 2008 Wooden Boat Festival
Adirondack Guideboats
http://www.adirondack-guide-boat.com
Adirondack guide boats are light fast and responsive. They're shaped like pure sculpture and they're going to become far
more popular shortly mark my words. To many of us they are simply the sweetest rowing craft around and your Rovings
writer has rowed a broad sampling of craft from boxy paint floats and Avon Red Crests to Maine peapods Whitehalls and
wherries to shells and working Grand Banks dories - plus a lot of boats I've forgotten. I haven't forgotten a friend's
Adirondack guide from years ago. These boats are not well known very far from upstate New York where they were
developed by nobody knows who about 150 years ago. Locals in what was then really a wilderness crafted these boats of
burden to haul "sports" into the wilds to hunt and fish. Wealthy city slickers had discovered the Adirondack Mountains as a
place for manly recreation - but not too manly. They didn't want to row themselves around. Built to easily haul two men,
their gear, two dogs and a deer, they take surprisingly little energy to row great distances. When solo and sitting still take
one strong stroke of a 70 lb. guide boat's bendy overlapping oars. The acceleration is startling the speed attained
surprising. Built cleverly to be strong and burdensome they were easily carried through the woods on one man's
shoulders. They still are. (from "Professional Boatbuilder")
Air Head Products
http://www.airheadtoilet.com
Air Head Environmental Toilet: Unique urine diverting design has provided legendary performance for boaters use in all
conditions for over 7 years now. Whether you are weekending it or full time cruising the Air Head will deliver unmatched
capacity odorlessly elegantly.
American Rope & Tar
http://www.tarsmell.com
Marine supplies: Le Tonkinois Varnish Stockholm Tar Leoflex-x rope tarred hemp marl