Do you recognize the kinds of boats these are? Does the location look familiar to you — or any of the landmarks? When do you think this old postcard dates to?
Here’s what the community had to say:
Dianne Lansing: I know, I know….they are sailboats!
Christine Herrmann: Not sure what kind of sailboats, but they are gaff rigged.
Can you identify the boats as a more definite type of sailboat? The model/kind might help identify the year. Although I’m guessing that’s it’s sometime in the first half of the 1900s.
Do you think that’s the Split Rock area in the background?
The caption reads: ” Scudding slong under full sail, Lake Champlain, NY”. Is “slong” a sail term? Or do you think that should be along and is a typo?
Below is the backside of the postcard. Not much there as it was never sent. It just tells us the postcard was published by Arthur Livingston.
Vintage Postcard: Scudding slong under full sail, Lake Champlain, NY (Back) (Source: Geo Davis via Rosslyn Redux)
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The Hudson River Historic Boat Restoration & Sailing Society owns a 1903 Raceabout, gaff-rigged racing sailboa, the “Eleanor”, that was once owned by Henry Livingston of Oak Hill on the east side of the Hudson River across from Catskill NY. He used to take the boat up to Lake Champlain through the canal to attend races. The sailboats in the postcard look similar. My guess would be the 1930’s.
The Hudson River Historic Boat Restoration & Sailing Society owns a 1903 Raceabout, gaff-rigged racing sailboa, the “Eleanor”, that was once owned by Henry Livingston of Oak Hill on the east side of the Hudson River across from Catskill NY. He used to take the boat up to Lake Champlain through the canal to attend races. The sailboats in the postcard look similar. My guess would be the 1930’s.